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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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Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling Secure Proxy do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that end user sessions af...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Purging notification records at run-time

With current Windows Connect:Express versions, when notifications are enabled, notification records are added at run-time in the local database, even when they are fully processed (notifications messages sent), and they remain there, possibly very...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SSP Welcom Page *make change to force 1st time users to change password.

Looking for solution in SSP welcome page for HTTPS users to be forced to change password on initial login. Current versions don't account for attribute in LDS/AD if the account is defined with attribute of expired.. Allowing the user / password to...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Dictate cipher order for incoming HTTP transactions

We would like the ability within SSP to be able to dictate cipher order. Right now we have our security team testing our SSP nodes and when they test with the script here: https://testssl.sh/ Using version 2.9.5 we get back that the client can neg...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX Direct access to tapes

CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS could access directly tapes : read tape to transmit the file or write on tape the file received.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX SYSTCP Partial generic

In the SYSTCP the TCP/IP address can only be unique or '*'. It can't be générique like 172.016.063.* So we have too much entries.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Express Zos : use of batch process P0B2DIR

Connect:Express Zos : with batch Process P0B2DIR, we want to use the function LIST and EXPORT with only one SPN (or SFN). today, we can use only these functions with PARTNER.NAME = *
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Other 1 Not under consideration

to store SSH keys on HSM - SSP

Barclays GIS team have requirement to store the SSH keys on HSM. We raised case "TS004170075" with IBM and got to know that currently SSP dont support this and requested to raise RFE for it. Currently we store the x509 certs into HSM and want same...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Not under consideration

More authentication mechanisms can be used for Sterling Secure Proxy to be monitored by SCC

In the Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration related documents, only the user/Password authentication mechanism to be used for the SSP to be monitored by the SCC. However this method might not be a good option, since the password can't be hold for a...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Not under consideration

CX Number of transfers requests in a mode

To have a MVS command (MODIFY to the CX address space) to query the number of requests in the CX which are in the mode we would specify in the command ('U' for the running requests for example).
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration