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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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Functionality gap - support for signing of SAML AuthRequest to IdP required

It is a requirement of some IdP that AuthRequests sent from SSP to the IdP are signed, currently SSP only supports the signing of the AuthResponse. This is a gap
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Partner Engagement Manager

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over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Planned for future release

We'd like to propose the introduction of support for configuring multiple Netmap entries for mailboxes that require access from multiple IP ranges.

A partner requires IP restrictions for their mailbox. However, their access originates from multiple locations, resulting in connections from various IP addresses. Unfortunately, the current version of Secure Proxy Engine doesn't support associati...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

Option for TLSv1.1 or Higher in FTPS Netmap

Request to either add an option for TLSv1.1 or higher under FTPS netmap > Security > Secure Connection > Security Setting for a FTPS adapter, or remove SSLv3 and TLSv1 from the "SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, or TLSv1.2" option under the same loc...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add successful security handshake information to the audit log

Add information to the SSP audit log regarding what was negotiated during a successful security handshake. For SSL/TLS this would include the protocol version(SSLv3.0, TLSv1.0, etc.), the cipher agreed upon and the client source IP. For SFTP/SSH t...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to add custom HTTP headers for PEM application

Due to security concerns, security team likes to have custom HTTP headers in all HTTP traffic. Request you to please add a new feature is to be able to configure HTTP header for PEM application. This is required to get CA signed certificates from ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Limit Secure Proxy sessions by inbound IP address

We want the ability to limit inbound sessions per IP address at the adapter level. We don't want to maintain inbound IP addresses in SSP but we would like SSP to be intelligent enough to realize when an external inbound IP is consuming X number of...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Refresh Token provided in HTTP Headers

Current situation: The OpenID Connect refresh token is sent as a GET parameter to the webservers of pem-pp and pem-pr applications so the refresh token is showed in the URL history of the browser/sniffer traffic: Example: GET/rochesso/home?refresh...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Under review

Use Refresh token rotation to make Jwt token more secure

Current Situation: An access token allows temporary access to restricted resources, PEM APIs, and so has a short validity period of 5 minutes (configurable through system properties). A refresh token has a longer validity as it allows users to log...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Under review

Multiple Configuration Managers supporting proxy/perimeter servers

Currently SSPcm is a single point of failure since only 1 instance can manage a set of proxies. If the one instance goes offline, the proxies being managed a stop functioning correctly
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Future consideration