
Obviously, SSH is powerful when you have physical access to the computer when talking about offensive, but always very reliable when talking about defense, so let's say it's an important piece of knowledge in security awareness field.įor example, you may want to use SSH to have an authentication process instead of netcat (that's not going to happen any time soon, right?) or, since SSH clients are very smart and useful, easily transfer files and browse them as you mounted the server on your desktop. SSH is mostly used in an Unix context, however running it on Windows can be very useful. Secure means that this network protocol makes use of cryptography, so that SSH servers and clients communicate trough a secure channel. SSH stands for Secure Shell and is the smarter and safer version of telnet. Probably, you already know what SSH means, but for those who don't: Probably SSH is not as clean and fast as other useful tools like netcat, but it has some features which are very useful, and when you'll need them, here's how to behave with that huge amount of computers all over your house.
