{"id":54187,"date":"2023-10-18T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3708671\/juniper-delivers-distributed-data-center-security-protection-firewalls.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-10-18T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T15:59:00","slug":"juniper-delivers-distributed-data-center-security-protection-firewalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/juniper-delivers-distributed-data-center-security-protection-firewalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Juniper delivers distributed data-center security protection, firewalls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juniper Networks has expanded its security portfolio with an architecture design that includes AI-based predictive threat support and a new family of firewalls, all designed to protect distributed data center resources.<\/p>\n

The central piece of the expanded portfolio is the new Juniper Connected Security Distributed Services Architecture. It\u2019s implemented in a new version of the vendor\u2019s core Junos operating system (version 23.4) and enables a variety of security features from zero trust policy enforcement to intrusion detection and prevention across distributed data center networks.<\/p>\n

Since Junos runs across Juniper\u2019s entire product family, including QFX Series Switches, MX Series Universal Routers, SRX Series firewalls and more, all of those systems can be included in the Distributed Services Architecture. This enables customers to set up universal protection and policies for networks, data, and applications, and it\u2019s all controlled by the vendor\u2019s Security Director Cloud for setting and managing security policies.<\/p>\n

The key point is that new and existing customers just need to run the Junos code that supports the Security Distributed Services Architecture, said Mike Spanbauer, a technology evangelist with Juniper Security. \u201cIt isn’t going to be a licensed feature. It’s going to be part of what it means to secure your network environment with Juniper.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of these data center environments have grown so incredibly sprawled and complex that it has become difficult to ensure security for the distributed applications that those network and security teams are responsible [for managing and securing],\u201d Spanbauer said. \u201cWhat we are trying to do with Security Distributed Services Architecture is greatly simplify data center operations and offer a path to solving some of the most complicated and challenging issues within the data center.\u201d<\/p>\n

A key part of the new architecture is an AI-predictive threat prevention feature that ingests data from a variety of sources, including Juniper devices and its own research as well as third-party applications, to update its threat signature database and detect behavior anomalies. The idea is to help customers and partners to predict and identify real threats faster, Spanbauer said.<\/p>\n