Juniper Networks, a global network providers, today unveiled Firefly suite, a virtualized security portfolio that provides granular, dynamic and secure connectivity for the private and public clouds.
The suite introduces Firefly Perimeter, a virtual version of the Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateway, as well as Junos Space Virtual Director, an application that automates the management and deployment of Firefly Perimeter. When combined with enhancements to Firefly Host, which provides hypervisor-based protection between virtual machines, the suite secures traffic within a virtualized data center as well as traffic to and from it.
The Firefly suite proactively protects virtual workloads and applications in real-time with security intelligence, automation and unified control over virtual firewalls, enabling organizations to
securely leverage these new cloud computing technologies.
“IT leaders have been seeking innovative solutions to secure both the infrastructure and data that can keep up with the rigorous demands of their business and leverage the cloud in a smart and evolutionary way. Juniper’s Firefly suite allows companies to attach, create and manage security policy across physical and virtual firewalls with a high level of flexibility supporting error-free, fast scale out deployment for the most demanding environments. We provide complete protection for the cloud and from the cloud,” said Michael Callahan, vice president global product marketing, Security Business Unit, Juniper Networks.
Administrators will benefit from the rich automation capabilities supporting error-free deployment and unified management making it easy to create, attach and change security policies consistently across the networks.
The Firefly Virtual Security suite includes three major components:
Firefly Perimeter
· Juniper is introducing Firefly Perimeter, a new virtual and software-based version of the Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateway.
· Firefly Perimeter delivers high availability, granular security with segmentation capabilities between zones, organizations, lines of business and applications, as well as rich connectivity features
like Network Address Translation (NAT), routing and VPN. Firefly Perimeter can be easily deployed and managed centrally or individually as a security VM for each department, application or tenant.
· Juniper Networks Contrail seamlessly integrates with Juniper’s flagship virtual firewall, Firefly Perimeter, to dynamically provision service-chained virtual and physical security services in cloud
environments, which is the first of many Juniper SDN-enabled NFV security services that provides unparalleled performance, scale and coverage across virtualized data centers for enterprises and service providers.
Junos Space Virtual Director
· Also new with this release is Virtual Director, a new Junos Space application delivering full lifecycle management of Firefly Perimeter VMs.
· Junos Space Virtual Director is a lifecycle management application that enables organizations to automate provisioning and resource allocation of virtual machines associated with Firefly Perimeter VMs.
· This includes intuitive and easy-to-navigate and user interface with task-oriented workflows, pre-tested configuration, open APIs for integration with third-party management platforms.
Firefly Host
· Firefly Host, formerly named vGW Virtual Gateway, is a purpose-built firewall for virtualization designed to protect intra-VM traffic.
· Firefly Host provides hypervisor-based stateful firewall for East-West traffic between virtual machines, including integrated intrusion detection (IDS), virtualization-specific antivirus (AV) protection and compliance tools, with management scale.
· Firefly Host is tightly integrated into the VMware hypervisor and VMware management framework.
· Synchronization of security policies across Firefly Host management centers provides automated policy management and granular control of VMs for multi-tenant environments with unparalleled performance in the industry.
Firefly Security suite is a collection of software products designed and licensed to meet the unique needs of protecting cloud deployments, designed for scale and flexibility. Customers are assured the rights to future innovation on these products with the purchase of software maintenance.
These licenses scale with the customers’ needs without any disruption, and are offered both as perpetual and subscription licenses, providing the spend flexibility to customers, to meet their business goals. Juniper Firefly Host is available today. Firefly Perimeter and Junos Space Virtual Director will be released in Q1 2014.