Tag: nick sullivan

  • Transparency is essential when monitoring your users’ activities

    The inspection of HTTPS traffic is a sensitive issue among security experts. On the one hand, there are those who argue that this breaks the important end-to-end principle of secure connections, while others argue that it is essential if one wants to block malicious network traffic, which is increasingly using HTTPS. I tend to side…

  • Transparency is essential when monitoring your users’ activities

    The inspection of HTTPS traffic is a sensitive issue among security experts. On the one hand, there are those who argue that this breaks the important end-to-end principle of secure connections, while others argue that it is essential if one wants to block malicious network traffic, which is increasingly using HTTPS. I tend to side…

  • VB2017 Small Talk: The encryption vs. inspection debate

    We all know that security often gets in the way of convenience, but sometimes security even gets in the way of security. This is the case, for example, when a decision needs to be made on whether to break an encrypted HTTP connection in order to inspect it for malicious content. HTTPS allows for this to…

  • VB2017 Small Talk: The encryption vs. inspection debate

    We all know that security often gets in the way of convenience, but sometimes security even gets in the way of security. This is the case, for example, when a decision needs to be made on whether to break an encrypted HTTP connection in order to inspect it for malicious content. HTTPS allows for this to…