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Workspace Sterling Secure Proxy
Categories Administration & Configuration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 8, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

Block users from attempting authentication at the Secure Proxy level

We have a Secure Proxy engine that is exposed to the internet. As such we are subjected to a large number of "probing" login attempts from usernames such as "root", "admin", etc.

All of our login attempts are passed to a Sterling External Authentication server for authentication through LDAP. With the current setup we wind up with tens of thousands of failed login attempts daily, causing load on our SEAS engine and LDAP servers, and also filling the SEAS logs with thousands of lines of garbage errors from these failed login attempts.

It would be useful to be able to restrict login attempts at the Secure Proxy level so that known invalid-ids are not even allowed to attempt authentication. This would reduce load on the authentication / LDAP servers, and also make the product more secure as there would be no chance of a user being able to break into a privileged ID if one happens to exist in LDAP.

Ideally it would be preferable if we could configure a pattern / patterns (perhaps using regex) that an allowed username must match in order to be allowed to attempt authentication. If not, it would at least be helpful to be able to blacklist specific usernames so they would not be allowed past the proxy.
DeveloperWorks ID DW_ID100885
RTC ID RTC_ID529184
Link to original RFE http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=100885
  • Admin
    VIJAY CHOUGULE
    Reply
    |     Mar 14, 2019

    The Proxy blacklisting feature is implemented in IBM Secure Proxy 6.0 release which is Generally available now.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 12, 2018

    When can we expect this RFE part of product functionality  ?

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