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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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Automated way to copy exported SSL conf file from CM to Engine

We use a common SSL certificate for the CM, engine and Jetty web server communications. We export the SSL certificate store file from the CM (via ./configureCmSsl.sh -e file=<export file>) and store that in a location on the server the CM ru...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Functionality gap - support for signing of SAML AuthRequest to IdP required

It is a requirement of some IdP that AuthRequests sent from SSP to the IdP are signed, currently SSP only supports the signing of the AuthResponse. This is a gap
about 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Add multiple ICAP servers

Would like to have the option to add an alternate ICAP server for redundancy
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under consideration

IP + User_Id whitelisting

SSP supports IP or User_Id whitelisting only but not a combo ( IP + User_id). We need to ability to whitelist IPs for a given User_id. This way, if a rouge employee left the firm but carries the user_id credential, he can't login from other locati...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 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...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Support MQ HA for configuring JMS Topic

The MQ infrastructure at our organisation is set up in a HA topology where we have multiple queue managers. The queue manager name is not provided to applications wanting to connect to the queues with the expectation that they use the default queu...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

GCM mode for SFTP

We are seeing increased reluctance from partner organisations to trust CBC mode, due to OpenSSH's withdrawal of support for this mode by default. This leaves Secure Proxy with only CTR mode encryption as a widely accepted option. To ensure that we...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling Secure Proxy do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that end user sessions af...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Functionality already exists

IBM B2B Integrator product needs an ability to capture the SFTP public key of a Client attempting to connect to File Gateway's mailbox.

When a client first attempts to connect to the server their public key should be captured and put in an holding tank. We find that many of our customers are unable to successfully capture and share their public key with out the format of the trans...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Future consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SSP

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSP, and Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration