Whether you’re a small business operating out of a single office or a global enterprise with a huge and distributed corporate network, not inspecting the encrypted traffic entering and leaving can be a costly mistake, as cybercriminals are increasingly using TLS (Transport Layer Security) in their attacks.
Case in point: in Q1 2020, 23 percent of malware detected by Sophos used TLS to disguise malicious communications. Only a year later, that percentage has nearly doubled (45%)!
TLS encryption: For better and for worse
The widespread use of TLS encryption prevents criminals to steal or tamper with sensitive data and to impersonate legitimate organizations online. Unfortunately, it can also allow malware to fly under the radar and hide from enterprise IT security teams and the tools they use.
“A large portion of the growth in overall TLS use by malware can be linked in part ..
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