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The credit card industry has always has PCI as an auditing group or tool to ensure the safety and accountability when files containing card holder data is ported from end to end sites.The idea is to introduce comprehensive PCI reporting of actions taken within the connect direct application to update, modify, delete and add new items by an administrator.

The credit card industry PCI audits are becoming more intrusive. These audit groups employed by credit card processing companies are doing deep dives into products that handle credit card data and or sensitive information. In the past, the file tr...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3

File transfer to AWS s3 via perimeter server

On the basis of security concerns Sterling filegateway comes with Perimeter server but when we connect to AWS s3 from SFG there is no option to route file via perimeter server. So to over come this we are raising this idea that when we transfer fi...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

Allow System Certificates to work the same as CA Certificate groups

Currently when we generate a new System Certificate and want to install it to our HTTP Server Adapters, we need to take our environment down and schedule/coordinate the change of the certificates with all our AS2 customers. Not an easy task given ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 10 Future consideration

Logs for who viewed/downloaded files in SFG

Currently we have users in sterling file gateway where these users have permissions to view and replay files. We would like to see who viewed the files from the SFG console. We have looked at ui.logs, security.logs, authentication.logs but we don'...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Prepare to support EBICS v4.0

EBICS is a banking standard used by banks and corporations in Europe for payments, cash and treasury management etc. The EBICS organisation is looking to build on the harmonisation introduced in EBICS v3, introduced in 2018, focusing on: EBICS V 4...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

SFG File Size column in Activity

When looking at 'Routes' > 'Activity', one can right-click the column headings and add the 'Size'. However, there is no way to save this setting and it disappears once you log off and log back in. I opened Case TS015174429 and they responded wi...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication, currently it just supports SQL authtentication, this is causing issues with keeping up to current security standards.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration