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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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Maintain FIPS support for SSP HSM

JCE FIPS implementation has changed in the JRE shipped with SSP 6.0.2 to add support for TLSv1.3. Require verification that FIPS mode will continue to be supported after migration from 6.0.1.1
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Delivered

Some sites still require Implicit SSL due to business pressure

Implicit SSL is generally not a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for Secure Proxy. However, some of our customers experience intense business pressure...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

SSP CM : Alternate JMS Connection Info under JMS Queue Management in Advanced - System Settings - CMSystemSettings - Globals

Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager Hello Team, Even though there is option to have multiple JMS Configuration under CMSystemSettings, at a time only one JMS configuration can be set in JMS Queue Management to enable JMS queuing for CM. Th...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

SSP to support 9000+ IPs/range nodes in Inbound Netmaps for all protocols

Currently, we have 9000+ IPs/CIDR ranges to allow the traffic from. We have added 9000+ entries in Netmap nodes but when we try to edit/save/add more nodes manually the SSP CM GUI is hanging/breaks/not responding properly/going to inoperable state...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Urgent - SSP increase the Netmap Inbound Node limit to support 9000+ nodes

Currently, we have 9000+ IPs/CIDR ranges to allow the traffic from. We have added 9000+ entries in Netmap nodes but when we try to edit/save/add more nodes manually the SSP CM GUI is hanging/breaking/not responding properly. In the same way we hav...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Urgent - SSP Netmap Inbound nodes limit increase to support 9000+ nodes

Currently, we have 9000+ IPs and CIDR ranges to be whitelisted/allowed on each and every protocol Netmap. After adding all these 9000 entries to a netmap GUI is not responding properly, add/save/edit of new/existing nodes is breaking the entire SS...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Forward client IP for all protocols from sterling secure proxy to sterling file gateway

Currently SSP forward IP for HTTP Protocol to sterling b2b integrator but it doesn't have capability to forward client IP for other protocols to sterling b2b integrator. We have a regulatory requirement to capture IP for all inbound files/transact...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 12 Delivered

OCSP implementation for CD/SEAS

CD/SEAS do not provide any means to check the status of the certifcate in real time. They current rely on cache update on regular basis. Addition of OSCP in SEAS will provide a realtime check of revocation
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for IBM Secure Proxy

SSPCM currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a new instance of SSPCM and its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Additional Authentication Exit in SEAS/SSP

External authentication is already achieved through SEAS, however, if additional authentication logic is required then the only way to achieve this is through a SEAS custom exit. Use of a SEAS custom exit means that we have to re-write the existin...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered