SSH Tectia Connector and Tunneling Expansion Pack for SSH Tectia Server have the following main features and benefits. For a detailed list of new features and enhancements in the latest versions, please read the release notes for SSH Tectia Connector and SSH Tectia Server.
Main Features & Benefits
| Transparent application tunneling | SSH Tectia Connector enables transparent application tunneling without the need to modify the tunneled applications. The main barrier for wider adoption of Secure Shell tunneling is eliminated, as there is no more need to reconfigure application client’s network settings with localhost addresses. When the connection is initiated by the application client, SSH Tectia Connector transparently captures the connection and establishes a secure tunnel according to the policy rules. |
| Fine-grained policy control | Administrators can freely define application security policies including rules to tunnel, allow plaintext, or block specific client-side application connections. The flexible configuration interface provides administrators with multiple ways of specifying the tunneled applications; applications can be identified according to destination address and/or port, application name, or location of the application client binary. |
| Centrally managed | SSH Tectia Connector and SSH Tectia Server with Tunneling Expansion Pack have been designed to be centrally managed with the optional SSH Tectia Manager product. Centralized installation, policy configuration, and monitoring enable highly cost-effective deployment and maintenance of secure application connectivity in heterogeneous environments. Read more about SSH Tectia Manager. |
| Broad application support | SSH Tectia Connector and SSH Tectia Server with Tunneling Expansion Pack can be used to tunnel any TCP-based user client/server application including both commercial application software and internal legacy applications. |
| Secure TN3270 connectivity | SSH Tectia Connector together with SSH Tectia Server for IBM z/OS allows transparent encryption of TN3270 application connections between Windows workstations and mainframes. Mainframe RACF passwords can be used for authenticating Secure Shell connections. Read more about SSH Tectia Server for IBM z/OS. |
| CryptiCore® encryption and authentication | The SSH G3 architecture and the high-speed CryptiCore® algorithms (Intel platforms) help in meeting performance requirements of large-scale application access scenarios. CryptiCore enables up to 600 Mb/s application tunneling throughput in 1Gb networks. |
