99.7% security effectiveness
Juniper received a 99.7% exploit block rate with zero false positives in the CyberRatings’ 2024 Cloud Network Firewall Report.
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Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
Juniper Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture secures your workforce on and off the network with effective security that follows users wherever they go. This AI-optimized experience ensures the network is not just up, but is working well. With Juniper SASE, you can keep users and devices connected and protected wherever they are by delivering zero-trust access to any application from anywhere while optimizing every connection.
Juniper meets you where you are and takes you where you want to go by leveraging what you have today and extending your zero-trust initiatives to a cloud-delivered architecture without breaking the bank or your ops team.
Juniper offers full-stack Security Service Edge (SSE) and SD-WAN capabilities that leverage the power of the cloud to optimize both the network and the security experience.
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Unified visibility and policy management
When securing your distributed workforce, cloud-delivered security is not enough. Unbroken visibility from client to workload, security assurance, and a single policy framework are the most important tools to help you bridge your current investments with your SASE rollout and do it easily and effectively. With Juniper, you can manage security anywhere and everywhere, on-premises and in the cloud, from the cloud with unified policy management that follows users, devices, and applications wherever they go.
Secure user access from anywhere
Protect data and provide users with consistent and secure access that follows them wherever they go. With Juniper, you can reduce risk by leveraging effective threat prevention services proven to be the most effective on the market to inspect traffic, ensuring secure access to web, SaaS, and on-premises applications from anywhere.
Empower the network to optimize itself
Harness the power of AI to ensure reliable and crystal-clear network connectivity. Juniper AI-Driven SD-WAN enables you to keep your users connected and leverages AI, your network team’s secret weapon, to improve user experience and make it easy to stay ahead of problems.
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Security Director
Centralized security management, network-wide visibility and analytics, and unified policy orchestration secure your network and expand the Zero Trust security model from the edge into the data center.
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Juniper Secure Edge
Full-stack Secure Services Edge (SSE) capabilities protect web, SaaS, and on-premises applications while providing users with consistent and secure access that follows them wherever they go. When combined with Juniper AI-driven SD-WAN, it provides a best-in-suite SASE solution so organizations can deliver seamless and secure end user experiences that leverage existing architectures and grow with them as they expand their SASE footprint.
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Session Smart Router
Our software-defined router provides a flexible, application-aware network fabric that meets stringent enterprise performance, security, and availability requirements. Its Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) policy and URL filtering allow it to selectively enforce various attack detection and prevention techniques on network traffic.
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What is SASE?
SASE is an acronym for “Secure Access Service Edge” and is pronounced “sassy.” Coined by Gartner in 2019, it describes a modern cybersecurity architecture. SASE focuses on bringing security services closer to users and granting them the appropriate level of access based on their risk level at that moment.
SASE is the embodiment of networking converged with security. It provides strong protection from attack regardless of the user’s location and ensures consistent enforcement wherever users are, without having to backhaul traffic to a corporate location. This process is transparent to users and delivers a more secure environment.
What problems does SASE solve?
Many organizations have a complicated network infrastructure: distributed sites, remote users, too many appliances. The operational complexity of these elements creates significant management and maintenance challenges for SecOps teams.
Many security controls use their own security management system, each with their own configuration processes and interoperability challenges. This situation often produces visibility gaps that can increase risk and overwhelm IT teams. On top of that, fluctuations in network traffic and application diversity require additional resources to accommodate usage spikes while minimizing latency.
Most IT teams have invested a lot of time and money preparing for traffic increases and the expected barrage of cyberattacks. They’re often forced to make tough decisions between accessibility and security. That’s because traditional architectures backhaul traffic to a centralized network hub for security inspection and then route it to the desired application or service. This process, while highly secure, negatively impacts performance and budget, especially when it becomes clear that additional capacity is needed.
A SASE architecture, by contrast, inspects traffic and makes services accessible at points of presence near the user’s geolocation. Extra resources can be elastically added to accommodate peak demand, then scaled down when demand decreases. By eliminating traffic backhauling, businesses no longer need to choose between security and accessibility, making the end user experience seamless and reducing risk.
How does SASE create a “threat-aware” network?
SASE delivers networking and security solutions together as one cohesive service that addresses an organization’s network and security management challenges. IT teams can use all points of connection on the network to see, automate, and protect against malicious activity, instead of being restricted to performing these tasks in a data center gateway or at the physical network perimeter.
These capabilities empower the network to be “threat aware,” meaning able to detect threats and stop them from gaining a foothold in the network. As a result, safeguarding user identities, applications, and infrastructure becomes easier.
SASE delivers the threat-aware network for the public cloud era and should ultimately improve security while reducing complexity and streamlining management. By making security easier to manage, SASE enhances the operational feasibility of the network.
What are the benefits of SASE?
It’s essential to understand that SASE is not a single product. It’s an architectural shift in how networking and security technologies are implemented. A SASE architecture helps evolve today’s corporate networks with:
- Improved security: Bad actors use any means necessary to attack a network, so it’s critical to have consistent security policies and services networkwide to safeguard users, infrastructure, and applications wherever they reside. SASE delivers an enhanced security solution that’s easy to deploy and leverages distributed connection points to apply security policy and enforce threat prevention for stronger end-to-end security.
- Greater operational agility: Networkwide visibility is critical to quickly assess application and network health and to identify potentially malicious activity. Through a reduction in complexity, existing resources can do more and see farther. The natural convergence of the network with security capabilities provides one clear focal point for system administrators. Policy consistency reduces configuration errors and enhances overall security efficacy.
- Increased ease of use: Historically, organizations have had to deal with routing traffic through multiple layers of defense and primary “choke points” where firewalls are situated. This is in addition to many other controls to manage. With SASE, on the other hand, the focus is on the direct connection from the client device to the cloud.
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Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls, 16 May 2023, Adam Hils, Rajpreet Kaur, Thomas Lintemuth.
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