Our Security and Privacy on the Encrypted Network paper tackles setting security policies to ensure that data doesn’t leak out over encrypted tunnels, and that employees adhere to corporate acceptable use policies, by decrypting traffic as needed. It also addresses key use cases and strategies for decrypting network traffic, including security monitoring and forensics, to ensure you can properly alert on security events and investigate incidents. We include guidance on how to handle human resources and compliance issues because an increasing fraction of network traffic is encrypted.

Check out this excerpt to get a feel for why you will encrypt and decrypt more on networks in the near future:

Trends (including cloud computing and mobility) mean organizations have no choice but to encrypt more traffic on their networks. Encrypting the network prevents adversaries from sniffing traffic to steal credentials and ensures data moving outside the organization is protected from man-in-the-middle attacks. So we expect to see a much greater percentage of both internal and external network traffic to be encrypted over the next 2-3 years.

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Check out the landing page for Security and Privacy on the Encrypted Network or download it directly (PDF).

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