Are you willing to…
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Risk the compromise of sensitive data over wireless networks?
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Buy new SSH servers and maintenance?
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Limit SSH security to PART of your connection?
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Blindly adhere to a “trust us”, unproven security presumption?
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Trust data to an security protocol with no industry know criteria?
Non-standard Terminal Emulation solutions have chosen to ignore proven, peer reviewed, industry standard security protocols when transmitting your corporate data over a wireless networks. Are you willing to risk your security on a proprietary security system? What if the solution has not been peer-reviewed? What if the provider attempts to mislead you into believing they are using a standard security protocol over the wireless network?
A recent survey estimated the cost of a retail corporate security breach at $6.6 million (largely due to lost business), providing further evidence that wireless security is a topic that begs careful consideration.
As you can see, other solutions terminate the SSH session on the same physical server where the terminal server lives, so customers don’t benefit from the extra security of SSH at all. They then relay the terminal session to the client using proprietary communication. This is a dubious solution. Can your organization trust a 3rd party client to store and transfer sensitive data? Further, how and what are these security parameters based upon? Competitors offer a proprietary “trust us” approach whereas Wavelink relies upon SSHv2 − the respected, open and peer reviewed security protocol.
With Wavelink TE, there are no additional components required to use an SSH session, but to get a secure SSH environment with other “solutions”, organizations must purchase additional SSH servers. Yet, even in the case of purchasing this additional SSH server, there is no guarantee that the information transmitted is using industry standard SSH protocols due to its proprietary, “trust us” nature and the fact that the SSH connection is virtually terminated.
The choice is yours: Can you afford to risk the security of your wireless enterprise on an unproven encryption model or, like 90% of major retailers in the world on over 3,000,000 devices, will you trust the security of your wireless Terminal Emulation application to Wavelink? Leaving your company’s security in the hands of an untested, non-standard Terminal Emulation product could cost you plenty.
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