topic Re: Palo Alto Virtual Firewall in General Topics

Palo Alto Virtual Firewall

Lakshitha — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 06:08:54 GMT

Dear Friend,

Can you anybody advice me on palo alto multi vsys capability issues and currently contests of this technology? If one virtual instance compromise how we can make sure it not impact to other vsys ? How multi vsys behaviour on privileged escalation type attack or buffer overflow? Will palo alto guarantee about this possibilities? Please share future information.

Thanks

Lakshitha

Re: Palo Alto Virtual Firewall

OtakarKlier — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:46:15 GMT

Hello,

The Vsys is just a logical separation within the firewall for things such as a multi tenant solution. As long as the passwords and access is different to each vsys, then a compromise of one should not impact the other. However access should be whitelisted.

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-0/pan-os-admin/virtual-systems/virtual-systems-overview.html

Regards,