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Ability to see perimeter server status on SSP (i.e. monitioring - running/stopped)

Currently we're unable to see which perimeter servers are active on the Sterling Secure Proxy engines, this in turn can cause issues if duplicates are present. This would mimic the monitoring ability currently in place for adapters.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Increase the Secure Proxy Alternate Destinations list from 3 to N+ (7 or more)

Our customers have multiple sites that host their CD endpoints and are connected through SSP. We would like the number of Destination Addresses in the CD Netmap configuration increased to support a larger number of alternate addresses. Based on cu...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Secure Proxy to Provide Optional URI Support

On an SSP HTTP Reverse Proxy, allow optional configuration of a URI, so that traffic can be routed to multiple destinations. The mechanism would allow the adapter to listen on a single port, but then based on URI in the HTTP request, could route t...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / 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 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Concept of Certificate Grouping and Referring Group Directly Under Netmaps

In Today's world, when Client Authentication is Enabled in SSP, firstly we need to get the root and intermediate certs and check-in to the SSP and then choose the new certificates in the respective netmaps. The number of netmaps we need to make th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Functionality to Retain Adapter Status in SSP Application in case of a reboot

In the current version of Sterling Secure Proxy available in the market there is no functionality to retain the Adapter state in case of a reboot. Ideally whenever we restart our SSP Engine Application all the adapters are getting started irrespec...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 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 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration