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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
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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Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting capabilities not available

Monitoring: The only way to investigate the status/traffic of a specific connection is accessing the Event and Audit log files located in the SSP server. This has a deep impact on the usability of the product making the operation activities of Sup...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SSH Support Through SSP As A Forward Proxy

During recent joint discussions a gap in the SSP protocol stack has been identified whereby outbound SSH connections (i.e. supporting SFTP and SCP) are not supported. In order to enforce a More Secure to Less Secure network, whereby the network ho...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Utility option to a view only mode for SSP configuration

Currently the only way to view a configuration (Adapter, netmap,policy, etc ) is to open it for editing. This causes unnecessary riskto accidentally make changes of production configurations.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under 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 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Key Expiry Notification and Secure+ Enabled

Sterling Secure Proxy Administration of Certificate Expiry and Secure+ Enabled View
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Adding TLSv1.2 extensions to support ALPN (Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation) / NPN (Next Protocol Negotiation)

One of our AS2 external trading partners attempted to send sslv2 client hello but the encryption is tlsv1.2
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 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 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow Sterling Secure Proxy to perform URL Redirection for Reverse Proxy

Sterling Secure Proxy on Red Hat Linux version 2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64 is unable to route to different Outbound Nodes based on the URL that is sent to the proxy. Example (test vs prod at end of url):Incoming URL https:proxy.com:443/rosettanet/te...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Concept of Certificate Grouping and Referring Group Directly Under Netmaps

In Today's world, when Client Authentication is Enabled in SSP, firstly we need to get the root and intermediate certs and check-in to the SSP and then choose the new certificates in the respective netmaps. The number of netmaps we need to make th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 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