Deploying SSL inspection: Everything you need to know
Enhance the security of your communications with SD-WAN security solutions.
Deploying SSL inspection: Everything you need to know
Enhance the security of your communications with SD-WAN security solutions.
SSL or Secure Sockets Layer is an SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) internet security protocol based on encryption technology used to protect data.
Encrypted data transmitted across the web prevents anyone from intercepting it. Any threat actor who tries to intercept the communications would only see an altered, unintelligible mix of characters, successfully stopping them from using your information for malicious purposes.
Under SSL encryption, only verified devices or users—authenticated via a handshake—can interpret the transmitted data. It also digitally signs data to improve data integrity, ensuring that data is not tampered with before reaching the intended recipient.
SSL or Secure Sockets Layer is an SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) internet security protocol based on encryption technology used to protect data.
Encrypted data transmitted across the web prevents anyone from intercepting it. Any threat actor who tries to intercept the communications would only see an altered, unintelligible mix of characters, successfully stopping them from using your information for malicious purposes.
Under SSL encryption, only verified devices or users—authenticated via a handshake—can interpret the transmitted data. It also digitally signs data to improve data integrity, ensuring that data is not tampered with before reaching the intended recipient.
Securing your communications
The inspection protocol is used in services like instant messaging and emails.
Today, SSL is also securing the World Wide Web traffic between a website and a web browser encoded with the HTTP protocol that executes the HTTPS protocol.
You’ll also be able to:
Detect malicious
content
Protect against DDoS
attacks
Allow better access
management
Determine when large amounts of data leave your network
Should organisations invest in it?
While SSL encryption helps protect your sensitive information—passwords and credit card details, for example—it’s not the only legitimate information that can be sent via encrypted traffic.
As cyberattack threat actors become more innovative, encrypted traffic is now also used to send malicious content, masked from users and unnoticed by common security mechanisms; putting your digital assets at higher risk.
According to the latest statistics, 91% of malware attacks have been sent using encrypted traffic.
This highlights a need for strong SD-WAN security solutions that can encrypt traffic and intercept malicious content before it can damage your infrastructure.
Should organisations invest in it?
While SSL encryption helps protect your sensitive information—passwords and credit card details, for example—it’s not the only legitimate information that can be sent via encrypted traffic.
As cyberattack threat actors become more innovative, encrypted traffic is now also used to send malicious content, masked from users and unnoticed by common security mechanisms; putting your digital assets at higher risk.
According to the latest statistics, 91% of malware attacks have been sent using encrypted traffic.
This highlights a need for strong SD-WAN security solutions that can encrypt traffic and intercept malicious content before it can damage your infrastructure.
The mechanism behind the scene
SSL inspection reviews encrypted communication between the client and the server.
The inspection process places an interception device between the server and the client, decrypting all the network traffic that passes through. This is similar to the technique used in man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks.
Once decrypted, the interceptor then scans the content via inspection methods like antivirus scanning, web filtering, and email filtering to identify anomalous activities or malicious content.
Then the data is encrypted and sent to the recipient via another SSL connection.
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FAQs
Today, SSL is the de-facto technology for authentication and encryption, with over 56% of businesses fully encrypting their traffic. Unfortunately, there is also a rise in malware campaigns that use encryption.
If your organisation wishes to counter and deflect malicious content in your encrypted traffic, you need a robust solution that detects these threats.
The process helps detect malicious content in your traffic that would otherwise be masked via encryption.
This means you can prevent large amounts of data from being stolen or exfiltrated by attackers, protect your communication channels, and mitigate cyber threats faster before they can further damage your network, devices, and organisational reputation.
As a cybersecurity solutions provider, we will help your organisation identify the existing vulnerabilities in your digital ecosystem using a range of security solutions, including SD-WAN security services
To further understand how our cryptography solutions can help you tighten your security architecture, get in touch with the VOROR team today!
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