Juniper Networks Cloud Security

Posted on June 1, 2017

by PY

Cloud security is top of mind for most businesses considering Cloud.

Cloud computing is creating a new world of benefits for users and providers alike, but is also creating new concerns around security and risk management that must be dealt with for cloud computing to reach its ultimate potential. In fact, when it comes to cloud computing, security has been a major inhibitor for businesses. This is why security needs to be consideration number one for any service provider planning to offer hosted cloud computing services.

To provide security in the cloud, it is necessary to address the most significant underlying technology of the cloud: virtualization of workloads and servers. Service providers want to employ the largest pool of shared resources possible for their offerings because the more they can host on their virtualized infrastructure, the more business they can take on. But key to maximizing the effectiveness of this virtualized capacity is security purpose-built for the environment. For applications leveraging a virtual server/virtual machine environment, adding hypervisor-based security to the architecture is the only way service providers can truly optimize for scale, while enabling the granular segmentation required to guarantee isolation of multi-tenant resources as well as consistently high performance.

While traditional security architectures (such as network-based firewalls and intrusion prevention system devices) are essential to the security of the physical network of the cloud, they provide no visibility into the traffic generated in the virtualized part of the network (i.e., traffic flowing between virtual machines housed on a host server). Understanding this, Juniper Networks has developed a security architecture that offers integrated solutions to protect both physical and virtualized workloads, provides visibility and protection for the entirety of the cloud computing environment, and makes secure multi-tenancy possible in the cloud computing world

 

Access the full paper here: Juniper Networks Cloud Security

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