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Sterling Secure Proxy

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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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy does not currently support the forward proxy

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 4 Future consideration

Monitoring Adapters

Would it be possible to create a way to monitor secure proxy adapters from the command line? It is possible to monitor sfg that way and as such building automation around this capability is nice.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

SEAS UI Password Recovery

There is no way to recover the admin password for the SEAS UI in SEAS 2.4.3.2 iFix 6 build 208. Users cannot manage certificate renewal updates if they cannot login to the UI.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Multiple Configuration Managers supporting proxy/perimeter servers

Currently SSPcm is a single point of failure since only 1 instance can manage a set of proxies. If the one instance goes offline, the proxies being managed a stop functioning correctly
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Future consideration

Allow customization of LDAP ping "dummy" user

It is possible to configure a periodic "heartbeat" that checks the connection to External Auth, and it is also possible to have it attempt an LDAP bind (via the ea.ping.profile setting). However, when it does this LDAP bind, it uses a fake user ("...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Need to support configuration for all protocols regarding forward proxies

A customer with whom I am working requires forward proxies for all protocols they use, in this case FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS. Their expectation is that Secure Proxy support these protocols both as reverse and forward proxies.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Planned for future release

Limit Secure Proxy sessions by inbound IP address

We want the ability to limit inbound sessions per IP address at the adapter level. We don't want to maintain inbound IP addresses in SSP but we would like SSP to be intelligent enough to realize when an external inbound IP is consuming X number of...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Password Security Controls

Password security controls for SSP administrator interfaces using local authentication are not allow enough password security controls: Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings are minimal and don’t comply with the ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release