Most enterprises have a number of network security appliances that provide protection against attacks aimed at enterprise computing resources, as well as prevent the loss of sensitive enterprise data due to leakage. They work by matching network traffic with threat signatures or tracking application state as a means to detect suspicious behavior. One guaranteed way to ensure that these types of security appliances will not detect threats or data loss is to prevent signature matching and state tracking from working; the easiest way to do this is to encrypt network traffic.
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Smoking Out Attackers Hiding in Encrypted Data
Posted by: David Wells September 11, 2010 05:00 AMMost enterprises have a number of network security appliances that provide protection against attacks aimed at enterprise computing resources, as well as prevent the loss of sensitive enterprise data due to leakage. They work by matching network traffic with threat signatures or tracking application state as a means to detect suspicious behavior. One guaranteed way to ensure that these types of security appliances will not detect threats or data loss is to prevent signature matching and state tracking from working; the easiest way to do this is to encrypt network traffic.