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Status Submitted
Categories Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 9, 2025

SFTP: Emit a Communication Session entry (or equivalent event) for each authentication failure attempt, including attempt number and reason

Product / Component
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator / SFG – SFTP Server Adapter

Current Behavior
For SFTP, authentication may fail up to multiple times within a single SSH session negotiation. These failures do not produce distinct Communication Session entries; only successful sessions (or a final failure state) are visible, which obscures per-attempt detail.


What is your industry? Financial Markets
How will this idea be used?

Concrete security telemetry (SOC rules, SIEM correlation)

Faster incident triage (who/when/where attempts happened)

Parity with FTP/HTTP single-attempt semantics while honoring SSH’s multi-attempt reality