By 2016, it's estimated that 67 percent of Internet traffic will be encrypted, according to the Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight: Encrypted Internet Traffic report, May 2015. Although encryption can be used for goodimproving message confidentiality and integrityit can also be used as a means to conceal hackers' activities.
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Encrypted traffic accounts for a large and growing percentage of all network traffic. While the adoption of SSL should be cause for celebration as encryption improves confidentiality and message integrity it also puts organizations at risk.