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Ability to Scan Files for Viruses in the DMZ before arrival in Secure Zone

Need a facility to contact a server via ICAP to scan files (similar to how QuickFile) works. This can be achieved by installing SSP perimeter servers on the virus server in its zone and have SSP engines leverage a persistent connection between the...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

reading Source IP address from HTTP headers through for example X-Forwarded-For

Currently there is a dynamic routing feature to read incoming source IP address and base the routing based on this value. However many organizations dont support having source IP address hitting the SSP engine servers. Usually the incoming IP addr...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Delivered

Deny Access/Blacklist for common ID's

Add ability to create and utilize a blacklist in order to quickly block common used id's in penetration scans. While the ID's are not used and access is denied, the login attempts still go through the full authentication attempts which generate ov...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 6 Delivered

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Some sites still require Implicit SSL due to business pressure

Implicit SSL is generally not a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for Secure Proxy. However, some of our customers experience intense business pressure...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Sterling External Authentication Server High Availability Scenario Failover Mechanism Needs

Hi, We would like to extend the options of failover scenarios in SSP-SEAS integration. In high available configuration, where there are two active SEAS, when one of the servers are down, the other takes over the others responsibilities. However,...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Add SOCKS Support for All SSP Protocols

This would be useful in our environment so that we have the ability to refresh hardware at a more rapid pace without having to worry about maintaining IP addresses in the refresh or notify our customers that we are moving to new infrastructure. Ou...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered