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Centrally Managed SSH
Problem
Many data centers are replacing unencrypted protocols such as telnet and ftp with Secure Shell (SSH). SSH uses encryption keys to identify users and hosts. Implementing SSH usually improves security, but can also introduce new, time-consuming management tasks such as:
- Managing the large number of keys needed to identify all the users and hosts
- Managing what hosts and users can be trusted in the network
- Managing SSH user permissions on each host
FoxT Solution
With FoxT, you can:
- Manage SSH encryption keys for all users and hosts from a central point
- Store encryption keys in a central database, so everyone knows what users and hosts they can trust
- Therefore each user can automatically acquire the public key of a target system (if approved by security policy). Other products have completely manual or semi-manual processes for key distribution that may conflict with your corporate security policies
- Centrally manage SSH user permissions so you can easily configure individual SSH services on any host
- Use external digital certificates with SSH
- Use FoxT or third party SSH client programs to securely access and transfer files from your desktop
- Fully compatible with other SSHv2 products
- Avoid many technical security exploits or weaknesses. Acquiring SSH based security policy dynamically from the BoKS manager has protected FoxT customers from many OpenSSH vunerabilities
Products
BoKS Access Control for Servers—Server-side managed SSH
BoKS Access Control for Servers—Client-side managed SSH
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