April MeetUp: SSH Inventor Tatu Ylonen on Secure Connectivity in the Age of IoT
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Hey Security of Things MeetUp members. Our April MeetUp is just a few days away and we have an amazing speaker lined up: Tatu Ylönen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatu_Yl%C3%B6nen), the inventor of Secure Shell (SSH) and CEO of SSH Communications.
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As a researcher at Helsinki University of Technology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_University_of_Technology), Finland, in the mid 1990s, Tatu designed the first version of the protocol (now called SSH-1) after encountering a password sniffing attack on his university network. Designed as a replacement of insecure protocols like Telnet, rsh and rlogin, SSH is now used to secure a dizzying array of Internet communications.
Tatu will be speaking to the group about how the advent of the Internet of Things is challenging (upsetting) the existing Internet trust model and about new approaches to scaling security - including secure communications - to IoT scale.
As always: pizza and soda are provided, courtesy of our generous hosts at Akamai. Networking starts at 6:00 pm. Presentations start around 6:30.
Feel free to contact me if you have questions: 617 817 0198