Welcome to this Additional Tool Capabilities module.
We want to briefly touch on topics not covered on this course,
but which are relevant to you, the cybersecurity professional.
The first capability of Squid, which we did not touch on and
which is of relevance, is interception caching. Squid can be used
to intercept HTTP and HTTPS traffic,
which makes it very valuable as a cybersecurity tool. For
more information, check out this link.
Another capability of Squid not discussed involves the
multiple off mechanisms that are available.
Some of these include LDAP and MySQL Database authentication. You can
even mix and match multiple authentication schemes in your Squid proxy.
Check out this link for more info here.
Squid is also very useful when it comes to man‑in‑the‑middle attacks.
Squid can be used to help understand these attacks better in order to
better defend against them using a feature known as SSL bumping. Check
out this link for more info there. On the topic of SSL encryption and
decryption, related Squid topics include ICAP, or Internet Content
Adaptation Protocol.
When intercepting traffic with Squid, traffic can be content
adapted using an external ICAP server.
Squid also performs dynamic SSL cert generation as a part of this SSL
bump feature. Squid is a very useful tool from a cyber security point of
view when it comes to protecting your network.
These links are quite large,
so for easy access you can click on the links in the
PDF provided along with the course.
Thank you.