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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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Stream logs to AWS cloudwatch for better visibility.

Need logs streamed to cloudwatch so they can be monitored and acted upon using our visibility tools. We do not have direct access to the containers for checking logs and rely upon automated solutions to monitor activity in the cloud.
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Future consideration

Encrypt data in Memory

Sterling Secure Proxy engine in the DMZ stores the configuration data in the memory but in a plain text, this enhancement request is to encrypt the sensitive data in the memory so the information is protected from various external and internal thr...
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration

Select multiple trust cert with search functionality

In SSP Dashboard, Netmap > Inbound Node[HTTP based protocol] > Security>CA Certificates/Trusted Root While selecting multiple certificates it becomes very difficult to select multiple cert and find to unselect certificate. It would be con...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release

We need to create a report listing the certificates configured in secure proxy for the netmaps and seas

We need to create a report listing the certificates configured in secure proxy for the netmaps and seas so we can identify what needs to be updated when a specific certificate expires and to validate all of the certificates have been renewed succe...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Planned for future release

Being able to send large files up to 1 TB files

Would like the ability to send larges files up to 1TB in sizes. Currently ssp-engine has a limit in its ICAP configuration to 10 GB. This is too small for the use cases that my company will handling.
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Allow Pass-Through User Mapping option for " Password Or Key " Authentication Method in SFTP policies

We want to be able to select on the secure proxy configuration manager on SFTP policies the User Mapping option " Pass-Through " when the required Authentication Method selected is " Password Or Key ". This option is available for " Password ", " ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Sterling API Gateway Enablement: Enable Customer Company for ‘connections’ option through SCBN Hub

When a customer company name is given Config Hub access, only the self-service of Codelist and map gets enabled. To setup API Gateway configuration, the development team has to manually run an API to get the Connection parameter enabled in Config ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 3 Not under consideration

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Converting SPE codelist to SI codelist format in POD while exporting

In SPE the codelist loaded in SPE format but if we need to use codelist to test a map with local server we need to convert SPE codelist to SI format,As many customers are migrating to SPE ,for many customers like CEVA,LENOVO, Stanley, Micron ,Schn...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Not under consideration