NetScout nGenius Decryption Appliance nDA-2725 – decryption appliance

In an effort to ensure privacy and security of data, encryption of network traffic is often a common practice. SSL/TLS has become the dominant stream-oriented encryption protocol and now constitutes a significant and growing percentage of traffic in the enterprise LAN and WAN, as well as throughout service provider networks. It has proven popular as it is easily deployed by software vendors, while offering privacy and integrity protection.

The nGenius Decryption Appliance (nDA) enables encrypted traffic inspection of SSL/TLS while not compromising the use of SSL/TLS or reducing performance. It is deployed as a transparent inline bump-in-the-wire (BITW) device, enabling it to be used in L2 or L3 environments without having to re-architect networks or configure client devices to explicitly send traffic to proxies. In this mode, the nDA feeds decrypted traffic to inline or passive service assurance and security tools. Alternatively, nDA can be deployed as a passive out of band appliance to decrypt and feed traffic to passively attached service assurance and security tools. When combined with the NETSCOUT nGenius Packet Flow Switches (PFS), service chains comprised of multiple inline or passive tools can also be created.