Research on Encrypted Traffic Threats

It has been estimated that encrypted traffic provides the cover for almost half of today’s cyber-attacks. The concerted, blended, always-morphing and never-ending character of network-borne attacks masked by encryption demands a response in kind.

• 4 in 10 (41%) respondents feel that they don’t have a very good understanding of how to repel such attacks

• Over a third of the audience that have not deployed decryption say the main reason is user privacy (36%)