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UI Branding feature for SSPcm Dashboard

Most customers have their own branding and styling requirements for the different user interfaces they use. At present, there is no support for UI branding customization in SSPcm UI. Nowadays, it is a common customer requirement to customize the U...
15 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Submitted

Forward Proxy to support fetching private key from B2Bi with SEAS

The existing feature only support to fetch the Private key from LDAP which will be use as identity key when a connection is being initiated to remote user from SSP. This enhancement is to support a mechanism to fetch the user identity key(private ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Future consideration

Improve handling of SSH_FXP_FSETSTAT requests during ICAP antivirus scanning

When ICAP antivirus scanning is enabled for SFTP transfers, SSP may receive additional valid SFTP requests while a file is still being processed. One example is the SSH_FXP_FSETSTAT request, which some SFTP clients send during an active upload. In...
10 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting Submitted

Forward Proxy to support private key from B2Bi without SEAS

The existing feature currently supports fetching the private key only from LDAP, which is then used as the identity key when SSP initiates a connection to a remote partner. This enhancement request is to support a mechanism where the partner’s ide...
28 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy tree structure for SSL configuration

Currently we are finding hard in identifying correct SSL configurations which need to be updated as all SSL configurations are in single page, instead of this if we have tree structure Adapter --> Netmap --> SSL configuration like in previou...
7 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 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
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade

Key Creation During Onboarding

Problem Statement During SSP User onboarding, users and administrators currently need to generate SSH key pairs in the SSH KeyStore before configuring User. This creates additional operational steps. Common challenges include: Manual key generatio...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Needs more information

Multi-Key Support Per User

Problem Statement Currently, SSP user onboarding and authentication workflows can become operationally challenging when users require multiple SSH keys for different applications, systems, automation tools, or rotation activities. Many enterprise ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Needs more information

User identity (certificate/key) renewal is complex

user identity key renewal activity is very complex, whenever we renewal SSH keys renewal, we need to share SSH keys with Third parties and then update at the Partner level which is too much time taking. Is there any other better approach where we ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Needs more information

SSP should have a setting to configure "allowlist" usernames which should accept regex express for allowed user names

The SSP must provide a setting to configure, such as a **"Users Allowlist"**, where we can set up a list of usernames and/or a regular expression. This configuration should ensure that the SSP allows connections only from those users that match th...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Future consideration

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