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Securing Greenfield Service Provider Clients


From: "Christopher J. Wolff" <cjwolff () nola gov>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 19:09:45 +0000

Dear Nanog;

Hope everyone is getting ready for a good weekend.  I'm working on a greenfield service provider network and I'm 
running into a security challenge.  I hope the great minds here can help.

Since the majority of traffic is SSL/TLS, encrypted malicious content can pass through even an "NGFW" device without 
detection and classification.

Without setting up SSL encrypt/decrypt through a MITM setup and handing certificates out to every client, is there any 
other software/hardware that can perform DPI and/or ssl analysis so I can prevent encrypted malicious content from 
being downloaded to my users?

Have experience with Palo and Firepower but even these need the MITM approach.  I appreciate any advice anyone can 
provide.

Best,
CJ

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