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BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator

Maximize infrastructure and security investments with dynamic, policy-based decryption, encryption, and traffic steering through security inspection devices.

Inbound + outbound High-performance decryption
Dynamic service chaining Across your security stack
Hybrid PQC Strong cipher support
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Overview

What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You

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.

Orchestration

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.

Shadow AI

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.

Ransomware

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.

Product Overview

F5 dynamic traffic steering

BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator enhances SSL/TLS infrastructure, makes encrypted traffic visible to security solutions, and optimizes existing security investments. It delivers dynamic service chaining and policy-based traffic steering—applying context-based intelligence to encrypted traffic handling to intelligently manage the flow of encrypted traffic across the security stack—and ensures optimal availability and security.

Hardware — Deploy high-performance hardware in your on-premises data center or collocation facility.
Software (virtual edition) — Deploy on any hypervisor within your data center, collocation facility, or in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Core Capabilities

Robust decryption/re-encryption and orchestration of encrypted traffic

If you’re not inspecting SSL/TLS traffic, you’ll miss attacks and leave your organization vulnerable.

Visibility SSL/TLS visibility Provides SSL/TLS decryption and encryption, strong cipher support—including hybrid PQC—and flexible deployment options.
Chaining Dynamic service chaining Provides service insertion, service resiliency, service monitoring, and load balancing.
Context Context-based intelligence Supports geolocation, IP reputation, URL categorization, and third-party ICAP integration.
Control Granular control Header changes, support for port translation, and control over ciphers and protocols.
Devices Supports various inspection devices Supports inline layer 2 and 3, HTTP proxy, ICAP, and passive/receive-only inspection services.
Modes Supports many deployment modes Standalone, cluster, and separate ingress/egress tiers.
Proxy Transparent and explicit proxy Intercepts and inspects traffic without requiring any special client configuration.
Scale Scales security services Scales with high availability, F5’s best-in-class load balancing, health monitoring, and SSL/TLS offload capabilities.