An administrator is assisting a security engineering team with a decryption rollout for inbound and forward proxy traffic. Incorrect firewall sizing is preventing the team from decrypting all of the…

Financial, health, and government traffic categories often contain highly sensitive personal data and are frequently *excluded* from decryption policies due to strict privacy regulations and compliance requirements, rather than prioritized for inspection.

While traffic from less-trusted internal IP subnets might warrant inspection, the focus for *initial* decryption rollout under resource constraints for inbound and forward proxy traffic is typically on external threats and critical assets, not internal network segments.

Prioritizing decryption for known malicious IP space ensures that the firewall can thoroughly inspect potential threat communications to or from compromised entities, helping to detect and prevent advanced attacks.

Decrypting high-risk traffic categories (e.g., P2P, anonymizers, unrated URLs) allows the firewall to apply threat prevention and data filtering policies to obscure traffic that is more likely to contain malware or policy violations.

Decrypting traffic destined for public-facing servers enables the firewall to inspect inbound encrypted connections for exploits, web application attacks, and other threats targeting critical external-facing infrastructure.