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Support for token authentication

Some of REST APIs for IBM products have token authentication implemented. I.e., call a sign in API to get a token, and then use the token in a HTTP Header for all other API calls. Example Products: IBM Sterling Secure Proxy: https://www.ibm.com/su...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 3 Planned for future release

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Digitally Sign the Partner Invitation Emails and Subsequent Followup Notifications

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Partner Engagement Manager

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over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Planned for future release

Click to show Password

Within the out of the box onboarding activities the password is display in plain text. Instead, there could be text that says "Click to show password" and when clicked, the password is un-hidden.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Planned for future release

Use a whitelist approach to validate the file extension in /dsv/sponsor/module/fileManagement and /dsv/partner/module/fileManagement

The PEM is vulnerable to an unrestricted file upload on the path /dsv/partner/module/fileManagement/ and /dsv/sponsor/module/fileManagement in the parameter file. Through this vulnerability it is possible to upload a windows executable file that t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 3

Ability to add custom HTTP headers for PEM application

Due to security concerns, security team likes to have custom HTTP headers in all HTTP traffic. Request you to please add a new feature is to be able to configure HTTP header for PEM application. This is required to get CA signed certificates from ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Track Internal Users on PEM When PEM Registration Invite Sent to partner

Currently many users (MFT BA's & Engineers) are utilizing PEM, the number of users utilizing PEM may increase in the future. So there is a need to define a process or mechanism within PEM to track which internal EFX user is sending out new reg...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 4 Not under consideration

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.
2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Needs more information

Refresh Token provided in HTTP Headers

Current situation: The OpenID Connect refresh token is sent as a GET parameter to the webservers of pem-pp and pem-pr applications so the refresh token is showed in the URL history of the browser/sniffer traffic: Example: GET/rochesso/home?refresh...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Under review