With the amount of encrypted traffic growing exponentially every year, organizations are left to decide if they should spend millions on recurring firewall upgrades, or leave their existing firewall open to the threat of encrypted cyberattacks by disabling SSL decryption. In this whitepaper, you will learn: Why there is an issue with firewall performance due to SSL/TLS encryption How organizations can leverage software-defined network security to get better visibility The advantages of horizontal scaling and how to integrate it in the most cost-effective manner