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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...
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...

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Enable SSO Support for SSP for Other External Application Systems

Add support to enable SSO configurations for SSP to connect to additional back-end applications other than Sterling Integrator and SFG.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Delivered

SSP should support in integrating with other 3rd party Malware checking products using ICAP

SSP should support in integrating with other 3rd party Malware checking products using ICAP protocol similar to what DataPower supports today.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 3 Delivered

Ability to Scan Files for Viruses in the DMZ before arrival in Secure Zone

Need a facility to contact a server via ICAP to scan files (similar to how QuickFile) works. This can be achieved by installing SSP perimeter servers on the virus server in its zone and have SSP engines leverage a persistent connection between the...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Suppress load balancer health check pings for Configuration Manager Dashboard

We have Active- Passive Configuration Manager in our implementations. Administrators connect to Configuration Manager via Load Balancer URL. This would allow the administrators not to worry which configuration manager server they connect to.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Support for IPv6 needed in SSP

The Bank Need support for IPv6 in sterling secure proxy. Please help to implement this
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Concurrent session should not be allowed

Currently Sterling secure proxy configuration manager(CM) allows concurrent session for a CM user. According to BANK security policy concurrent session should be in controlled manner
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

SSP-Configuration Manager: Inadequate Cross-Site Request Forgery Implementation

We use the Sterling Secure proxy application, in conjunction with the Sterling Integrator application, in our Managed File Transfer environment. A penetration test was conducted on our SSP-CM application (v3.4.2) in July 2016, and this brought to ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Delivered

Block users from attempting authentication at the Secure Proxy level

We have a Secure Proxy engine that is exposed to the internet. As such we are subjected to a large number of "probing" login attempts from usernames such as "root", "admin", etc. All of our login attempts are passed to a Sterling External Authenti...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Support for Windows 2012 R2

Windows 2012 R2 should be add Gentran:Server system requirements.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

Ability to reject user access at proxy before authentication check

We would like the ability to create a proxy filter (blacklist) to block unknown user names that result in failed authentication attempts. Many of these attempts come from both domestic and foreign nations, so IP whitelisting is not useful to restr...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Delivered