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Ipswitch Announces Ipswitch WS_FTP Server 6 With SSH

(June 12, 2007)-- Ipswitch, developer of network monitoring, messaging and managed file transfer solutions, announced the immediate availability of WS_FTP Server 6 and WS_FTP Server 6 with SSH. As the market is driven towards secure managed file transfer solutions, Ipswitch has enhanced and expanded its acclaimed WS_FTP Server offering to deliver industry-leading security, auditing, high-availability and remote administration capabilities, all of which are vital to organizations seeking to protect data, audit file transfers and automate file transfer processes. WS_FTP Server 6 offers a highly secure and flexible way to manage users and maximize file transfer speed for companies of all sizes, worldwide.

"Keeping our customers' information and documents secure and compliant with all regulations is essential in our line of business," said Rashpal Bains, senior B2B analyst, Teleplan International. "With the unrivaled advanced security and logging capabilities of Server 6 with SSH, we are able to keep track of all necessary documents and transfer critical business data easily and with assurance that no sensitive information will be compromised."

WS_FTP Server 6 delivers powerful enterprise-level security, granular administrative control over server access and user permissions, event-driven automation, robust logging capabilities for auditing and compliance, and best-in-class performance and reliability -- all with an easy to use Web-based user interface. It scales to a virtually unlimited number of user accounts and concurrent user connections, and supports FTP, SSL and SSH protocol connections. Advanced features include strong password policies, guaranteed file integrity, clustering and load balancing architecture and more.

"Today's organizations who are focused on file transfer and security are increasingly relying on SSH to move and share critical and sensitive data. Overall, the industry's vision of what a secure file transfer solution needs to be is quickly moving towards Managed File Transfer (MFT)," said Frank Kenney, research director, Gartner, Inc.

By offering SSH as well as the FTP-Based SSL file transfer protocols, Ipswitch WS_FTP Server 6 delivers advanced security during file transport with encryption and strong authentication. It assures the FTP user that the server they are communicating with has a particular identity and the content of the exchange is private and secure. SSH is the native file transfer mode of UNIX-based operating systems, including Linux, and Ipswitch's windows-based implementation enables cost-saving standardization and consolidation of FTP and SSH servers.

WS_FTP Server 6's security and logging capabilities exceed compliance and corporate governance requirements and enable company policies, vendor requirements and customer expectations for secure file transfer. Some of the regulations that WS_FTP Server enables compliance with are Sarbnes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI DSS, BASEL II and J-SOX.

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