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.

Security Assurance

Automate security policies across the network, including firewalls, routers, and switches, for accurate enforcement, consistent security, and compliance.

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.

99.9% Security Effectiveness

Juniper received a “AAA” Rating in CyberRatings’ Enterprise Network Firewall Report, demonstrating a 99.9% exploit block rate with zero false positives.

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CUSTOMER SUCCESS

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More than 1.5 million people call the City of Philadelphia home. It’s the birthplace of liberty and the cheesesteaks. Philadelphia is also an innovator in advanced IT services, with a citywide network that supports 30,000 workers in dozens of departments from first responders to urban planners. The city’s Juniper backbone has delivered 99.99% uptime over more than five years. 

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Security Director

Centralized security management, context-driven network-wide visibility and analytics, and unified policy orchestration secure your network and expand zero trust from the edge into the data center.

Technical 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
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Secure Edge

Juniper Secure Edge provides full-stack Security Services Edge (SSE) capabilities to protect web, SaaS, and on-premises applications and provide users with consistent and secure access that follows them wherever they go. When combined with Juniper’s AI-Driven SD-WAN, Juniper Secure Edge provides a best-in-suite SASE solution that helps organizations deliver seamless and secure end-user experiences that leverage existing architectures and grow with them as they expand their SASE footprint. 

Technical Features
  • Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) identifies applications and inspects traffic for exploits and malware with over 99.8 percent effectiveness.
  • Secure Web Gateway (SWG) protects web access by enforcing acceptable use policies and preventing web-borne threats.
  • Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) provides visibility into SaaS applications and granular controls to ensure authorized access, threat prevention, and compliance.
  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Classifies and monitors data transactions and ensures business compliance requirements and data-protection rules are followed.
  • Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Gives remote users secure access to corporate and cloud resources, providing reliable connectivity and consistent security to any device, anywhere. Reduces risk by extending visibility and enforcement to users and devices wherever they are.
  • Advanced Threat Prevention. Discovers zero-day malware and malicious connections, including botnets and C2, even when traffic cannot be decrypted. Enforces granular protection mechanisms, such as file quarantine and reduced access rights. 

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