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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...

Sterling Secure Proxy

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Modify configureCmSsl.sh and configureEngineSsl.sh to allow for command line paramter passing

the current scripts allow for some parameters to be passed, but when exporting a CM configuration, you must always supply a second passphrase for the encryption of the exported xml file. This parameter cannot be passed without feeding it from your...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting capabilities not available

Monitoring: The only way to investigate the status/traffic of a specific connection is accessing the Event and Audit log files located in the SSP server. This has a deep impact on the usability of the product making the operation activities of Sup...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Disable Terminal SSH to Secure Proxy from External (Adapter)

We are currently running the latest version of Secure Proxy and are able to ssh (terminal) through the adapter to the SSP host. Although we are not able to login, it is an audit finding to prompt for credentials. Should simply close the session. I...
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Hooks to enable the SSO Authentication for SSPDashboard URL

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Not under consideration

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Support

Many enterprises have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) as their standard. It would be ideal to add support for OEL OS, so customers can deploy the products (SSP CM/SSP Engine/SSP PS) without any if and buts we have today in our support statement. htt...

SSH Support Through SSP As A Forward Proxy

During recent joint discussions a gap in the SSP protocol stack has been identified whereby outbound SSH connections (i.e. supporting SFTP and SCP) are not supported. In order to enforce a More Secure to Less Secure network, whereby the network ho...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Send all Partner related Events / activity to ICC

We are looking for some kind of report from SSP / ICC that would provide all the activity happening in SSP related to partners login attempt. At any point of time, we should be able to generate a report by partner to find out. how many successful ...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Planned for future release

Allow customization of LDAP ping "dummy" user

It is possible to configure a periodic "heartbeat" that checks the connection to External Auth, and it is also possible to have it attempt an LDAP bind (via the ea.ping.profile setting). However, when it does this LDAP bind, it uses a fake user ("...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Provide visibility of log info within SSP UI for troubleshooting of connectivity or authentication issues

Troubleshooting external trading partner connectivity issues requires accessing the SB2BI servers and searching multiple log files. This is extremely cumbersome as well as requiring production support resources to have access to the server, which ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Not under consideration