To ensure effective SSL inspection, what must organizations do with their root certificates?

Deploying root certificates widely across client devices is essential for effective SSL inspection. When organizations implement SSL inspection, they effectively act as intermediaries between the client’s device and the server to decrypt and inspect SSL/TLS traffic for security purposes. In order to do this without triggering security warnings in the client devices, the organization's root certificate must be trusted by those devices.

By ensuring that the root certificates are installed on all client devices, organizations can establish trust for the SSL inspection process. This allows for legitimate SSL traffic to be decrypted and inspected without causing certificate errors or alerts, thereby maintaining a seamless user experience while ensuring security policies are enforced.

Having root certificates in only a physical secure location or storing them in a cloud solution do not facilitate the required trust on client devices. Additionally, using them exclusively for VPN purposes restricts their functionality and does not address the broader need for SSL inspection across various applications and data flows in an organizational setting.