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Security

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Control Center needs the ability to pull account passwords from a corporate password manager/vault

Due to security requirements and best practices, passwords should be changed periodically and wherever possible, should not be stored on local systems in text/XML files, etc. Control Center should have an option to utilize external Password Vault ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1

Allow ICC to authenticate users via group membership (eg. using SEAS)

Typical enterprises do not define individual user accounts and groups to every application, as is currently required for ICC.Instead, user accounts and groups within an LDAP directory (such as Active Directory) are used and the applications recogn...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Future consideration

Control Center Certificate Expiration Warning Notification

The Certificate Expiration warning rule that comes with Control Center produces a warning if a Connect Direct Secure Plus certificate is going to expire within 60 days. However, there is no known notification for Control Center's certificate which...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 8 Functionality already exists

LDAP integration with Sterling Control Center

Sterling Control Center should be able to interface directly with LDAP to authenticate without the addition of Sterling External Authentication Server.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 3 Not under consideration

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center Support AD windows authentication method for SQL server database

To meet Industry security standards to authenticate to Enterprise Active Directory tool
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Inactivity user account control

Admin/User accounts within IBM Control Center cant be disabled/removed after a specified period of inactivity in compliance with the security procedure Risks: Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Certificate CRL check for Sterling Control Center

According to the RFC at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-6.3, certificate CRL validation needs to be provided by Sterling Control Center that uses x.509 certificates for TLS/SSL connections. We propose a local caching mechanism to be im...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

PMR 52649,7TD,000 - Unable to see Users and Roles under Access Admin Profile

SCC Admin group must be able to Manage Users and Roles but not have access to ANY other application configurations. Support advised that currently SCC only supports superuser role that has access to EVERYTHING or members can belong to a group that...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Security 0 Future consideration

Implement the use of LDAP without the need of IBM External Authentication Server

In order to implement the use of LDAP for authenticating to Control Center, it is a requirement to use IBM External Authentication Server. There should be a way of doing so without implementing another product that has be installed, configured, an...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration