Securing Encrypted (SSL) Web Traffic
As the World Wide Web was maturing, organizations realized that if they encrypted the HTTP packets that were transmitted between a website and a client, it would make it virtually unreadable to anyone who would potentially intercept those packets. This led to the adoption of SSL encryption for HTTP traffic.
Of course, encrypted packets also create somewhat of a dilemma from an intrusion detection and analysis perspective, because it is impossible to read the content of the packet to determine what it is trying to do. Indeed, many HTTP exploits in the wild today can be transmitted over secure SSL-encrypted channels. This poses a dangerous situation for organizations that must secure the traffic against interception ...
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