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Single Sign-on (SSO) with SAML or OIDC authentication is required for the Sterling User Interfaces (UIs), including C:D, SSP, SEAS, SFG, SCCM and SCCD. Migration from a legacy LDAP connection to a federated (SAML or OIDC) connection is required for all UIs, by US Federal Agencies.

This is required to comply with US Federal Security requirements mandated to all US Federal Agencies.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Delivered

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct

TLS v1.3 was recently released, and we would like to see it added to Connect:Direct w/Secure+ as an available security option for all platforms that support it.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Delivered

Connect:Direct Win/Unix Interface to Cyberark or other Priviledged Account Solutions

If a PAM-tool like Cyberark is in use, users don't have real logon-credentials for Windows- or Unix-Server any more; these are maintained by Cyberark.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Delivered

Password Vault Support for Connect Direct for Windows

IT Security forbids the use of static passwords and mandates that they are changed periodically.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Delivered

Certificate CRL check for Sterling Connect:Direct

It's not practical to use SEAS for certificate CRL check for Connect:Direct in a large enterprise environment where there are thousands of Connect:Direct nodes. Query-based CRL check via SEAS could greatly degrade the performance of Secure+ file t...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Delivered

ITXA - Excel Adapter is failing, in SI-ITXA-ITX Integration Environment

During Integration with B2Bi, ITXA makes references to B2Bi jvm classpath, whereas ITXA needs to be more fully defined in the class required and not rely on SI. ITXA class loader adjustments are required. We need a way to see what classes are bein...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct for HPE Nonstop Platform

It was mentioned in HPE NonStop Forum that TLSv1.3 will be coming out later 2019 year. It was also mentioned by HPE that TLSv1.0 is a degraded security protocol and that HPE NonStop Client Applications running on X86 and Itanium Platform need to m...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 7 Delivered

ITXA - Need SWIFT standards releases 2019-2022 and the ability for the TPUI to select the version in the STANDARD VERSION envelope parameter

SWIFT Network is validating from the 2021 Standards. Today, ITXA is only offering 2018 Standards compliance. SWIFT financial documents are exchanged by banks via the SWIFT Network vs going Peer to Peer to exchange. SWIFT Network requires the curre...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered

ITXA - SWIFT envelope creation for MT940 - Basic header block {1: field Session Number & Sequence Number are not created with a number value

Currently the Session number & Sequence Number are created with XXX and XXXXXX values which fails the Swift document.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Delivered

ITXA - SWIFT envelope creation for MT940 - header block {2: is being created with '1', however, the Delivery Monitoring field is optional and not accepted with PRIORITY = N via SWIFT Network testing

Currently the Trading Partner UI does not have an option of 2 or blank when the user selects the Normal Priority in the Swift Envelope. The Swift Network either accepts a value of 2 or blank.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered