I visited an infosec trade show recently, you wouldn't believe how many of these boxes are offered to 'improve' corporate security... Most of these boxes will break security chains, spoof DNS responses, require self-signed certs, etc. It's garbage.
Kinda reminded me of 'the box' from the Silicon Valley TV-show. I guess corporate managers will prefer something tangible over actual good practices.
I encountered an interesting one at $bigcorp which required everyone in the corp to install shady certificates, and which would then inject <script> tags in all HTTP responses, including in XML and JSON REST responses. That was fun to debug.
It's pretty common for these devices to require you to install their generated CA cert on every machine in the corporation. Administrators deploy it to the domain with a group policy object IIRC.
Firefox users end up having to install it by hand, or else every website comes up as "you are being attacked by a MITM!!!!", which is technically true.
Sadly this also puts laptop users in the situation that they always need to vpn to the office otherwise sites that use HSTS will break either when on or outside the corporate networks, depending on when you visited the site first.
Okay. Does that also hold when only the CA is installed? On my machine both Safari and Chrome prevent loading google and stackoverflow because when accessing them through the corporate proxy I get a certificate which is signed by the corporate inspection gateway ca.
Kinda reminded me of 'the box' from the Silicon Valley TV-show. I guess corporate managers will prefer something tangible over actual good practices.