Juniper Zero Trust Data Center

As data centers become more distributed, organizations face increased risk due to architectural blind spots. Securing these centers of data also becomes more complex as the number of centers multiplies. Juniper Networks addresses these challenges with an experience-first approach to security and operationalizes this architectural transition.

Juniper’s Zero Trust Data Center security solution offers the industry's first distributed services architecture, which integrates with Juniper's routing infrastructure. It provides four new high-performance, compact, and power-efficient firewalls in the expanded SRX Series, AI-predictive threat prevention, and a unified platform to manage firewalls and policies across all environments.

The Juniper Zero Trust Data Center security solution enables organizations to implement Zero Trust and operationalize the transition to new architectures at their own pace, empowering them to secure their data centers effectively.

Benefits of the Juniper Zero Trust Data Center security solution include:

• Scale out like never before
  Scale horizontally and elastically, regardless of form factor, and manage all firewalls as one logical unit for near-infinite scale without complexity. With Juniper’s Connected Security Distributed Services Architecture, you can remove single points of failure and limitations associated with chassis size and form factor.
• Unified platform and a single policy framework
  Create policies once and apply them across all environments (hybrid, cloud, on-premises) and firewalls of all form factors via a unified platform. These policies are dynamic, follow the applications and data regardless of location, and are aligned with user and device policies. With Juniper, you get unbroken visibility, policy configuration, administration, and collective threat intelligence using a single interface.
• High-security efficacy with performance
  Security should never slow down your network and negatively impact user experience. With Juniper, you no longer have to choose between performance and security. For the past five years, Juniper has been consistently validated by multiple third-party tests as the most effective security technology on the market, with over 99.7% security efficacy across all use cases. Our latest SRX Series Firewalls are ultra-high-performance, compact, and power-efficient.
• Threat-aware network
  Juniper integrates security across all platforms from Layers 2–7 of the OSI model, turning the network into sensor and enforcement points. With the Juniper Zero Trust Data Center security solution, you can stop compromise and lateral movement at every point of connection in your network, reducing the overall impact of data breaches.

Any organization, big or small, looking to secure its centers of data and operationalize Zero Trust across its network without worrying about scalability, efficacy, and performance should deploy the Juniper Zero Trust Data Center security solution. It leverages your existing investments and allows you to orchestrate, provision, and manage security deployments and extend all existing policies efficiently and effectively to new environments via a single user interface.

These are the four data center security use cases managed via the Security Director Cloud:

1. DC WAN gateway (DC access protection)
   Control who and what can access resources—data, applications, and services—in your data center. The DC WAN gateway is the first line of defense, and access policies must align with user policies at the edge.
2. Intra-DC (east-west traffic and segmentation)
   Prevent attackers from moving laterally inside on-premises or cloud DCs by creating microsegments that limit the impact of a successful attack. 
3. Cloud/DC interconnect (application connectivity and data exchange)
   Control data flow while optimizing scale. The data in transit between data center locations should be secured, whether between two cloud data centers or an on-premises and a cloud DC.
4. Public cloud (application access and data exchange)
   Many public cloud environments offer their own native security controls, but within Zero Trust, access to public cloud resources must align with application access policies in your other data center environments.

The core components of the Juniper Zero Trust Data Center security solution are:

Security Director Cloud: Use Juniper Security Director Cloud for a simple and seamless firewall management experience across on-premises, cloud-based, cloud-delivered, and hybrid security deployments. You get unbroken visibility, policy configuration, administration, and collective threat intelligence all in one place, using a single interface.

SRX Series Firewalls: The SRX Series are industry-leading, high-performance next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) with proven security efficacy that protect critical data and applications and secure access by enforcing and aligning policies across all data center environments, including private cloud, public cloud, and cloud-native. These firewalls are available in physical, virtual, and containerized form factors, all managed via a single user interface.

Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention: Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) is the threat intelligence hub for the network, featuring a litany of built-in advanced threat services that use the power of AI and ML to detect attacks and optimize enforcement. Juniper ATP finds and blocks commodity and zero-day malware within files, IP traffic, and DNS requests. The service assesses risk from encrypted and decrypted network traffic and connecting devices, including IoT, and distributes that intelligence throughout the network to stop attacks and drastically decrease the attack surface before a breach occurs.

Our team of experts is ready to assist you throughout the entire process, from start to finish. Contact our sales department for guidance and recommendations on the most suitable solutions for your business needs.