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Security Director
As Juniper's simple and seamless management experience, Security Director is delivered in a single user interface (UI) to connect customers' current deployments with their future architectural rollouts. Security Director enables you to secure your architecture with consistent security policies across any environment and expands zero trust to all parts of the network from the edge into the data center. You’ll have unbroken visibility, policy configuration, administration, and collective threat intelligence all in one place.
Juniper meets you where you are, helps you leverage your existing investments, and empowers you to transition to your preferred architecture at the best pace for business by automating your transition with Security Director Cloud.
Key Features
- Manage tens of thousands of sites simultaneously
- Create policies for validated threat prevention, user and application access control, secure connectivity, and more — and apply them anywhere
- Protect private and public cloud workloads with metadata-based security controls
- Correlate and analyze each stage of an attack in sequence, regardless of which product made the detection, and stop threats across your network with one-click mitigation
- Security assurance guarantees that security rules are always placed correctly for intended effectiveness
Features + Benefits
Centralized Management
Configure and manage application security, firewalls, and security intelligence, along with VPN, IPS, and NAT security policies, all through a single interface, available both on-premises and in the cloud.
Scalable Security Policy
Extend security policies across tens of thousands of SRX Series firewalls and site locations while granularly managing several logical system instances for each individual SRX Series device.
Actionable Attack Insights
Automatically correlate detection events across your security stack, track each stage of an attack, and prioritize security incidents based on risk and severity.
Logging and Reporting
Get detailed reporting when you need it with robust logging capabilities.
Infrastructure Optimization
Optimize the network infrastructure for security management innovations with Security Director.
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Security Director
Centralized security management, network-wide visibility and analytics, and unified policy orchestration secure your network and expand Zero Trust from the edge into the data center.
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Juniper Security Director and Security Director Cloud FAQs
What are Juniper Security Director and Security Director Cloud?
Juniper gives you the flexibility to comprehensively manage network security with two product options that address whether your network is fully on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.
- Juniper Security Director provides extensive security policy management and control for on-premises infrastructure through a centralized, Web-based interface. It helps you manage security consistently across your private network.
- Juniper Security Director Cloud connects customers’ current deployments with their future architectural rollouts from a single, unified interface, delivering a simple and seamless experience. You can secure your architecture with consistent security policies across on-premises, cloud-based, cloud-delivered, and hybrid environments. That includes expanding zero trust to all parts of the network, from the edge all the way into the data center and to the applications and microservices. With Security Director Cloud, you have unbroken visibility, policy configuration, administration, and collective threat intelligence all in one place.
What are the main features and benefits of Security Director and Security Director Cloud?
- Scalability that supports managing tens of thousands of sites simultaneously
- Ability to create policies for validated threat prevention, user and application access control, secure connectivity, and more — and apply them anywhere
- Security controls that protect private and public cloud workloads
- Ability to correlate and analyze each stage of an attack in sequence, regardless of which product detected the attack, and stop threats across your network with one-click mitigation
- Security assurance guarantees that security rules are always placed correctly for the intended effectiveness
Who should deploy Security Director Cloud?
Organizations that run a mix of IT environments — on-premises, cloud-based, cloud-delivered, and hybrid — can secure their infrastructures with consistent security policies end to end, all from a single management interface. In addition, those running Security Director on-premises and expanding their infrastructures to the cloud can take advantage of the bidirectional sync between Security Director, Security Director Cloud, and their on-premises and individual firewalls for seamless operations.
What use cases do the latest Security Director and Security Director Cloud releases support?
Security Director and Security Director Cloud address comprehensive security in distributed networks, whether they’re exclusively on-premises or span both private and public clouds. The products let you centrally create and manage your security policies from a single unified interface and automatically enforce those policies across on-premises-only networks or a mix of on-premises, cloud-based, cloud-delivered, and hybrid environments.
How do the products work in hybrid cloud environments?
Unified policy management follows the user, device, and data across your distributed network infrastructure without you having to copy or recreate rule sets. It’s also easy to deploy cloud-delivered application control, intrusion prevention, content and Web filtering, and effective threat prevention without breaking visibility or security enforcement.
What license options are available for Security Director and Security Director Cloud?
Juniper offers licensing subscription models for cloud, software, and services while supporting hardware-led licensing for customers who require that option. Contact your Juniper representative to discuss an appropriate license tier for your needs.
Can I test Security Director Cloud before investing in a license?
To sign up for a trial account, please visit the Juniper Security Director Cloud trial page.
Where can I get help deploying Security Director and Security Director Cloud?
Security Director deployment instructions and resources are available from the TechLibrary in Juniper’s Security Director Installation and Upgrade Guide. Additionally, Juniper has a full slate of training and professional services available to meet your needs. Consult your Juniper sales representative for more information or contact support for additional assistance. To get started with Security Director Cloud, check out this Quick Start Guide.
How do I upgrade to the latest Security Director or Security Director Cloud release?
To upgrade from a previous Security Director release, simply follow the steps found in the TechLibrary. When using Juniper Security Director Cloud, you never have to worry about upgrading to the latest version. You always have the latest version when you log in from your preferred web browser.