{"id":91668,"date":"2018-09-24T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=91668"},"modified":"2019-05-06T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T22:47:25","slug":"ssl-decryption-series-decrypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/ssl-decryption-series-decrypt\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL Decryption Series: Why Decrypt?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Encrypted internet traffic is on an explosive upturn. According to the Google\u00ae Transparency Report: \u201cUsers load more than half of the pages they view over HTTPS and spend two-thirds of their time on HTTPS pages.\u201d[1]<\/strong><\/a> At the same time, encrypted traffic carried nearly 3.5 million unique malware samples in 2017. In this series, we\u2019ll dive into the case for decryption, including where and how you should enable it to meet your company\u2019s needs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Encryption is a great means for secure and private business information exchange, and it is necessary for compliance. However, as encrypted traffic is essentially opaque data, it leaves organizations blind to the security threats contained inside. Unfortunately, cyber criminals have learned to exploit this lack of visibility and identification to hide from security surveillance and deliver malware.<\/p>\n

Legitimate websites that use SSL can be infected with malware. Moreover, attackers increasingly use SaaS applications to deliver malware. An attacker can place an infected file in a legitimate shared folder in an organization\u2019s sanctioned file storage application, such as Box or Dropbox\u00ae, and from there, the infected file can easily spread to users who sync their files with the folder.<\/p>\n

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\nWithout the ability to decrypt, classify, control and scan encrypted traffic, it\u2019s impossible for an organization to adequately protect its business and its valuable data from modern threats. This is where decryption \u2013 the ability to decrypt, inspect and re-encrypt internet traffic before it is sent to its destination \u2013 comes into play.<\/p>\n

Decryption, one of the \u201c10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do<\/a>,\u201d is required for several security-related actions, including threat prevention, advanced malware prevention, file blocking, data filtering and blocking of malicious web and application traffic. We invite you to attend our webinar this Thursday, September 27 to learn the \u201chow and whys\u201d of SSL Decryption and get your questions answered live. Click here to register<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/transparencyreport.google.com\/https\/overview?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Navneet Singh explores the hows, whys and importance of SSL Decryption. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":71030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6717,6765],"tags":[74,747],"coauthors":[1915],"class_list":["post-91668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-firewall","category-products-and-services","category-secure-the-enterprise","tag-malware","tag-ssl-decryption"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/generic-social-media-blog-c-600x300.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92658,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91668\/revisions\/92658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91668"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=91668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}