SUNNYVALE, Ca. – Juniper Networks is updating its Adaptive Threat Management solution to include new capabilities around identity-based security and WAN acceleration, dynamically-provisioned anti-spyware and anti-malware, and identity-based, application-specific enforcement.
The networking vendor has been building out its Adaptive Threat Management solution since last summer when it made announcements around high-end routing and switching, but now it’s broadening the solution.
While WAN acceleration capabilities have been available for some time, the new WAN acceleration capabilities in the Juniper product are focused around identity- and role-based WAN acceleration combined with security, said Tim Richards, director of product management at Juniper Networks.
“Basically improving the performance of teleworkers, remote access workers, but also not compromising on security, as well, and delivering a true solution,” he said.
Juniper’s new WAN optimization technology was designed to work with its Secure Access product for authentication checks, but it can also function o its own. Designed to be simple so users don’t need to be trained on it, it addresses security in a way that works with security policies so they don’t need to be changed, Richards said. Additionally, it also addresses auto-provisioning and auto-deployment with zero-touch deployment that preserves security capabilities.
Juniper is also extending the remote access product line so it can dynamically provision anti-spyware and anti-malware. According to the company, this will offer a 40 per cent increase in effectiveness at blocking, detecting and removing spyware threats.
Richards described it as support for anti-spyware/anti-malware deployments from a secure, unified access control policies. It can be deployed transparently, provisioning down to desktops automatically.
“It’s really extending the capabilities of anti-virus … into the spyware/malware,” he said.
It gives customers another option when they have home/remote users or when they prefer to simply use a different type of deployment.
Additionally, Juniper is also bringing together identity- and application-specific controls through its intrusion prevention system (IPS) products, but it’s also increasing the scale of the performance to be faster then competing solutions, according to Richards.
The performance has been extended to 30Gbps worth of throughput. It also provides the ability for the IPS to feed back into the Juniper Unified Access Control and Secure Access products to provide control, access and metrics related to tracking behavior of applications and the usage of those applications.
“It’s broadening the solution out instead of just point products,” Richards said.
Juniper has also made an update to its Network and Security Manager (NSM) and Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) packages with additional configuration and provisioning, as well as more rapid threat response.
“Adaptive Threat Management for the distributed enterprise really focuses around two key fundamental concepts — being able to be aware of a user’s identity and being aware of the application,” Richards said.
For the channel, the new additions to Adaptive Threat Management offer them the ability to talk to their customers about growing traffic rates and how they can be dealt with through the increase in performance of the solution, he said.
“We’ve certainly been briefing our partners for awhile. Most of our partners are already what I would call portfolio partners. They’re selling multiple product lines and solutions. I think this gives them some significant incremental benefit,” Richards said.
This column was written by Chris Talbot of ConnectIT, an IntegratedMarCompany
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