The primary benefit of using SSL/TLS is to guarantee secure scanning over an IP network by restricting unauthorised users from reading data sent to the machine. SSL's most important benefit is that it can be used to scan confidential data securely. For example, a Human Resource (HR) Department in a large company may be scanning wage slips on a regular basis. Without encryption, the data contained on these wage slips can be read by other network users. However, with SSL/TLS, anyone trying to capture the data will see a page of code and not the actual wage slip.