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Jim_M_172559
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Nov 19, 2014

How "transparent" is transparent mode in ASM?

When setting up Application Security Manager, it's standard to set a security policy to "transparent" for a virtual server, watch what violations it catches, revise as needed and then change from tra...
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Tikka_Nagi_1315
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Transparent just mean non-blocking. ASM will do everything to learn and track the traffic without blocking it.

 

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Jim_M_172559
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Jul 14, 2016

At the very least, transparent is a misleading term. It didn't block the response, but it did mangle it.