Can the VM Firewall decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt SSH traffic?

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Can the VM Firewall decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt SSH traffic?

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We have to use SFTP, which uses SSH, for some AWS transfers.  We wish to do deep packet inspection.  Can the PA VM-FW accomplish that?  Thanks.

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Cyber Elite
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Hi @JimmyChernega ,

 

On this URL -> https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-admin/decryption/decryption-concepts/ssh-proxy, scroll down to the bottom, last sentence under #7.  "The firewall only looks for SSH port forwarding, it does not perform content and threat inspection on SSH tunnels."  It only blocks the ssh-tunnel app.

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

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Cyber Elite
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Hi @JimmyChernega ,

 

On this URL -> https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-admin/decryption/decryption-concepts/ssh-proxy, scroll down to the bottom, last sentence under #7.  "The firewall only looks for SSH port forwarding, it does not perform content and threat inspection on SSH tunnels."  It only blocks the ssh-tunnel app.

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

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