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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 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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

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

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

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

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

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

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

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

AI-Powered B2BI Tuning Recommender

IBM Sterling B2BI provides a wide range of configuration options to maximize performance. As file volumes increase due to business growth, manually identifying and applying the right tuning adjustments becomes complex and time-consuming. Currently...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

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