Released on: June 3, 2008, 11:01 am

Press Release Author: Software Diversified Services

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: A complete cost-effective, and easily implemented security
solution for file transfer work in multi-platform environments.

Press Release Body: Software Diversified Services
763-571-9000, jplampi@sdsusa.com

For Immediate Release

SDS and SSH Collaboration Makes Secure File Transfer Easy to Implement and
Completely Monitored

Brooklyn Center, Minn., 3 June 2008

Software Diversified Services and SSH Communications Security Corp.
announced today their collaboration on a complete, cost-effective, and easily
implemented security solution for file transfer work in multi-platform environments.

Working together, the SDS FTP Manager (SFM) and SSH Tectia(TM) products will provide
easy, effortless, snap-in encryption and security for FTP, and automatic,
transparent FTP to SFTP conversion.
The solution requires no changes to JCL, data files, or application infrastructure.

SFM will provide native support for file transfers by the SFTP and SCP protocols
used by Tectia.
SFM\'s robust monitoring and auditing of SFTP and SCP file transfers--the secure
protocols used by the SSH Tectia Server-- will provide powerful oversight and
diagnostics, and comprehensive audit trails to ensure basic compliance with key
government regulations.

For transparent, automatic conversion of FTP commands and data to secure, encrypted
FTP transfers through an SSH tunnel, SFM version 2.0, due for release in
late-summer, will connect an IBM FTP client job on z/OS to the SSH Tectia Server.

From an intuitive GUI browser interface, users will be able to configure and control
file encryption for end-to-end FTP security in transit. Programmers will no longer
need to alter the JCL in every job that needs to encrypt a file transfer.

SFM further addresses FTP\'s security shortcomings by integrating the z/OS FTP server
with mainframe SAF security (RACF, ACF2, or TopSecret).
Administrators can selectively allow or disallow any individual user and/or FTP
command. They can allow read access to a dataset while preventing its off-site
transfer, for example, or allow transfer of sequential files but not JES files.

SFM\'s FTP Control Language (FCL) provides a unique tool for automating mainframe
batch jobs and associated file transfers, providing for logging and retry of failed
transfers, and automatic notification to operators when automated recovery fails.

Together, the SSH Tectia and SFM solutions increase the level of security for
enterprises conducting batch file transfers on the mainframe by combining robust
data security with advanced monitoring and management functionality.

SSH Tectia encrypts critical data and provides transparent FTP tunneling to ensure
that file transfers being monitored by SFM are no longer vulnerable to inherent
threats. The additional layer of security from SSH Tectia enables SFM users to meet
more stringent data security standards as required by government and industry
regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA),
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), and Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Additional advanced features of this file transfer solution include
checkpoint/restart, mid-file recovery, file-integrity checking, support for MVS and
USS file systems, automatic ASCII - EBCDIC conversion, interactive MVS dataset
listing, support for SITE commands, and SMF logging and auditing.

SSH Communications Security Corp. is a world-leading provider of enterprise security
solutions and end-to-end communications security.
Its founder developed the original Secure Shell protocol (SSH) and created the
company in 1995.

Software Diversified Services (SDS), founded in 1982, is noted for the highest
quality software, documentation, and technical support in the business. When you
call SDS technical support, you quickly reach an experienced authority with the
knowledge and power to solve your problem.

For more information, a free white paper, or a live demonstration by webcast, see
http://www.sdsusa.com/sfm, or write to sales@sdsusa.com

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