BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator

Protect against encrypted threats

Bad actors take advantage of SSL/TLS encryption to hide malicious payloads to outsmart and bypass security controls. Don’t leave your organization vulnerable to attack with security solutions that can’t inspect encrypted traffic efficiently at scale. BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator delivers high-performance decryption of inbound and outbound SSL/TLS traffic, enabling security inspection that exposes threats and stops attacks before they happen.

• Outbound Traffic Visibility - Protect against outbound traffic dispersing malware, exfiltrating data, or reaching out to a command-and-control server to trigger attacks.
• Inbound Traffic Visibility - Decrypt incoming encrypted traffic to ensure it’s not hiding ransomware, malware, or other threats that lead to attacks, infections, and data breaches.
• Next-Gen Encryption Protocol Inspection - Prevent new security blind spots by enabling greater flexibility without requiring architectural changes through full-proxy and diverse cipher support.

Intelligently manage encrypted traffic

You need orchestration to be on top of your security game. Visibility into and inspection of SSL/TLS traffic is a start, but it only scratches the surface. Daisy-chaining or manually configuring security solutions to support inspection across your security stack’s not scalable and ineffective. BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator intelligently manages the decrypted traffic flow across your entire security stack.

• Centralize Control - Unify decryption across multiple inspection devices to stop unsupported cipher use, fake SSL/TLS connections, and infrastructure complexity.
• Policy-Based Steering - Group, monitor, and steer traffic with a flexible context engine—regardless of network topology, protocol, and cipher.
• Dynamic Service Chaining - Create dynamic, logical security service chains with existing security solutions based on the type of incoming traffic, ensuring optimal security and availability.

Detect Shadow AI

Shadow AI—the unsanctioned use of AI tools—introduces critical blind spots and can expose your organization to vulnerabilities. Simply blocking tools like generative AI might seem like an easy solution, but for most, it’s impractical. With BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator, you gain the visibility and control needed to easily address the risks of Shadow AI without compromising innovation.

• Real-Time Traffic Decryption - Expose GenAI activity hidden in encrypted traffic through proactive detection.
  
  
• Dynamic Traffic Routing - Use service chaining to direct high-risk actions through DLP, WAF, or other inspection tools based on risk levels.
  
  
• Programmable User Coaching - Deliver customized, in-the-moment alerts to guide users and prevent security policy violations.

Mitigate Ransomware

Ransomware is one of the fastest growing cybersecurity threats. What once was an uncommon threat now makes up almost half of all attacks. Unfortunately, ransomware shows no signs of slowing down. It’s critical you protect your organization from ransomware sneaking in through encrypted payloads. BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator maximizes your ability to block these attacks by creating a comprehensive ransomware defense.

• Inspect Outgoing Traffic - Fend off ransomware attacks and data exfiltration to “drop zones” by inspecting outbound traffic.
• Restrict Tenant Access - Ensure users only access known and used domains to block inadvertent redirection or accidental access to attacker domains, ending credential theft.
• Mitigate Phishing Attacks - Prevent ransomware by stopping access to malicious phishing sites and infections from malignant attachments.

Hardware

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Software (virtual edition)

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