Juniper Networks has announced security portfolio enhancements that enable threat prevention deeper into the network to the switch level. These new and upgraded solutions were launched at Juniper’s NXTWORK 2016 user conference. The solutions include a new Policy Enforcer, which automates the enforcement of security policies across the network and quarantines infected endpoints to prevent threats across firewalls and switches through the Junos Space Security Director. The company has also announced that the Juniper Networks’ Sky Advanced Threat Prevention will now be available on the vSRX virtual firewall as well as across the SRX series services gateways, thereby extending protection from sophisticated malware across virtual and physical firewalls. Moreover, Juniper has provided customers with the flexibility to meet their specific needs through new mid-range SRX4000 Series firewalls optimised for hybrid cloud and enterprise campus environments.
According to the company, network threats are evolving at an accelerated rate, thus posing a challenge to organisations. These conditions call for fast and intelligent security systems across networks that are built around real-time threat prevention, automated enforcement and adaptive protection. To this end, Juniper’s Software-Defined Secure Networks platform addresses this need with an open and unified architecture, and by extending security enforcement across the entire network. The solution enables users to rapidly react to newly identified threats across the network. These capabilities allow organisations to leverage simple user intent-based threat policies and take advantage of integrated threat prevention that detects attacks while dynamically updating enforcement at multiple points throughout the existing network infrastructure. Further, this approach reduces the need for manual updates, and automatically applies policies and enforcement rules, driving down the cost of managing network security. The solutions also enable enterprises to prevent threats from reaching the infection points and from spreading, thereby improving the efficacy of security operations.
