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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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Properly document SEAS

There are many screens in SEAS UI that are not documented at all or fully.
over 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 Moduli min bits

As diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 typically used a minimum of 2048 bits for the key size. However for the stronger security, it's recommended to use 3072 bits or even 4096 in SSP. However, we can't change the min bits of moduli in SSP to ful...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

expand password length to 100 Characters

Consistency of all IBM products to allign with the RACF maximum Password/Passphrase Lengths,
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

SSP - Disable TLS1.0

SSLv3 is disabled by default in SSP in the java.security file with the following line of code. We have attempted to add TLS1 to disable TLS1.0 only and we were not successful. Adding TSL1 to the list of algorithms disabled all versions of TLS not ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

SFG/SI users changing password with SEAS

There is presently no way to for a myfilegateway user to change their password if Sterling External Authenticator is used. Which seems odd because SFG can talk to SEA and validate an SSO token. There needs to be a feature to allow users to change ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

Email alerts for SEAS errors

Currently errors within SEAS cannot be detected without logging into the server and manually checking the SEAS logs. LDAP related failures (for example loss of connectivity to LDAP or expired password for the login we bind to LDAP with) are an exa...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Retry option in SEAS for any connection failures with LDAP server.

The retry option will take care of any internal connection failure instead of sending connection error for external partners/vendors.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

The default Admin ID to be remove from a future release of software.

During the Control Center installation, admin accounts get created in Control Center, and as per the AXIS security team, there should not be any generic accounts like admin, administrator, etc As per IBM OEM the feasibility of removing the 'adm...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Script to suppress the alerts during/after the maintenance hours

We CCM running on our environment and monitoring SFG/B2Bi/SEAS/CD components. During weekend maintenance/Disaster recovery Test we need to suppress/clear the alerts in CCM Panel manually. It will be easy if we can schedule a job run a script to cl...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

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