Pragma Systems is the market leader in providing software for remote access and Secure Shell (SSH) software for Microsoft Windows platforms. They describe their FortressSSH software as a “fundamentally more secure way to retrieve remote management, file transfer and applications delivery across your network infrastructure.” But what does that mean, exactly?

The company my husband works for has salespeople, warehouses, and offices all over the world. They manage data using laptops, desktops, and handhelds. All of that information has to flow back and forth, files have to be transferred, and it has to be secure. When you or I download a plugin, for example, we use FTP or File Transfer Protocol to transfer files from another computer to our own. The information isn’t encrypted, which means that the files could be hacked and give someone access to our usernames and passwords-yikes.

What Pragma Systems offers is SCP, or Secure Copy Protocol for file transfer. It’s a fundamentally more secure way to allow someone like my husband to use remote access to get into a salesperson’s computer and fix a problem, and for the warehouse to upload the file with their performance data to the main office without exposing the information to hackers. Pragma Systems was founded in 1990, before most of us were even using the Internet, as a way to provide Fortune 500 companies with secure networking. Their products can be considered an excellent corporate solution to keeping networking secure.

I really hope that makes sense. My purpose with this blog is to make blogging and using the Internet seem less scary to “regular” people like myself. I’m not looking to write an industry-standard tutorial on SSH or SCP, but rather to de-mystify something that might seem hard to understand but really isn’t if it’s explained in a non-technical way. And, of course, to create some buzz for Pragma Systems