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UI Branding feature for SSPcm Dashboard

Most customers have their own branding and styling requirements for the different user interfaces they use. At present, there is no support for UI branding customization in SSPcm UI. Nowadays, it is a common customer requirement to customize the U...
13 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Submitted

Forward Proxy to support private key from B2Bi without SEAS

The existing feature currently supports fetching the private key only from LDAP, which is then used as the identity key when SSP initiates a connection to a remote partner. This enhancement request is to support a mechanism where the partner’s ide...
26 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Future consideration

Key Creation During Onboarding

Problem Statement During SSP User onboarding, users and administrators currently need to generate SSH key pairs in the SSH KeyStore before configuring User. This creates additional operational steps. Common challenges include: Manual key generatio...
30 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Needs more information

Multi-Key Support Per User

Problem Statement Currently, SSP user onboarding and authentication workflows can become operationally challenging when users require multiple SSH keys for different applications, systems, automation tools, or rotation activities. Many enterprise ...
30 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Needs more information

Enhancement to Display Full Configuration Names in Sterling Secure Proxy UI

Currently, in the Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) administrative UI, configuration object names (such as Netmaps, Policies, and Server definitions) are truncated due to fixed column widths. Users must click on each individual entry to view the full co...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Functionality already exists

Select multiple trust cert with search functionality

In SSP Dashboard, Netmap > Inbound Node[HTTP based protocol] > Security>CA Certificates/Trusted Root While selecting multiple certificates it becomes very difficult to select multiple cert and find to unselect certificate. It would be con...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Planned for future release

Stream logs to AWS cloudwatch for better visibility.

Need logs streamed to cloudwatch so they can be monitored and acted upon using our visibility tools. We do not have direct access to the containers for checking logs and rely upon automated solutions to monitor activity in the cloud.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Future consideration

Being able to send large files up to 1 TB files

Would like the ability to send larges files up to 1TB in sizes. Currently ssp-engine has a limit in its ICAP configuration to 10 GB. This is too small for the use cases that my company will handling.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Planned for future release

Support multiple replicas and autoscaling for SSP engine containers.

The engine component of SSP naturally lends itself to multiple replicas and scaling like this and it would be very useful for autoscaling to create additional engines on demand. I do realize that all the engines would have to be "pre-defined" on t...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Future 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...
over 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Not under consideration