Juniper Networks Advances the SASE MarketJuniper Networks Leans into SASE with Announcement of Juniper Security Director CloudCloud-based portal helps customers transition seamlessly and securely to a SASE architecture by safeguarding users, applications and infrastructure amid network transformationJuniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, announced that the company is continuing its investment in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market with the introduction of Juniper® Security Director Cloud, a cloud-based portal that distributes connectivity and security services to sites, users and applications, as well as manages customers’ SASE transformations. Technology disruptors, such as 5G and an increasingly distributed workforce, are changing how organizations do business and architect their networks. Enterprises, as well as cloud and service providers, are shifting from monolithic centralized data center architectures to SASE, decentralized architectures that bring services closer to end-users around the globe. Juniper Security Director Cloud bridges organizations’ current security deployments with their future SASE rollouts by providing security that is managed anywhere and everywhere, on-premises and in the cloud, from the cloud. Benefits include:
“Juniper is leading the move into the SASE market with a great management experience, putting our customers and their teams first,” said Samantha Madrid, VP of Security Business & Strategy at Juniper Networks. “With the introduction of Security Director Cloud, we’re able to meet customers where they are as they transition to a SASE architecture by delivering networking and security services from the cloud to sites, users and applications around the world. Security Director Cloud is like ‘iCloud’ for security operators, providing the ‘and’ strategy that enables our enterprise, cloud and service provider customers to transform their networks seamlessly and securely.” As a security provider, Juniper has gained market momentum with a consistent string of growth and awards, including being named as a Customers’ Choice in the April 2021 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer” for Network Firewalls, and by CRN as a Top-20 Coolest Network Security Vendor for the second year in a row. In addition, Juniper experienced double-digit revenue growth in security year-over-year for Q1 of 2021, including growth across all customer verticals. This puts Juniper in a unique position to support customers as they transform their networks and implement a SASE architecture. With the announcement of Security Director Cloud and the recent acquisition of 128 Technology’s Session Smart SD-WAN, Juniper Networks leads the market in successfully converging networking and security, aligning to its Connected Security strategy, effectively supporting both on-premises and distributed workforces and ensuring the best possible experience for all. Supporting quotes: “Over the past year, as our
workforce became more distributed, securely managing our network across
multiple international data centers was a challenge. Juniper gets that
challenge and, with Security Director Cloud, we are able to centralize
management in the cloud as we move to SASE. Now, we can support a distributed
workforce and my team can secure all our locations, users and applications
without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. The unified security
management solution also helps us address availability, logging and consistent
policy enforcement more effectively.” “Juniper Connected Security coming
together with Session Smart technology is excellent news for our business.
Having started our Juniper journey with 128 Technology, we are happily looking
forward to adding their full SASE capabilities to our offering, with both
validated security efficacy and AI-driven SD-WAN, that allow us to best
facilitate our customers’ network transformations.” Source: Juniper Networks media announcement |