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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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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 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Signature parameter to SEASCustomExitInterface class

Hi Team, To perform actual authentication, the client sends a signature generated using the private key. It is a SSH signature verification. To perform signature verification, customer backend generic solution need the following data in the authen...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 4 Planned for future release

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Support ICAP Virus scan for Forward Proxy connections

Sterling customers that receive data from partners benefit from ICAP streaming virus scan. However, most customers support both file transfer motions where SFG/B2Bi reach out to partners to move files as well. This reach out (listening producer) s...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Submitted

Monitoring SSP authorization through SCC

Hi Team, One of my client has a requirement to monitor and generate a report which gives the details of users who initiated a connection to SSP.It should capture both successful and unsuccessful attempts along with the username. Currently, the onl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Future consideration

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...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Support OIDC/Oauth 2.0 in SSP

Modern authentication requirements need support for OIDC/Oauth 2.0 alongside the existing SAML 2.0 support. Please extend SSP to provide this flavor of access as well.
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 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...
28 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted