The Internet engineering community rebuffed one of its own security gurus this week, by rejecting a request from the inventor of the popular Secure Shell protocol to change the technology’s acronym to ...

In 1995, young Finnish computer scientist Tatu Ylonen invented the SSH data in-transit security protocol, or "Secure Shell" for short. His goal was to make it more secure for authorized users to ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Secure Shell (SSH) is a tool for ...

NIST released Interagency Report 7966 this week, a guidance document for organizations using the Secure Shell network protocol for automated access. NIST released a report yesterday urging enterprises ...

The Secure Shell (SSH) protocol and software suite is used by millions of system administrators to log into application and service accounts on remote servers using authentication methods that include ...

Without a centralized key management system, it is virtually impossible for a large enterprise to identify all the trust relationships within its SSH environment, leaving the company vulnerable to ...

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

The Internet can be a dangerous place, wrought with fraud and data theft. To help protect your small business data it's a good idea to have a basic understanding of secure Internet protocols. These ...