F-Secure SSH to be Incorporated in Cisco Service Provider Products

Espoo, Finland, June 1, 1999 - Data Fellows, one of the world’s leading developers of anti-virus and encryption software, has announced that Cisco Systems has licensed the SSH protocol for use in Cisco service provider equipment. This protocol is used in Data Fellows' award winning F-Secure SSH products.

The new agreement is a direct response to the requests of customers of both companies for integrated solutions which would tie together Cisco's router products and the SSH protocol.

F- Secure SSH provides proven, ICSA-certified end-to-end security between the client workstation and any server or Cisco router running the software. The software offers strong authentication and encryption based on industry standard algorithms such as 3DES, IDEA and Blowfish, as well as data privacy for all data transmission. All data, including the initial user ID and password, exchanged between the Client and Server flows securely through an encrypted tunnel.

“F-Secure SSH has become de facto standard for secure remote administration, maintenance and management of crucial corporate resources such as firewalls, routers, switches, web servers and mail gateways,” says Petri Laakkonen, President of Data Fellows Inc. “By bundling the software with leading router solutions, Cisco and Data Fellows will make remote maintenance and administration of mission-critical network resources much more secure, affordable and easier to adapt even to most distributed global organizations.”

“The integration of the SSH protocol into Cisco IOS Software for secure remote administration is a significant feature for the Service Provider market and complements our end user security strategy based on IPSec,” said Elizabeth Kaufman, general manager of the Security Internet Services Unit at Cisco Systems, Inc.