How Encryption Has Made Your Websites More (and Also Less) Secure, and What to Do About It

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Like most organizations in the EMEA region, you’re most likely familiar with this modern cybersecurity paradox:

  • Encryption makes your websites more secure, with respect to protecting the confidentiality / privacy and integrity of the data being sent over public networks. After almost three decades, the familiar padlock icon and “https://” prefix in web browsers — which indicate encrypted communications, mutual authentication, and advanced features supported with the websites being visited — are finally showing up for nearly 100% of all website traffic.
  • Encryption also makes your websites less secure, because it blocks your ability to see your website traffic — which increasingly includes malware, links to drive-by download sites, ad spyware, phishing attacks, cross-site scripting, and other ever-evolving threat categories.

Learn more about how Zscaler has developed capabilities to help you address this conundrum — for example:

  • To inspect all encrypted website traffic without impacting your end user experience, and
  • To detect and mitigate threats in website traffic while sustaining complex regulatory compliance requirements.
ZScaler EN – Aberdeen Research Report – How Encryption Has Made Your Websites More (and Also Less) Secure, and What to Do About It