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Usability

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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 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Control logging of SSP CM monitoring messages

Messages are written to the auditlog.xml file (ACPT037I, ACPT040I and ACPT038I), as well as the sspengine.log file for the same activity. It is possible to reduce the frequency of these messages, but only to once every 10 minutes. It would be grea...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

Update Adapter log in SSP 6000 just as SSP343

To identify the IP or Subnet to be whitelisted. Hi Team, There is a difference in the way the IP/DNS are getting logged in the Adapter logs in SSP 6000 than SSP 343. This has become an issue as we are not able to differentiate between an IP/...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Is a defect

Increase the Secure Proxy Alternate Destinations list from 3 to N+ (7 or more)

Our customers have multiple sites that host their CD endpoints and are connected through SSP. We would like the number of Destination Addresses in the CD Netmap configuration increased to support a larger number of alternate addresses. Based on cu...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Secure Proxy to Provide Optional URI Support

On an SSP HTTP Reverse Proxy, allow optional configuration of a URI, so that traffic can be routed to multiple destinations. The mechanism would allow the adapter to listen on a single port, but then based on URI in the HTTP request, could route t...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Functionality to Retain Adapter Status in SSP Application in case of a reboot

In the current version of Sterling Secure Proxy available in the market there is no functionality to retain the Adapter state in case of a reboot. Ideally whenever we restart our SSP Engine Application all the adapters are getting started irrespec...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration