SSL/TLS as a Potential Threat Vector

The use of SSL/TLS encryption is increasing as enterprises strive to meet increasingly stringent security mandates, while trying to ensure optimal SEO rankings, deploy more workloads to the cloud and make wider use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. To put this challenge into perspective, 95 percent of internet traffic around the globe is now encrypted.[1]

Unfortunately, encryption isn’t limited to well-meaning parties. Consider that over 3.3 million cyber-attacks in 2022 were hidden in encrypted traffic and that cybercriminals are using encryption to conceal malware, hide command-and-control traffic and cloak the exfiltration of stolen data.

Given the amount of encrypted traffic, including with the latest TLS 1.3 cryptographic protocol, the threat vector it now poses and the importance of traffic inspection for a Zero Trust posture, you need a way to efficiently decrypt SSL traffic, share it with tools and then re-encrypt it.