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Kevin_Stewart
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Apr 28, 2014

ASM is a WEB application firewall. It operates on web (HTTP) traffic at OSI layer 7. If you do not decrypt the OSI layer 6 SSL, then you cannot see the OSI layer 7 HTTP payload. If you cannot see the decrypted HTTP payload, then there is nothing for ASM to protect.