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SSH Communications Security (HEX:SSH1V), a world-leading developer of Internet security solutions, today announced SSH IPSEC Express™ 5.0, adding enhanced functionality to its award- winning IPSec Toolkit family. SSH’s security toolkits, growing and evolving since February 1998, implement IPSec (Internet Protocol Security), IKE (Internet Key Exchange) and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) standards to bring strong, cryptographic security to IP-based networks. SSH IPSEC Express 5.0 enables OEMs and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to bring their IPSec-based security applications to market quickly with reduced development costs.

“SSH is committed to the continued advancement of IPSec technology and its ability to provide comprehensive security to IP-based networks", said Tatu Ylönen, president and CEO, SSH Communications Security Corp."With the newly added support and functionality of SSH IPSEC Express 5.0, SSH stays on the cutting edge of IPSec technology to provide OEMs and developers with the industry’s most comprehensive multi-platform IPSec-solution.

SSH IPSEC Express 5.0 delivers new features and functionality that include:

• Support for centralized management functionality based on the IETF’s (Internet Engineering Task Force) proposed standards on Common Open Policy Service (COPS) and Policy Information Base (PIB) to ease and simplify the distribution and deployment of security policies of the OEM’s end products.
  
  
• Support for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) to increase data transport reliability enabling the utilization of IPSec-secured IP networks for telephone network signaling traffic.
  
  
• Support for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) within PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) to simplify the authentication for secure remote access.
  
  
• Support for high availability functionality for Internet Key Exchange (IKE) through SSH IKE High Availability API (Application Programming Interface), providing improved redundancy and fault tolerance for reduced potential downtime.
  

About SSH Communications Security

SSH Communications Security, a world-leading supplier of Internet security solutions, offers a broad range of award-winning products designed to address the most critical security issues for businesses, financial institutions and governments worldwide. SSH's award-winning remote access software, SSH Secure Shell, the de facto standard for secure remote access and data transfer, and SSH Sentinel™, a feature-rich remote access VPN "smart" client are ideal solutions for securing wireline and wireless networks. The SSH Certifier™ product family provides a robust certification authority for flexible and strong authentication through digital certificates and tokens. The market-leading, award-winning SSH IPSec family of toolkits for OEMs and software developers enables fast time-to-market and reduced in-house development costs. SSH is traded publicly on the Helsinki Exchanges under HEX:SSH1V. For more information, please visit www.ssh.com.

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