SSH to Offer SSH Tectia® Enterprise Security Solution with BalaBit Technology, Combining Advanced IT Security with Internal Auditing and Governance HELSINKI, FINLAND, WELLESLEY, Mass. and BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - May 18, 2009 - SSH Communications Security (HEX:SSH1V), a world-leading provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, today announced a partnership with BalaBit IT Security, a developer of specialized network security solutions. Under the partnership agreement, SSH will offer worldwide the SSH Tectia® Guardian security solution, based on technology from BalaBit IT Security, and be the exclusive OEM distributer for the product in the United States and the United Kingdom. With SSH Tectia Guardian, business critical servers can be protected and encrypted sessions audited and replayed for forensics purposes. SSH Tectia Guardian allows real-time interaction with enterprise Intrusion Detection System (IDS) or Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems to control encrypted channel usage. This joint effort addresses the unique security challenge of ensuring that encrypted and unencrypted traffic, such as SSH, Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Telnet, and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) can be monitored to meet the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), and other mandates, as well as internal and external IT audits. By leveraging best-of-breed technologies, SSH and BalaBit create a formidable enterprise IT security solution, delivering unparalleled data auditing and forensics capabilities to easily monitor all activities of internal or external power users and systems administrators. SSH and BalaBit will also collaborate on new products in the areas of system administration management, host access, and network security technologies to bring state-of-the-art governance, compliance and audit solutions to enterprise IT users. “Strict intrusion detection requirements have in the past prevented encryption usage in many critical environments. Now, however, with SSH Tectia Guardian, end-to-end encryption can be utilized between any hosts, without the threat of malicious use of encrypted channels,” said Tero Harjula, vice president, strategic partnerships of SSH Communications Security. “Together, SSH and BalaBit provide one of the strongest offerings for PCI compliance with an easy-to-deploy and scalable solution to protect, monitor and audit corporate file transfers and data in transit.” SSH Tectia is the leading end-to-end communications security solution for the enterprise. Providing transparent, strong encryption and authentication, SSH Tectia enables secure file transfers, secure system administration, and secure application connectivity with centralized management throughout internal and external networks. SSH Tectia Guardian provides an independent, fully transparent appliance that controls, monitors and audits remote administrative access to servers and networking devices, enabling oversight of server administrators by controlling the encrypted connections (SSH/SFTP and RDP), and Telnet, used in server administration. “To achieve reliable auditing of encrypted server administration, data collection has to be independent from the client and server, otherwise an internal or external malicious threat could easily compromise the network,” said Balazs Scheidler, CEO of BalaBit. “By combining our solutions, SSH and BalaBit bring a new level of security and reliability into encrypted traffic, and will help enterprises better mitigate risk, achieve accurate, real-time auditing, preserve the integrity of IT data, and more effectively achieve compliance with key regulatory requirements, including SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS and Basel II.” Since 2000, BalaBit has invested in research and technology development for network security, logging and technologies to enhance and monitor the SSH Secure Shell Protocol. BalaBit is widely known for its innovative syslog-ng. About BalaBit IT Security Headquartered in Budapest, BalaBit IT Security is a developer of special network security solutions satisfying the highest standards. The company is committed to open standards and is an active member of the open-source community. The syslog-ng system logging software, which is the main open-source project of the company, is the world's most widely used alternative syslog solution for the UNIX/Linux platforms. BalaBit has a leading role in the Hungarian market and the company has customers in North America, Australia and in several European countries. Visit www.balabit.com for more information. About SSH Communications Security SSH Communications Security is a world-leading provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, and the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol. The company's SSH Tectia solution addresses the most critical needs of large enterprises, financial institutions, and government agencies. With SSH Tectia, organizations can cost-effectively secure their system administration, file transfers, and application connectivity against both internal and external security risks. As the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol and other key network security technologies, SSH has since 1995 developed end-to-end communications security solutions specifically for the enterprise. Currently more than 100 of Global Fortune 500 companies are using SSH security solutions. SSH shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Exchange. For more information, please visit www.ssh.com. # # # SSH Corp. 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