IT Security Technology: IT Security in the SOA Era

Managing the IT infrastructure is already a tough challenge for today’s enterprise IT managers. Overseeing multi-faceted networks with many operating systems, applications and communications protocols can be extremely complex and time-consuming.

Now, many organizations are increasingly migrating toward a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment. While SOA offers several benefits, including helping organizations respond faster to changing market conditions, and reducing costs and risks, it isn’t without its share of challenges. For example, some newly implemented SOA systems aren’t flexible enough to meet growing business demands or may fail to produce a synchronized architecture, which is required to sustain various application connections and to support organizational data sharing.

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Product News - Recent SSH Tectia Software Updates

Several SSH Tectia software updates have been released recently. We encourage you to review the contents of these new releases to ensure that your SSH Tectia security solution stays current, and provides the best possible performance and functionality for your environment!

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Tips and Tricks: The ssh-broker-ctl tool

The SSH Tectia G3 architecture introduced a new client-side component, the Connection Broker, that runs as a user-specific process and takes care of all the actual connections the user makes with sshg3, sftpg3, and scpg3 clients, as well as the GUI client on Windows. The Connection Broker also acts as an authentication agent, replacing the old ssh-add2 command.

Most of the time when you use the sshg3, scpg3 or sftpg3 clients, you do not need to know what is happening under the hood. But if you use multiple keys or tokens for authenticating to different servers, or if you have several connections open and want to keep track of them, you might want to check the detailed status of the Connection Broker. This is where ssh-broker-ctl tool comes in handy.

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Popular Documents at SSH Resource Center

• White Paper: Centralized Security Management in Heterogeneous Networks
• Case Study: Top International Retailer Standardizes on SSH Tectia to Secure Customer Transaction Data
• Technical Note: User Authentication Methods

Events and Webinars

Come and see us to hear the latest news and interesting ways to use and apply SSH Tectia at the following upcoming events:

• September 12: Tokyo, Japan: PCI DSS Solution Seminar
• September 17: New York, NY, USA: IDC-Kahn Consulting, Inc. Compliance in Information Management Forum: Best Practices in Data Protection, Records & Information Management, and e-Discovery
• September 18: New York, NY, USA: IDC Security Summit: Mastering Information Protection and PCI
• September 30 – October 1: Las Vegas, NV, USA: SANS Network Security 2008

Webinars will be held on the following dates:

• September 18, 8:00 UTC (11:00 Helsinki, 13:30 New Delhi, 16:00 Singapore/Kuala Lumpur/Beijing): “Securing File transfers in Heterogeneous Networks – the Easy Path”
• September 24, 2 times at 14:00 British Summer Time and 11:00 Pacific Daylight Time: “SSH Tectia Solution Overview”
  
  >> Please see the SSH Events Calendar for Webinar registration – dates and times are subject to change

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