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Poor security: Telnet, FTP and the rest

With billions of dollar of annual losses attributed to security breaches, organizations are under increasing pressure from auditors and shareholders to step up their security efforts. A 2007 study from a leading analyst company estimated the average cost per record to be in the range of $90 to $305 depending on the severity of the breach. FTP and Telnet are two protocols that find their origins back in the late 60's early 70's. Both suffer from several security issues but are still widely used by many organizations today because of their flexibility and their pervasiveness. Some of the security issues of FTP and Telnet are:

• Lack of data encryption: all data, including username and password, is transmitted in clear text over the network. Freely available packet sniffers such as Wireshark can easily listen to the communication and capture the user's credentials.
• No host authentication: FTP or Telnet makes no provision for man-in-the-middle attack during which an attacker sets a fake host in between the user and its original target server to capture and manipulate the data transmission.
• Absence of data integrity mechanisms resulting in the inability to trust the data being transmitted

Connectivity Secure Server

Connectivity Secure Server offers organizations a secure replacement to Telnet and FTP. Based on the Secure Shell 2 protocol and equipped with the FIPS 140-2 validated Hummingbird Cryptographic Module, Connectivity Secure Server comes with a strong set of security features to protect your data and network:

• Strong authentication: both on the client and on the server side
• Robust encryption: using the industry's latest cipher suites
• Trusted data integrity: with mechanisms to guarantee your data has not been altered during transit

Connectivity Secure Server comes with many functions and can be used for multiple purposes:

• Secure file transfer
• Secure remote administration
• Secure execution of remote tasks
• Encryption of network traffic
• 3rd party application data-in-transit security

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Unmatched Performances:

In January 2009, the Tolly Group, a 3rd party testing laboratory, released a report comparing the performance and TCO of Connectivity Secure Server and other solutions on the market.

From the report:

Here is the abstract of the report:"Open Text's Connectivity Secure Server outperformed secure shell servers from Attachmate Corp. and SSH Communications Security, delivering superior processing speed and scaling to support over 1,000 user downloads per server which enables it to deliver a cost of ownership unmatched by rival products tested."

"Open Text's Connectivity Secure Server consistently outperformed Attachmate Corp.'s Reflection for Secure IT Server and SSH Communications Security's SSH Tectia Server. In tests transferring a 36MB file from a server to a requesting client, Connectivity Secure Server completed the task 10X faster than SSH's Tectia Server and 24X faster than Attachmate's Reflection for Secure IT server."

Key findings:

• Complete single file transfer up to 24X faster than the other two competitors
• Delivers the highest performance and maximum scalability of the three secure shell server products tested
• Costs up to 12X less to support 1,000 concurrent SFTP connections than rival products tested
• Completes 1,000 SFTP file transfer sessions from four PC clients on a single server, while other servers tested failed to scale properly
• Imposes less overhead on host server CPU than other products tested
• Uses 9X less server CPU memory than other products tested to complete 36MB file transfer to client