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IT and security professionals are continually looking to deliver the benefits of virtualization and cloud technologies without undermining security.
This requires finding ways to provide robust and granular protection for virtual machines (VM) that can meet the specific security requirements of different workloads, while also being deployed as quickly as a VM instance can be created. 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.
Looking at this need observed by Juniper Networks, the company has unveiled Firefly Suite, a virtualized security portfolio that provides granular, dynamic and secure connectivity for the private and public cloud. 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.
Firefly Suite can be embedded throughout the virtual environment including the hypervisor itself or as VMs connected to the various virtual networks, to provide tailored security, automation and control. This approach accelerates service rollout and increases application agility with granular protection that is highly scalable. 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 network.
The Firefly Virtual Security Suite includes three major components - Firefly Perimeter, a new virtual and software-based version of the Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateway; Junos Space Virtual Director, Junos Space application delivering full lifecycle management of Firefly Perimeter VMs; and Firefly Host, formerly known as vGW Virtual Gateway, is a purpose-built firewall for virtualization designed to protect intra-VM traffic.
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