Juniper Networks has integrated its new Juniper Networks vGW Virtual Gateway with the Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways to provide a consistent, virtualisation-aware offering for private and public cloud deployments.
Juniper said its SRX-vGW integration offers organisations visibility into virtualised environments by having the vGW automatically populate virtual machine (VM) membership into Juniper SRX Zones.
The integration offers key benefits: automatic creation of zone-based smart policy groups, automated security classification and enforcement for new or cloned VMs, automated VM compliance assessment based on multiple VM attributes, and quarantine of non-compliant VMs.
Juniper said its vGW Virtual Gateway offers organisations access to robust, comprehensive security optimised for high performance, flexibility and scale in virtualised environments.
Juniper’s integrated offering enables secure enterprise architecture through the isolation of virtual machines (VMs) and visibility into VM traffic layers.
This differentiated approach enables comprehensive security and assurance that multiple VMs within a virtualised environment remain secure and isolated.
vGW security automation also simplifies corporate and regulatory compliance oversight by regulating the creation and movement of VMs virtual environments.
Juniper Networks senior VP and GM of security business unit Douglas Murray said the new offering ensures that security is maintained and enforced right down to each individual VM, while enhancing the operational efficiency of security management.
This integration marks the first step with Juniper’s acquisition of Altor in December 2010 in a multi-phased strategy to combine products for both physical and virtual network environments and provide an automated approach for data center security.
