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Security

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Include special characters (e.g. @) in Parameter Name of Obscure Data - Process Data Values service

We are using SI 6.0.3.2 and the Parameter Name does not allow special characters such as "@" being used in the Obscure Data - Process Data Values service. This prevents email addresses being used as Names.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Address the log4J 1.x vulnerable Liberty WAR files in SB2Bi version 6.1.2

According to the release notes by IBM on the Sterling B2B Integrator version 6.1.2 it states "Apache log4j 1.x is removed and now we are using Apache log4j 2.17.2." However after updating to 6.1.2 The war files listed below still contained log4j 1...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Is a defect

Regarding user account creation alert in SI/SFG

Hi Team, We do not have any option to get an alert or notification whenever we create a new user in Sterling Dashboard or File-Gateway, It will be good if we can have an alert in security point of you, Please let me know if you need any other info...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Support for MQ version 9.2, currently supports upto v9.1.0.7

Our Implementation uses Global Mailbox and the current version of B2Bi (6.1.0.3, 6.1.1) supports maximum MQ version 9.1.0.7. Our Security and MQ team have identified a security vulnerability with version 9.1.x.x which is remediated with version 9....
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Is a defect

Local "admin" account logon logs should be captured

Recently, we observed one issue with by default local accounts logon logs in Sterling Integrator application. Logs are getting captured when the authentication log is in debug mode. Logs are not getting captured when authentication log is in non-d...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Implicit SSL is making a comeback with some sites due to its immediate application of SSL

Implicit SSL is generally not considered a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for B2B Integrator. However, some of our customers experience intense busi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Partner Level Authentication

We are starting to see more and more customers want to move to SSH Key only auth, however, we are not set to that today, nor are all of our customers ready/willing to make that switch. Since the authentication requirement is set at a system level,...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists