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SSH-Based Solutions - Looking for Industry Proof?

Posted by Cliff on from the open-source-is-everywhere-so-use-it dept.

mcwop asks: "My company's IT department is trying to set up secure FTP with a vendor. It would be set up on a Sun box (not running Solaris 9). I emailed suggesting they look at OpenSSH. The response I received stated that they don't like to use freeware, but only consider industry proven and supported software. I have found one commercial version at SSH. What other commercial versions are out there (I know Solaris 9 comes with SSH)? But more importantly, what are some commercial successes? What large organizations are implementing SSH?"

8 of 391 comments (clear)

  1. Ssh communications. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most businesses goes with SSH communications, www.ssh.com. They also have a low-memory-fotprint version, ipsec, tunneling software and some other stuff.

  2. F-Secure, SSH, or OpenSSH by edyu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Both SSH (Company) and F-Secure sells commerical products of SSH. But maybe if you word it differently, your management should accept OpenSSH since it is being used by many companies. My company (a smaller 100+ person) uses OpenSSH extensively.

  3. Data Fellows... by Helmholtz+Coil · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...has a version of SSH available for Unices, Windows, Macs, even the Nokia 200. Don't know how good it is, but they've got a fair amount of info on the site.

  4. Re:OpenSSH by questionlp · · Score: 5, Informative

    Solaris 9 does use OpenSSH for its "Solaris Secure Shell". They mention it on this page.

  5. F-Secure SSH by Medieval · · Score: 5, Informative

    F-Secure makes a rather kick-ass line of SSH products. We use them in production here (major tire manufacturer.), and it is FIPS 140-1 compliant. The client-side portion is pretty schweeeeeeet (esp the Windows client), even if you don't use the server portion.

    http://www.f-secure.com/products/ssh/

    List of platforms:

    Server
    All major Unix platforms; Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, BSD
    Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0

    Client
    All major Unix platforms; Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, BSD
    Windows XP
    Windows 2000
    Windows NT 4.0
    Windows 95
    Windows 98
    Windows ME
    MacOS
    Nokia 9200 Series Communicators

  6. Usage Stats by rwash · · Score: 4, Informative


    http://www.openssh.org/usage/index.html

    The OpenSSH team has put together a great page with a number of different usage statistics for SSH.

  7. Re:Client side by sql*kitten · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tera Term on Windows is the best.

    It's good, but I've switched to PuTTY, mainly because it can heartbeat an SSH connection with an empty packet every minute to prevent sessions being timed out by over-zealous firewalls - very convenient if you need to monitor several machines.

  8. SSH is the original by ddstreet · · Score: 4, Informative
    The SSH protocol was created by ssh.com, and in the past they have tried to stop openSSH from using the SSH name (see here and here and here). The SSH product from ssh.com was created before any SSH standard existed, and its protocols became the defacto way to communicate securely. It was (and according to the license agreement, still is) available for free (as in beer) for non-commercial and educational use. It's available at their ftp site or a mirror.

    If you want a "industry proven and supported" product that supports SSH protocols, then the original SSH is what you want, but you'll (obviously) have to pay.