What is hybrid mesh security?

What is hybrid mesh security?

Hybrid mesh security, which is inclusive of hybrid mesh firewall platforms, is an architecture that bridges on-premises and cloud-native security through a single control point. It enables organizations to define and enforce security policies between workloads and between users and workloads in mixed IT environments using a common policy framework. IT teams can consistently deploy security across on-premises, cloud-native, and cloud-delivered environments simultaneously from a single management console. 

With hybrid mesh firewall platforms, organizations can connect multiple security enforcement points across networks spanning hybrid environments that consist of both on-premises and multicloud locations. They can use any combination of firewall form factors — hardware, virtual, cloud-native, and cloud-delivered — for unified visibility, management, and control. The architecture also extends zero-trust principles from the network edge into the data center. 

What problems does hybrid mesh security solve?

Many organizations are finding it a challenge to juggle disparate security management consoles to secure their various IT environments. Multiple management systems for different deployments break visibility and lack consistent security policy-setting and enforcement capabilities. They create aoperational headaches on top of the complexities IT teams already experience as they struggle to support growing remote workforces and deploy new architectures, such as secure access service edge (SASE) and zero-trust models. Multiple systems also increase the potential for misconfiguration and human error.

The hybrid mesh security architecture opens up visibility and simplifies security management by consolidating multiple vendors and point technology solutions into fewer, well-integrated offerings. The results are reduced security administration overhead and fewer misconfigurations, which improves an organization’s hybrid cloud security posture.

How does hybrid mesh security work?

The hybrid mesh security architecture uses centralized management software and a single-policy construct to simplify security policy creation, deployment, and management. It integrates security controls for different edge and data center environments into a single policy set that can then be applied to new and existing firewall, SASE, and application security deployments. In addition, hybrid mesh security aggregates events across those environments into a single dashboard to provide a clear, contextualized view of users, data, infrastructure, and potential threat activity. 

Juniper Hybrid Mesh Security Solution

Juniper Hybrid Mesh Security, powered by Security Director Cloud, enables organizations to improve hybrid cloud security. They can use the solution to create and enforce consistent security policies across mixed on-premises and cloud environments and seamlessly transition to new architectures. The solution also expands zero trust across the network from the edge all the way into the data center to applications and microservices.

With Juniper Hybrid Mesh Security, organizations have unbroken visibility, policy configuration, administration, and collective threat intelligence capabilities all in one place. Organizations can manage security everywhere with unified policies that follow users, devices, and applications wherever they go.

Juniper Hybrid Mesh Security facilitates a threat-aware network that enforces security policy across all the links that bind an organization’s numerous networks together, including hardware firewalls, virtual firewalls, cloud-native firewalls, cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE) protection, switches, routers, and gateways. The solution offers the following capabilities and benefits:

• See and manage all resources — Extend visibility and control to distributed workforces and hybrid environments through a simple, seamless management UI.
• Bolster security — Create policies once and apply them anywhere, reducing misconfigurations and avoiding security gaps.
• Reduce costs — Save time and associated expenditures by integrating technologies into a central control point and easing complexity.
• Work smarter — Adopt new architectures faster and more easily by removing the pain of long and complex ramp-up processes.