Juniper Network unveils next-gen security products

With Juniper's new products, service providers can now achieve advanced protection against data exfiltration, website outages, other serious threats

Juniper Networks, a provider of networking solutions, today unveiled its next-generation security products for protecting data center environments, fortified by the Junos Spotlight Secure, a global attacker intelligence service.

Spotlight Secure will give customers definitive intelligence about threats, attackers and individual devices across a wide number of networks and Juniper security products, the company said in a statement.

With Juniper’s new products, enterprises and service providers can achieve advanced protection against data exfiltration, website outages and other serious threats, it said.
 
Today, companies are struggling to keep pace with the increasing volume and sophistication of cyber-attacks, particularly those aimed at web applications and servers, which deal in high-value traffic and typically reside in data centers.

According to a new Ponemon Institute report , commissioned by Juniper Networks, web-based attacks (62%) and Denial of Service attacks (60%) were cited as the most serious types of attacks experienced by the respondents’ companies.

Moreover, a majority (61%) of IT and IT security practitioners surveyed also indicated current next-generation firewalls and IP reputation feeds only address part of the cyber security threat.

That leaves significant exposure to the most concerning attacks and protecting against these attacks requires security systems that incorporate real-time, definitive and actionable intelligence about attackers, the company said.
 
To effectively secure data centers Juniper believes companies must have knowledge of the attacking devices, not just the IP address, and quickly disseminate that intelligence across the data center and into the network. Juniper Networks can deliver this intelligence through its Junos Spotlight Secure global attacker intelligence service, which acts as the consolidation point for attacker and threat information, feeding real-time intelligence to Juniper’s security solutions, the company claimed.