
The wide adoption of SSL/TLS — not only for public internet traffic, but for internal east-west traffic as well — underscores the criticality for inspecting encrypted traffic.
East-west traffic visibility is needed for multiple reasons:
- Detection of laterally moving threats (threat actors are adopting the use of encryption in their attacks)
- Compliance with governance standards that mandate data protection
- Accurate performance measurements
- Faster troubleshooting
In this report, explore key findings from Gigamon’s study of 275 billion HTTP and HTTPS live network flows.