March 29, 2007
SSH Tectia Newsletter Vol.30 - SSH Tectia Client/Server Solution 5.2 Has Been Released!
SSH Communications Security >> http://www.ssh.com
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[ SSH TECTIA NEWSLETTER (VOLUME 30) ] < 29 March 2007 >
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- Product News (1) - SSH Tectia Client/Server Solution 5.2 Has Been Released!
- Product News (2) - SSH Tectia Client 5.2 and SSH Tectia Server for IBM z/OS
- Special Feature Topic - Shortcut Guide to Securing Automated File Transfers, Chapter 3 is now Available!
- Tips & Tricks
- Most Popular Documents at SSH Resource Center
- Trade Shows & Events
- SSH Headlines
- Subscribing & Unsubscribing to Mailing Lists
* Product News (1) – SSH Tectia Client/Server Solution 5.2 Has Been Released!
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SSH Tectia client/server solution 5.2 for Unix and Linux has been released and customers with a current maintenance and support agreement can download it from the SSH Download Center.
Version 5.2 has been optimized for memory consumption and speed, and it incorporates a significant number of new features requested by our customers. For further information please refer to the release notes at http://www.ssh.com/support/documentation/release_notes/
Please note that SSH Tectia solution for Windows platforms is planned for release at the end of April, 2007.
For more information on SSH Tectia client/server solution 5.2, please visit http://www.ssh.com/products/
* Product News (2) – SSH Tectia Client 5.2 and SSH Tectia Server for IBM z/OS
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SSH Tectia Client 5.2 introduces a number of new features that are of special interest to our IBM mainframe customers. The most significant use is the support for direct streaming of data, which improves data transfer speeds significantly while at the same time lowering the CPU load and I/O load on the mainframe. The new client also supports file sizes larger than 2GB and provides improved support for MVS data sets.
For more information, please visit http://www.ssh.com/products/client-server/features_benefits.html
* Special Feature Topic - eBook: The Shortcut Guide to Securing Automated File Transfers, Chapter 3 is now publicly available!
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Realtime Publishers, the leader in corporate sponsored ePublishing, and SSH Communications Security have released the eBook: “The Shortcut Guide to Securing Automated File Transfers”. The new eBook, authored by 24-year computing veteran Ed Tittel and exclusively sponsored by SSH, offers a consolidated explanation of the techniques that you need to know when choosing a technology or application for secure file transfer. Chapter 1 has been released in January, and Chapter 3 is now available as well! Chapter 3 is about securing file transfers.
Read more about how to download the eBook at http://www.ssh.com/campaign/ebook/promo.html
* Tips & Tricks: Automating FTP-SFTP Conversion on Unix
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If you have to secure your file transfers, but have got limited time or resources to make the switch, you should consider using the automatic FTP-to-SFTP conversion feature of SSH Tectia. This feature, which is part of the SSH Tectia EFT Expansion Pack, allows you to continue to use your FTP program of choice and more importantly allows you to use your scripts, batch files or programs without any modifications to them at all. Could this be any easier?
To enable FTP conversion in SSH Tectia Client with EFT Expansion Pack, you need to do the
following:
- Install the optional conversion tool in addition to the normal client components.
- Configure the Connection Broker to handle FTP connections (see the user manual
for configuration details).
On Windows, FTP-SFTP conversion is automatically active when the Connection Broker is running. On Unix, the ssh-convert-ftp command has to be run to activate the FTP-SFTP conversion.
For example, to start an FTP session to ftp.example.org with FTP-SFTP conversion enabled, run the following command:
$ ssh-convert-ftp ftp ftp.example.org
To start a bash shell session with FTP-SFTP conversion enabled for all commands, run the following command:
$ ssh-convert-ftp bash
One way to make the conversion activation automatic on Unix is to rename (or relocate) the ftp binary and use a script like the following in its place:
#! /bin/sh
exec ssh-convert-ftp renamed-ftp "$@"
Now, when a user runs the ftp command he is accustomed to, this script will be run instead, and the FTP-SFTP conversion is automatically activated for the FTP session.
Please note that the server side also needs to have the EFT Expansion Pack installed, and that the client needs to have the server's public host key before the connection can succeed.
* Most Popular Documents Available at SSH Resource Center
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** Compatibility Note: Secure TN3270 Application Connectivity
http://www.ssh.com/documents/50/SSHTectia_TN3270_CompNote.pdf
** White Paper: Selecting Secure FTP and Telnet Replacement - Minimizing TCO
http://www.ssh.com/campaign/ftpwp/newsletter.html
* Trade Shows & Events
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Upcoming events:
- San Diego, CA, USA: SANS San Diego, April 1 - 2
- London, United Kingdom: Infosecurity Europe, April 24 - 26
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Interop Las Vegas, May 22 - 24
* SSH Headlines
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March 20, 2007
SSH Annual Report 2007 has been published!
http://www.ssh.com/company/investors/financials/reports.html
February 13, 2007
SSH Communications Security Corp Wins Major Expansion Order from World-Leading US-Based Retail Chain
http://www.ssh.com/company/news/article/814/
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