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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Add support for configuring password history in IBM Sterling Control Center to prevent reuse of previous passwords.

Currently, Sterling Control Center allows setting password length, complexity, and expiration rules, but does not provide an option to enforce password history. This feature is critical for strengthening security by ensuring users cannot reuse rec...

Enable Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) via Active Directory Integration for Sterling B2Bi/SFG

Currently, Sterling B2Bi/SFG relies on local group configurations for role-based access control (RBAC), which creates operational overhead and limits centralized governance. We propose introducing native integration with Active Directory (AD) to m...
4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Native Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Support in Sterling B2B Integrator for Enhanced Security

Currently, Sterling B2B Integrator relies on external components (such as SSP) or custom integrations to enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for internal and privileged users. This creates additional complexity and overhead for organizations...
4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio

Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio.

Enabel console logging on SSP and SEAS - Container base Deployment

Within SSP & SEAS helm chart Values we do not see any configurable option to have our SSP/SEAS Application level logs to be enable on POD console. For reference We have this option available in SI help chart "logs.enableAppLogOnConsole" this s...
12 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Private Key Authentication for JDBC Connections

Our current Sterling 6.1.2 is connecting to Snowflake DB using JDBC (Snowflake driver) with username/password authentication method. Now, due to security reasons, the Snowflake is enforcing private key authentication (.p8) instead of password. But...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

VDA standards missing in IBM ITX

After checking with IBM ITX Support, we confirmed that there is no out-of-the-box type tree available for the VDA Standard. We request that a VDA (German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie)) type tree be include...
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Submitted

Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Dynamic Date Range Filter in Scheduled ICC Reports

Description: We request an enhancement to IBM Control Centre(ICC) to allow dynamic date range filtering for scheduled reports—specifically, the ability to configure the Event Date/Time filter to automatically include data from the last X days(>...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Submitted