A survey on omnipresent HTTPS and its impact on network security monitoring

Abstract

HTTPS is gaining widespread popularity for performing secure transactions. Most popular sites have made default choice as HTTPS. Therefore, this paper makes a survey through various study done in the area and it has comprehensively explored the various tools, technologies, and mechanisms to deal with secured network in a robust way. We make a complete analysis and evaluation of HTTPS protocol–is it ensuring security or are we entering into a vicious cycle of finding weaknesses and trying to fill the gaps in Network security Monitoring. The gaps like Man In The Middle, active and passive attacks on device, compromising response time or accessibility at the cost of security are among the most important ones that has been explored and proposed solutions for various research studies. Data collected from couple of up to date research works and their conclusion has been discussed to provide a brief overview so as to provide the reader with global understanding of the research progress in this area.