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TJ_92153
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Sep 26, 2012

SSH Security

Is there a way to create a Security Policy for SSH traffic. I have a virtual server listening on port 22. Is there a way i can enable Application Seurity on this?     Thanks   TJ  
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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hoolio
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Oct 05, 2012
Hi TJ,

 

 

ASM does not validate the SSH protocol. You could try to do something with iRules based on layer 4 info like client IP address, connection attempts per time interval and/or GeoIP location data.

 

 

I think it also makes sense to implement more SSH-specific validation on the SSH servers themselves. There are a lot of opensource solutions for securing SSH like:

 

 

http://alternativeto.net/software/ipban/

 

 

Aaron