Part 1: Understanding the rise and impact of malicious, encrypted network traffic
Digital innovation holds multiple advantages for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) — it’s also creating a threat landscape like nothing we’ve experienced in the past.
For cybercriminals, this changing threat surface offers plenty of opportunities for attack — the cloud-enabled global workforce is part of an active Internet population of 4.5 billion and growing.
In fact, even before COVID-19 drove a daily reliance on cloud apps and remote access technologies, web-based attacks were climbing. New data from Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report reveals that in 2019, more than 43% of breaches were caused by attacks on web applications — more than double the results from last year.
While the growing volume of Internet traffic requires robust data protection, encryption technologies like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) — key tools for securing web traffic and enabling secure Internet usage — are also being leveraged by cybercriminals to stage malicious, web-based attacks.
In our new What’s Hiding in SSL/TLS Traffic? white paper, we provide key insights to help managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) understand the growing risks of encrypted network traffic and discover how cloud-based security strategies can better defend against these new threats.
Let’s take a look at both the trends driving malicious, encrypted traffic and the challenges for MSPs and MSSPs.
Trends driving the growth of encrypted traffic
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