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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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Urgent - SSP Netmap Inbound nodes limit increase to support 9000+ nodes

Currently, we have 9000+ IPs and CIDR ranges to be whitelisted/allowed on each and every protocol Netmap. After adding all these 9000 entries to a netmap GUI is not responding properly, add/save/edit of new/existing nodes is breaking the entire SS...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Introduce option in IBM SP to pass on the HTTP host header from client to the backend application

Currently IBM SP when configured as a HTTP Reverse Proxy, does not pass the HTTP host header from the client's request to the backend application. The request here is to have this a configurable option, similar to Apache's ProxyPreserveHost option.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 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