diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b331970..3a758e0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Babel>=1.3
 
 attrdict>=2.0.0
 lxml>=3.4.0
-paramiko>=1.14.0
+paramiko>=2.4.2
 prettytable>=0.7.2
 pymongo>=2.7.2
 pytz>=2016.4
diff --git a/vmtp/log.py b/vmtp/log.py
index 21916e2..9bca9bc 100644
--- a/vmtp/log.py
+++ b/vmtp/log.py
@@ -30,12 +30,6 @@ def setup(product_name, debug=False, logfile=None):
         file_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(file_formatter_str))
 
     # Add appropriate handlers to loggers
-
-    # This is to workaround the paramiko logging issue when SSH failed
-    paramiko_logger = logging.getLogger("paramiko.transport")
-    paramiko_logger.addHandler(console_handler)
-    paramiko_logger.setLevel(log_level)
-
     console_logger = logging.getLogger(product_name + '_' + 'console')
     console_logger.addHandler(console_handler)
     console_logger.setLevel(log_level)
@@ -49,7 +43,6 @@ def setup(product_name, debug=False, logfile=None):
 
     if file_handler:
         file_logger.addHandler(file_handler)
-        paramiko_logger.addHandler(file_handler)
         all_logger.addHandler(file_handler)
 
 def getLogger(product, target):