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    Test compatibility windows server 2025 and SSP

    Our organization want to migrate from windows server 2019 to windows server 2025 by 4th quarter of 2026
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

    Known Host Key Configuration - Host Value - expand characters limitation

    On 6.2.0.2 of SSP, using the new REACT's interface SSL : To create a new "Known Host Key Configuration" in Known Host Key Store, the field Host IP (optional) is limited to the following characters : .:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST...
    2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Onboarding 4 Future consideration

    Sterling Secure Proxy HSM Integration to store TLS certificate encryption key only

    Many organizations use SSP for TLS sessions termination and authenticate clients in presentation zone. The volumes would be high in general, with HSM integration and security mandates each TLS connection has to communicate with HSM for TLS offload...
    3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration

    Enabel console logging on SSP and SEAS - Container base Deployment

    Within SSP & SEAS helm chart Values we do not see any configurable option to have our SSP/SEAS Application level logs to be enable on POD console. For reference We have this option available in SI help chart "logs.enableAppLogOnConsole" this s...
    3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

    Enhance security and stability bu introducing Customer level session limit to safeguard performance.

    The Proposal is to introduce customer level session rate limiting in SSP to enhance stability and security. We can add a enhancement by monitoring session creation rates per customer- identified bu login ID, certificate or IP-SSP can enforce confi...
    5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

    Support storage of private ssh key in HSM

    Mastercard's File Transfer System uses SSP, CM and SEAS for SFTP Server. The current configuration does not comply with our policy that requires SSH private key to be stored in a Hardware Security Module (HSM). These keys are configured in CM UI a...
    6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

    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...
    7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Future consideration

    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.
    7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 3 Future consideration

    Allow SSP application to accept spaces and special characters in the username for LDAP integration

    SSP application is not allowing AD username with spaces and special characters like '-'. Since our AD account has spaces and – in the username, this is not allowing us to integrate SSP with LDAP.
    8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

    API for Engine Config Push

    Provide API to push configuration to engines. Same functionality as the "Push Config" button on the Monitoring->Engine Status (All) page on the UI.
    11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 3 Future consideration

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