Juniper Connected Security - Building a threat-aware network

Trying to ensure your network is secure often seems like an impossible battle. Many security and network operation teams often face a losing battle of an ever-growing list of software, aiming to ease administration and secure the network. The truth is, more often than not, this software ends up creating further information silos and adding to the barrage of information for the already bewildered specialists to try to understand.

I was recently given the opportunity to attend an exec briefing with some of the security team at Juniper Networks to understand how their approach differs.  

As always I have summerised my findings in the Tech Doodle below.  

Before I delve a little deeper into Juniper Security Director Cloud, let me share with you my top 3 thoughts: 

1.  Juniper Security Director Cloud is a subscription-based service avoiding additional hardware requirements 

2. Juniper Security Director Cloud works well with Juniper and third-party solutions 

3. Juniper Security Director Cloud has intelligent policy management and can make reactive changes based upon threat analysis  

Juniper Security Director Cloud is an as-a-Service subscription-based solution meaning there is no need for additional hardware or complex initial configuration. As mentioned above I was particularly impressed with how it offers customers support for a number of third-party technologies as well as the wealth of solutions within Juniper’s portfolio.

Core to Juniper Security Director Cloud is the belief that the network itself should become threat-aware.  

Utilising in-built intelligence, Juniper Security Director Cloud is able to protect every connection from client to workload from on-premises to the cloud.  

Juniper Security Director Cloud utilises a unified policy set irrespective of the device, but importantly the automation capabilities allow for deduplication, rule precedence and error avoidance within the policies. Critically, Juniper Security Director cloud is not only able to help you monitor your estate, but also make reactive changes based upon threat analysis.

Many organisations are looking for solutions that are able to simplify and centralise security operations. Not only should they help reduce the burden of multiple siloed solutions, but should also look to use intelligence and automation to help proactively protect the network. This is exactly what Juniper Security Director Cloud sets out to achieve. For organisations that are looking to implement SASE (Secure Access Secure Edge) principles, the fact that Juniper Security Director Cloud supports third- party solutions will allow for Juniper Secure Edge solutions to be implemented alongside existing solutions whilst transitioning.

Juniper is also ever innovating in this space and recently announced the addition of CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) and DLP (Data Loss Prevention) into their Secure Edge offering.

It was good to learn more about Juniper’s approach to security and SASE. For me I am really looking forward to seeing this technology in action. A single unified approach to policy and intelligent threat analysis coupled with reactive changes is a very powerful mix. I hope to be able to share some demonstrations of this technology with the Tech Doodles readers soon.

You can learn more about Juniper Connected Security at Black Hat 2022 on booth #2240.

Disclaimer: Tech Doodles through Tech Crossing Limited has been paid by Juniper to create content following the Juniper Networks Analyst, Influencer and Media Global Summit 2021. Whilst Tech Crossing Limited and the authors of this blog post have been paid to create the content, there has been no influence or editorial control by Juniper Networks.