SSH Communications Security U.S. President and CEO Opens New Boston Area Office To Strengthen Eastern U.S. Major Account Support
HELSINKI, FINLAND and LOS ALTOS, Calif. – Nov. 29, 2004 – SSH Communications Security Corp. (HEX:SSH1V), a world-leading developer of managed security middleware, today announced the relocation of its U.S. President and CEO George Adams to its new corporate office in the Boston suburb of Wellesley, Mass. Adams had previously led SSH’s U.S. subsidiary from its prior SSH U.S. headquarters site in Los Altos, California over the last 5 years. The Los Altos site will now serve as the sales and technical support center for the company’s customers in the western U.S. and Canada.
The new Boston office will allow SSH Communications Security to better serve its rapidly growing base of large accounts and key strategic partners in the eastern U.S. and Canada. The new location will also facilitate better communications and coordination for SSH’s U.S. and Finland-based sales, marketing, product development, technical support, finance, and administrative personnel, resulting in even better support for SSH’s customers and partners. The new SSH office is located at 20 William St. G35, Wellesley, MA 02481.
“Our Enterprise network security business has evolved to making Boston our logical new home base to help major eastern U.S. and Canadian financial institutions, government agencies and Fortune 1000 enterprises adopt and deploy our award-winning SSH Tectia solution to solve issues such as secure system administration, secure deperimeterization, application protection, and SOX 404 governance compliance, said Adams. “Silicon Valley was a good place for us to start our U.S. operations, and we will continue to serve our growing base of customers in the western U.S. and Canada from our Los Altos site.”
In addition to the Boston location, SSH Communications Security has offices in Helsinki, Finland; Los Altos, CA; Reading, U.K.; D??sseldorf, Germany; and Tokyo, Japan. SSH also has an extensive network of channel and technology partners throughout North America, Japan, Israel, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Africa, Australia, Italy, and Sweden.
About SSH Communications Security
SSH Communications Security is a leading provider of easy-to-use centrally managed data security solutions addressing the most critical needs of large enterprises, financial institutions, and government agencies. As the original developer of the widely used Secure Shell technology, SSH is also pioneering the managed security middleware market with its award-winning SSH Tectia solution. With SSH Tectia, organizations can cost-effectively protect their business communications against both internal and external security risks. Currently more than 100 of Global Fortune 500 companies are using SSH security solutions to secure their data communications. SSH shares are quoted on the Helsinki Exchanges Main List. For more information, please visit www.ssh.com.