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US Federal Sites Use HTTPS – Daily Security Byte EP.94

June 9, 2015 By Corey Nachreiner

HTTPS usage has skyrocketed over the last few years, largely due to the “Snowden effect.” Today, the US government mandated that federal web sites must use HTTPS. Ultimately, this is a good thing. However, malicious actors can hide in HTTPS too. Watch today’s video to learn what you should do to secure HTTPS.

 

(Episode Runtime: 2:48)

Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sceDGVyyQXw

EPISODE REFERENCES:

  • US Government makes HTTPS a federal standards – Silicon Republic
  • The HTTPS-Only standard – CIO.gov

— Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Federal, Hacking, HTTPS, HTTPS DPI, HTTPS Inspection, Infosec news, Microsoft, Software vulnerabilities, U.S., Updates and patches

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  1. wilderness says

    June 9, 2015 at 8:57 am

    What configuration changes are needed before a WG firewall can inspect HTTPS?

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    • Corey Nachreiner says

      June 9, 2015 at 9:02 am

      You need to configure the HTTPS Proxy or ALG (application layer gateway). The most important part of the configuration, however, is actually going to the XTM or Firebox’s certificate store and getting our CA Certificate for the HTTPS proxy. In order to keep the trust chain for HTTPS working (so that all your users don’t get a message that HTTPS is broken), you need to distribute this certificate to all your internal users, so they can add it to their browser certificate store. You can use Microsoft group policy to do that easily. If you check out our help, there are instructions for setting it up.

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  2. Monty says

    June 29, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    Our XTM 515 HTTPS Proxy for IPS provide no Forward Secrecy. Is there a update planed?

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