SSL Orchestrator allows you to define chains of security devices, based on the policies you establish around the characteristics of traffic. This helps you get the most value from the entire security stack, while making it simpler to manage.
The growth of SSL/TLS encryption presents a challenge for businesses because, without security tools to inspect SSL traffic, attacks can go undetected. Attackers are using these blind spots to freely do whatever they want.
Today, the percentage of SSL traffic exceeds 70 percent. Between half and three-thirds of attacks hide their communications in that encrypted traffic.
ALTERNATIVES
- Do nothing and lose visibility.
- Take advantage of existing security devices to do decryption when they have this capability. But this can have a huge impact on traffic latency due to the chaining of SSL operations.
- The solutions out there use statically configured chaining for security devices which means no intelligent decisions are made. about the traffic or the user. All user sessions are treated the same and, in most cases, are sent to all security devices, increasing latency and the use of these expensive assets.