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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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    Support ICAP on SSP FTPS adapters

    SSP's ICAP capability currently only supports Connect:Direct, SFTP, and https (myfg2.0 specifically when exposing myfilegateway). Customers require support for FTPS since many partners globally still use FTPS and will continue to do so.SSP custome...
    4 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

    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
    10 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

    Ability to select TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 both for a node.

    Currently Sterling Secure Proxy has the ability to support mixed mode of TLS 1.1,TLS 1.2. We have some partners who need to move to TLS 1.3 where as other continue to use TLS 1.2. Hence need the ability to select mixed mode of TLS 1.2,TLS1.3 .
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Onboarding 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Under review

    Support service mesh for container deployments

    Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio.
    2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Under review

    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...
    2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

    SSP FIPS mode enable should work with HSM device

    Sterling Secure proxy communication failing with SSL error when we enable FIFS mode and SSL certs are stored under HSM device. below is the SSL error: Short Text => TLS/SSL handshake failure, reason=Handshake failure , GSK codes (init/validate)...
    4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Under review

    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...
    4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

    Maximum Logins per user sessions settings configuration in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Adaptor level

    Currently in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy configuration manager at adapter level there is configuration for Maximum Sessions. We are looking for configuration for Maximum Logins" per user. 
    5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

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