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Status Not under consideration
Categories Security
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 27, 2022

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions without the additional requirement for another product such as Sterling External Authentication Server. The native support should connect to commercial MFA applications such as PingID, RSA Security, Microsoft Authenticator, Google Authenticator, etc. The www.ibm.com website now has a MFA requirement, and the products used by companies should be capable of connecting to an enterprise wide MFA solution they are already using just like the website; natively.
  • Guest
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    Oct 6, 2022

    We need MFA for our B2Bi Application.

  • Guest
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    Sep 30, 2022

    Thank you for participating in the request for enhancement community. At this time, we are unable to prioritize this request in the short term, however, we will continue to monitor this for customer interest. IBM Sterling Secure Proxy and Sterling External Authentication Server supports SAML 2.0 and provides the SSO/MFA for the IBM Sterling suite of software. Enhancements can be opened under those products as well.