You Can't Stop What You Can't See: Addressing Encrypted Cloud Traffic
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
While AI is the shiny new distraction when it comes to cybersecurity, the most immediate and threatening problem has yet to be solved: Visibility into an organization's encrypted cloud traffic.
You can't protect what you can't see, and the very technology that is supposed to secure traffic - transport layer security (TLS), otherwise known as encrypted traffic - is actually a perfect hiding place for cybercriminals.
As most organizations continue to operate in multi-cloud environments to keep pace with today's digital workforce, we've simultaneously seen an exponential growth in encrypted traffic, accounting for roughly 95% of all network traffic. While encryption was once created with the intent to protect sensitive data, it limits an organization's view into traffic patterns where malicious actors may be lurking and creates a more complex landscape for security operations (SecOps) teams to detect the 'needle in the haystack' and prevent a threat actor from stealing an organization's most valuable asset: its data.