perspective Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) was designed to maintain the integrity of transmissions through encryption, authentication and message authentication codes. The protocol’s ability to maintain ...

Cybercriminals know that many higher-ed institutions do not inspect SSL encrypted traffic, which leaves an open attack vector for them to exploit. University networks are often built with an open ...

Encrypting data traffic is mandatory for safeguarding information. But when attackers use encryption to mask their activity, it can be hard for enterprises to figure out what they’re stealing. Gigamon ...

San Jose, CA, December 4 , 2013 – Zscaler, the global security cloud for the mobile enterprise, today announced it had completed a transparent migration of its worldwide cloud infrastructure to enable ...

Online attackers are trying to obscure their encrypted traffic in an attempt to evade detection, using a technique known as "cipher stunting," accoding to Internet infrastructure and security firm ...

Riverbed Technology is adding SSL support to its Steelhead WAN optimization gear, making it possible to accelerate a potentially large volume of network traffic that the equipment couldn’t get at ...

Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing. Strong encryption is ...

The latest network security testing product from Ixia targets cloud data centers and other large companies generating massive amounts of encrypted traffic. The product is called CloudStorm 25GE — the ...

Encryption offers many benefits to improve security, securing the transmission of data for both external and internal network traffic. In general, encryption is gaining wider adoption. According to ...

Encryption can keep bad actors from peeking at critical data, but it can also allow them to hide malicious activity from network defenders. That’s why LiveAction, a network visibility company, has ...

In the last newsletter, we examined IPSec, which has become the de facto protocol for providing security on Internet-based VPNs. We pointed out that while it works great for transparently connecting ...