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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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Standalone Java upgrade

Considering enhanced focus on Java vulnerabilities and the frequency in which they are discovered, its difficult to keep pace with resolving them, if every time Product upgrade is needed. Please see if the Java upgrade can be done stand alone for ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Upgrade WLP standalone

WLP releases new versions every month, as per organizational policy of n-2 we always stay non-compliant with any product upgrade. By the time product upgrade is released at-least 1 newer version of WLP would be present. Internal cycle to deploy SI...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

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.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Container deployment or upgrade may not work in shared environments

There's been a few cases pointed out where the B2BI/SFG example container scripts for creating SCCs, Cluster Roles, Rolebindings, etc do not work in shared environments. This is interfering with deployments and upgrades in shared environments. In ...

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

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...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under 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 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Container Deployments - Use one common prerequisite script

Having one script, that has the same name in each upgrade, that does all the prerequisite work will help cut back on deployment problems. This is especially important with SSP container upgrades. In the FixList.txt there are two scripts to delete ...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

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 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Future consideration