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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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Sterling Secure Proxy does not currently support the forward proxy

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about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 4 Future consideration

Need an ability to Stop and Start the SSP Adapters and Engines vis SSPRestAPI.SH and SSPRestAPI.properties

We are building a solution that will allow us to centrally manage all of our estate which includes IBM Sterling Secure Proxy. Currently we can see in the HTTPS webcalls we can see the methods to Start and Stop the adapters it will be good if we ca...
almost 4 years 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 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add multiple ICAP servers

Would like to have the option to add an alternate ICAP server for redundancy
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under consideration

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 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under 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 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Future consideration

Disable save button until any configuration change is made

Prevents update to configuration when no changes are made.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Add ability to suppress health check (log message)

Simple configuration on/off switch
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

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 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release