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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Sterling Secure Proxy
Categories Administration & Configuration
Created by Guest
Created on May 14, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Automate certificate management

TLS cert life spans are going to become very short by 2029 (https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days).  This effectively means that everyone who uses Sterling file transfer products will have to have a manual process in place to update their TLS certs once a month.  

There should be an API in SFG, SSP and/or secure+ that follows the ACME protocol (https://www.keyfactor.com/blog/what-is-acme-protocol-and-how-does-it-work/) so certificate management systems can automatically update TLS certs.  Otherwise there's going to be a lot of manual work required of staff who manage Sterling file transfer products, which will probably drive adoption of other secure file transfer software that does use ACME for automatic cert updates.
 

  • Admin
    Kiran Krishnan
    Aug 13, 2025

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. We appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience and your recommendations. After reviewing this, we have decided to consider implementing this idea in one of the future releases based on the roadmap priorities.

    If you have any additional feedback, thoughts or ideas, or if there is anything else I can do, please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation. Appreciate your patience.

    Thanks,

    Product Management

    Sterling Data Exchange

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