Configure SSH Proxy
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Configure SSH Proxy

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Configure SSH Proxy

SSH Proxy decryption requires no certificates and decrypts inbound and outbound SSH sessions and ensures that attackers can’t use SSH to tunnel potentially malicious applications and content.
Configuring SSH Proxy does not require certificates and the key used to decrypt SSH sessions is generated automatically on the firewall during boot up. With SSH decryption enabled, the firewall decrypts SSH traffic and blocks and or restricts the SSH traffic based on your decryption policy and decryption profile settings. Traffic is re-encrypted as it exits the firewall.
When you configure SSH Proxy, the proxied traffic does not support DSCP code points or QoS.
  1. Ensure that the appropriate interfaces are configured as either virtual wire, Layer 2, or Layer 3 interfaces. Decryption can only be performed on virtual wire, Layer 2, or Layer 3 interfaces.
    View configured interfaces on the
    Network
    Interfaces
    Ethernet
    tab. The
    Interface Type
    column displays if an interface is configured to be a
    Virtual Wire
    or
    Layer 2
    , or
    Layer 3
    interface. You can select an interface to modify its configuration, including what type of interface it is.
  2. Create a Decryption Policy Rule to define traffic for the firewall to decrypt and Create a Decryption Profile to apply checks to the SSH traffic.
    Although Decryption profiles are optional, it is a best practice to include a Decryption profile with each Decryption policy rule to prevent weak, vulnerable protocols and algorithms from allowing questionable traffic on your network.
    1. Select
      Policies
      Decryption
      , Add or modify an existing rule, and define traffic to be decrypted.
    2. Select
      Options
      and:
      • Set the rule
        Action
        to
        Decrypt
        matching traffic.
      • Set the rule
        Type
        to
        SSH Proxy
        .
      • (
        Optional but a best practice
        ) Configure or select an existing
        Decryption Profile
        to block and control various aspects of the decrypted traffic (for example, create a Decryption profile to terminate sessions with unsupported versions and unsupported algorithms).
    3. Click
      OK
      to save.
  3. Commit
    the configuration.
  4. (
    Optional
    ) Continue to Decryption Exclusions to disable decryption for certain types of traffic.

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