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Search results: Sterling Secure Proxy

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
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade Planned for future release

Automate certificate management

TLS cert life spans are going to become very short by 2029 (https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days). This effectively means that everyone who uses Sterling file transfer products will have to have...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Planned for future release

Encrypt data in Memory

Sterling Secure Proxy engine in the DMZ stores the configuration data in the memory but in a plain text, this enhancement request is to encrypt the sensitive data in the memory so the information is protected from various external and internal thr...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Planned for future release

Sterling Secure Proxy to sign Login SAML request

Presently IBM Sterling Secure proxy sends a SAML request to external Idp using SSO Configuration in SSP. The Login SAML request is not adding the signature but the logout request is adding the signature in SAML request from SSP. From our security ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Planned for future release

Container Deployments - Use one common prerequisite script

Having one script, that has the same name in each upgrade, that does all the prerequisite work will help cut back on deployment problems. This is especially important with SSP container upgrades. In the FixList.txt there are two scripts to delete ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade Planned for future release

SSP - Resetting engine memory

Currently, SSP engines keep SSP CM configuration in memory. The memory is not cleared until the engine is restarted or a new configuration is pushed. The memory contains secured objects like private keys. These secure objects can be exposed as par...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Planned for future release

Add support for topologySpreadConstraints to helm chart for SSP engine container.

Need to be able to set the topologySpreadConstraints for the kubernetes PodTopologySpread plugin in the SSP engine helm chart. This option would enable better distribute of multiple SSP engines across availability zones in AWS EKS. I can use pod a...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade Planned for future release

add more logging for MAX session /statistics

Better monitoring, prevent issues when MAX sessions are reached.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Planned for future release

Increase buffer size from 262144 to unlimited similar to SFG

Some of our clients when they try connecting through SSP they are facing error requested buffer size (1048576) is larger than max: 262144 When they connect directly to SFG they are able to send without any issue. We request to increase the buffer ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance Planned for future release

Add back ability to configure custom SSL settings per netmap remote node

It appears version 6.2 removes the ability to custom configure SSL settings per each remote node in the netmap and forces you to select a pre-configured SSL profile. We would like to have the option to custom configure SSL settings per each remote...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Planned for future release