Manual Chapter : What is F5 Herculon SSL Orchestrator

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F5 SSL Orchestrator

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What is F5 Herculon SSL Orchestrator?

F5® Herculon™ SSL Orchestrator™ provides an all-in-one appliance solution designed specifically to optimize the SSL infrastructure, provide security devices with visibility of SSL/TLS encrypted traffic, and maximize the efficient use of that existing security investment. This solution centralizes and consolidates SSL inspection across complex security architectures, allowing you flexible deployment options to decrypt and re-encrypt user traffic across the Internet and web-based applications. It supports policy-based management and steering of traffic flows to third-party security devices such as firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), anti-malware, data loss prevention (DLP), and forensics tools. It provides a wide range of SSL orchestration analytics that you can easily customize across multiple dimensions based on specified ranges of time.

The Herculon SSL Orchestrator single platform for unified inspection allows for the greatest flexibly without architectural changes to prevent new blind spots from emerging.

Some of the key functions include:
  • Dynamic security service chaining that leverages context-based policies to efficiently deploy security, reduce administrative overhead, and effectively utilize security resources
  • Centralized management of the SSL decrypt and re-encrypt function
  • Inspection of all traffic for malware and data exfiltration with a multi-layered approach
  • Flexible deployment modes to easily integrate the latest encryption technologies across your entire security infrastructure
  • High availability with best-in-class load-balancing, health monitoring, and SSL offload capabilities
SSL Orchestrator solution

Herculon SSL Orchestrator solution