FeatureReinforcing the importance of a secure and reliable connection to the network to protect the organisation’s data and digital assets from threats is key.
Accelerated by the pandemic, we have experienced an increased interest from organisations to support them on their digital journeys. While 2020 has been a challenging year for many, others have used the opportunity to seriously re-think their digital strategy.
What has become clear is that businesses know they must rapidly innovate, take advantage of new digital tools and leverage cloud services to emerge from the crisis with momentum for the long-term transformation of their business in the altered global landscape.
Even before employees started working from home, organisations were beginning to move toward distributed networks as employees were increasingly using various end devices and connecting to a range of networks that may not be deemed safe as they progress through an average day.
With so many endpoints and networks the challenge is to keep remote users connected and productive, while ensuring business continuity and security. In addition, reinforcing the importance of a secure and reliable connection to the network to protect the organisation’s data and other valuable digital assets from potential threats is also key.
Juniper Networks offers a comprehensive range of products, solutions and services that tackle this challenge from a networking perspective. Juniper Networks Connected Security helps organisations to safeguard users, applications, and infrastructure, unifying all the network elements into a threat-aware network. It dynamically enforces security policies across every point of connection.
Undeniably, the onset of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns country to country was initially a surprise as it was for everyone. But we quickly pivoted to helping our customers adjust their networks in line with changing business priorities secure and reliable home working at scale, for example.
Overall, we have seen huge interest in our automation portfolio across routing, switching and security. The ability to automate routine process within the network is a very powerful tool – for example, being able to automatically push regular security updates across the infrastructure without the risk of human error.
The AI-driven enterprise is a related area that many of our customers are also seizing, bridging the gaps between the network, applications, security, devices and ultimately deliver high quality user experiences.
Network visibility is an important issue that security teams have struggled with. With each new connection, risk increases – especially when it comes to IoT devices. Not all connected devices can run secure operating systems, be patched, or run endpoint agents.
With a huge percentage of the workforce suddenly working at home and services that once ran on dedicated secure networks having to operate outdoors and in remote locations, there is much more opportunity to introduce risk. This is primarily due to increased network traffic, which attracts attackers who are ready to take advantage of the chaos.
Extending visibility and enforcement to every point of connection on the network is essential. Customers do not have to own the device or the application to secure it. Let the network do that. This is the premise of Juniper Connected Security; security starts with the network.
