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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...

Sterling Secure Proxy

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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 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 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 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Native support for DLP to manage sensible data

Customer would like to have in SSP a feature to connect with their DLP solution based on ICAP protocol to avoid that sensible data be sent outside of their organization without permission.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 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 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Please provide an option to retrieve or reset the admin password.

We require a solution to reset or recover the SSP CM admin password, which is essential for exporting and importing configurations across various environments.
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Automation of certificate replacement in SSP and SI

As we are replacing SSL certificates more often and validity lengths are shortening we will have to do more certification replacements. I would like a way to automate the certificate replacement within SI and SSP. I would need an automated or scri...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future 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 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Add the setting in SSP or PS can redirect incoming traffic to a different adapter after the adapter reaches its maximum session limit

For sftp clients from our external clients, their TCP sessions remain ESTABLISHED even though after users logoff. As a result, the Maximum Session limit of the SFTP adapter will be reached frequently. However, even though the session limit is reac...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 2 Planned for future release