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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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Support HSMs including Cloud HSMs in container versions of SSP

Financial services customer have regulatory requirements to use HSMs for certificate storage. In order for them to migrate to containers it is an absolute must that the container version of the products should support the same HSMs as the non-cont...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Not under consideration

Hooks to enable the SSO Authentication for SSPDashboard URL

No description provided
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Not under consideration

SSP - Disable TLS1.0

SSLv3 is disabled by default in SSP in the java.security file with the following line of code. We have attempted to add TLS1 to disable TLS1.0 only and we were not successful. Adding TSL1 to the list of algorithms disabled all versions of TLS not ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

MQ notifications on CX

When notifications are sent using HTTP, as you only have one HTTP server to send the notification you cannot do any load balancing between multiple nodes. If HTTP server answers too slowly due to a large load, HTTP response code can be sent before...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Option for TLSv1.1 or Higher in FTPS Netmap

Request to either add an option for TLSv1.1 or higher under FTPS netmap > Security > Secure Connection > Security Setting for a FTPS adapter, or remove SSLv3 and TLSv1 from the "SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, or TLSv1.2" option under the same loc...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Not under consideration

Inactive User Accounts Controls - Administrator Accounts

Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user accounts after a specified period of inactivity may result in unauthorized access, modification, destruction, and/or disclosure of confidential information.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Not under consideration

We need a MEMO not case sensitive

see attached file
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Dictate cipher order for incoming HTTP transactions

We would like the ability within SSP to be able to dictate cipher order. Right now we have our security team testing our SSP nodes and when they test with the script here: https://testssl.sh/ Using version 2.9.5 we get back that the client can neg...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX Direct access to tapes

CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS could access directly tapes : read tape to transmit the file or write on tape the file received.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX SYSTCP Partial generic

In the SYSTCP the TCP/IP address can only be unique or '*'. It can't be générique like 172.016.063.* So we have too much entries.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 0 Not under consideration