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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...
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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 5 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

    RHEL10 support for SSP and SEAS

    Support RHEL 10 for SSP & SEAS
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

    Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP)

    Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This document proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for alternative user exit options beyond th...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 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...
    7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 6 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

    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

    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

    Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network)

    There is a requirement from customer to have Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network).
    almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

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