The NSA recently issued an advisory to enterprises that adopt 'break and inspect' technologies to gain visibility over encrypted traffic, warning them of the potential risks of such an approach. In fact, decrypting and re-encrypting traffic through a proxy device, a firewall, intrusion detection or prevention systems (IDS/IPS) that that doesn't properly validate transport layer security (TLS) certificates, for instance, will weaken the end-to-end protection provided by the TLS encryption to the end-users, drastically increasing...
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