Lightboard Lessons: SSL Outbound Visibility

Great discussion on outbound SSL visibility. You forgot one important option; forwarding of traffic to a cloud-based filter that does everything the devices you mentioned does, in a single pass, and decrypts SSL once to do it. F5 LTM can simply build a GRE tunnel to that cloud service, and without the cost, complexity, and performance hit of distributing across multiple security appliances, or the addition of the SWG module, you have a.) SSL Visibility (even for DLP), b.) Resiliency of the cloud, and c.) Scalability of a cloud security platform that can grow in SSL performance for a reasonable recurring cost, much like you pay on all those security devices sitting in your data center that you backhaul all the traffic to in order to achieve this centralized processing of outbound SSL traffic. Nothing like combining the leader in inbound traffic management and security, with the leader in outbound traffic security in the cloud.