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SSH Communications Security Oyj
Company typeJulkinen osakeyhtiö
Nasdaq Helsinki: SSH1V
IndustryCybersecurity
Founded1995 (1995)
FounderTatu Ylönen
Headquarters
Finland Edit this on Wikidata
Area served
Worldwide
Websitewww.ssh.com

SSH Communications Security Oyj (Nasdaq Helsinki: SSH1V) is a cybersecurity company focusing on encryption and access control.

According to the company, their products "secure privileged access, management of credentials (SSH keys and server passwords), and data-in-transit".[1] They focus particularly on SSH key management. One of the products of the company is PrivX On-Demand Access Manager, aimed at securing machine-to-machine communication in large organizations replacing permanent access keys.[2]

Their customers include many major financial institutions,[3][4] retailers,[5][6] and technology companies.[7]

The company was founded in 1995 by Tatu Ylönen, who designed the first version of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol and software[8], some parts of which are still today included in OpenSSH[9]. He continues to work for the company full-time. The current CEO is Kaisa Olkkonen.[10] The company has been listed on the Nasdaq Nordic since 2000.

References

  1. ^ "Products | SSH.COM". www.ssh.com. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  2. ^ Waterman, Shaun (2017-08-02). "SSH inventor analyzes tools the CIA wrote to exploit his protocol". CyberScoop. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  3. ^ "SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY RECEIVES A MAJOR NEW ORDER FOR UNIVERSAL SSH KEY MANAGER™". Nasdaq Globenewswire. 2016-04-26.
  4. ^ "SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY RECEIVES A SIGNIFICANT ORDER FOR UNIVERSAL SSH KEY MANAGER™ SERVICES FROM A MAJOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTION". Nasdaq Globenewswire. 2015-03-12.
  5. ^ "SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY RECEIVES A MAJOR NEW ORDER FOR UNIVERSAL SSH KEY MANAGER™". Nasdaq Globenewswire. 2016-10-28.
  6. ^ "Wal-Mart Selects SSH Tectia Solution to Secure Data-in-Transit". PR Newswire. 2007-08-15.
  7. ^ "SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY RECEIVES A SIGNIFICANT ORDER FOR UNIVERSAL SSH KEY MANAGER™ FROM A MAJOR GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY". Nasdaq Globenewswire. 2015-07-09.
  8. ^ Tatu Ylönen. "The new skeleton key: changing the locks in your network environment". Archived from the original on 2017-08-20.
  9. ^ "OpenSSH: Project History". www.openssh.com. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  10. ^ "SSH APPOINTS NEW CEO AND ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM". Nasdaq Globenewswire. 2016-12-30.
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