F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator vs. Symantec Encrypted Traffic Management

F5 SSL Orchestrator is an ideal software to address the blind spots of the encryption of incoming and outgoing traffic, this is because it provides a high visibility of the traffic. By having a management based on policies allows to carry out a simpler management and obtain a more integration easy with existing infrastructures. It is ideal for reducing costs as it allows the creation of dynamic devices, thereby evaluating whether the traffic should be decrypted or not.

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The Blue Coat encrypted traffic management system is still one of better tools to control, monitor, and secure internet use by employees on a company's network.

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• Provides a flexible, fast and simple implementation.
• Provides strong encryption and decryption of traffic, ensuring high SSL visibility.
• Ensures exposure of threats from inbound and outbound traffic and helps mitigate attacks.
• Allows you to direct traffic through policies which provides better management of it.

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• It can control, monitor and secure internet use by employees
• It can be used to provide user groups accessing necessary web resources.
• Identify the possible violations or troubleshooting

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• It is a software with a somewhat complex documentation so when you are in doubt it is difficult to solve it through its documentation.
• A good knowledge is required in the management of the software, because although its implementation is flexible, carrying it out in the appropriate way guarantees good operation.
• Its price can be somewhat high if it is a small company, however considering its high versatility the investment is worth it.
• Learning curve somewhat steep, but you can count on the support of your support team.

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• Categories changes more specified or detailing
• Some categories are confused to cause access denies
• Some functionalities can be simplified

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OpenSSL is a simple software to use, with a complete documentation and an easy installation and ideal for encrypting and decrypting and making certificates, however F5 SSL Orchestrator can be implemented in different ways, it provides a high visibility of the traffic which does not miss any threat It wants to hide in encrypted traffic, but its biggest advantage is that it helps to better manage and does not provide static but dynamic devices so it is possible to decrypt once or encrypt once, it is for all these powerful features that F5 SSL Orchestrator was chosen.

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Blue Coat Encrypted Traffic Management gives you a means to layered control internet accesses to differentiate teams or groups accordingly.

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• By providing a high vision of inbound and outbound traffic, we manage to avoid the entry of threats and the exposure or loss of data from our business infrastructure.
• Its policy based management is very helpful, since it is much simpler to manage SSL traffic and to be aware of any attack coming from it and to apply security controls to all business traffic.

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• Definitely the tools give us a better means to manage internet usage.
• With other network tools/appliances, it protects company's assets.

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