Security Director

As Juniper's simple and seamless management experience, Security Director is delivered in a single user interface (UI) to connect customers' current deployments with their future architectural rollouts. Security Director enables you to secure your architecture with consistent security policies across any environment and expands zero trust to all parts of the network from the edge into the data center. You’ll have unbroken visibility, policy configuration, administration, and collective threat intelligence all in one place.

Juniper meets you where you are, helps you leverage your existing investments, and empowers you to transition to your preferred architecture at the best pace for business by automating your transition with Security Director Cloud.

Key Features


  • Manage tens of thousands of sites simultaneously
  • Create policies for validated threat prevention, user and application access control, secure connectivity, and more — and apply them anywhere
  • Protect private and public cloud workloads with metadata-based security controls
  • Correlate and analyze each stage of an attack in sequence, regardless of which product made the detection, and stop threats across your network with one-click mitigation
  • Security assurance guarantees that security rules are always placed correctly for intended effectiveness

Features + Benefits

Centralized Management

Configure and manage application security, firewalls, and security intelligence, along with VPN, IPS, and NAT security policies, all through a single interface, available both on-premises and in the cloud.

Scalable Security Policy

Extend security policies across tens of thousands of SRX Series firewalls and site locations while granularly managing several logical system instances for each individual SRX Series device.

Security Assurance

Automate security policies across the network, including firewalls, routers, and switches, for accurate enforcement, consistent security, and compliance.

Actionable Attack Insights

Automatically correlate detection events across your security stack, track each stage of an attack, and prioritize security incidents based on risk and severity.

Logging and Reporting

Get detailed reporting when you need it with robust logging capabilities.

Infrastructure Optimization

Optimize the network infrastructure for security management innovations with Security Director.

99.9% Security Effectiveness

Juniper received an “AAA” rating in CyberRatings’ 2023 Enterprise Network Firewall Report, demonstrating a 99.9% exploit block rate with zero false positives.

Read report

CUSTOMER SUCCESS

Philadelphia Advances Smart City Vision

More than 1.5 million people call the City of Philadelphia home. It’s the birthplace of liberty and the cheesesteaks. Philadelphia is also an innovator in advanced IT services, with a citywide network that supports 30,000 workers in dozens of departments from first responders to urban planners. The city’s Juniper backbone has delivered 99.99% uptime over more than five years. 

City of Philadelphia Image

Comparable Products

Graphic representing Juniper Security Director, a centralized, security management system.

Security Director

Centralized security management, network-wide visibility and analytics, and unified policy orchestration secure your network and expand zero trust from the edge into the data center.

Technical Features
  • Manage tens of thousands of sites simultaneously
  • Create policies for validated threat prevention, user and application access control, secure connectivity, and more — and apply them anywhere
  • Protect private and public cloud workloads with metadata-based security controls
  • Correlate and analyze each stage of an attack in sequence, regardless of which product made the detection, and stop threats across your network with one-click mitigation
  • Security assurance guarantees that security rules are always placed correctly for intended effectiveness
Currently viewing
Graphic representing Juniper Secure Edge, a cloud based security solution.

Secure Edge

Juniper Secure Edge provides full-stack Security Services Edge (SSE) capabilities to protect web, SaaS, and on-premises applications and provide users with consistent and secure access that follows them wherever they go. When combined with Juniper’s AI-Driven SD-WAN, Juniper Secure Edge provides a best-in-suite SASE solution that helps organizations deliver seamless and secure end-user experiences that leverage existing architectures and grow with them as they expand their SASE footprint. 

Technical Features
  • Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) identifies applications and inspects traffic for exploits and malware with over 99.8 percent effectiveness.
  • Secure Web Gateway (SWG) protects web access by enforcing acceptable use policies and preventing web-borne threats.
  • Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) provides visibility into SaaS applications and granular controls to ensure authorized access, threat prevention, and compliance.
  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Classifies and monitors data transactions and ensures business compliance requirements and data-protection rules are followed.
  • Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Gives remote users secure access to corporate and cloud resources, providing reliable connectivity and consistent security to any device, anywhere. Reduces risk by extending visibility and enforcement to users and devices wherever they are.
  • Advanced Threat Prevention. Discovers zero-day malware and malicious connections, including botnets and C2, even when traffic cannot be decrypted. Enforces granular protection mechanisms, such as file quarantine and reduced access rights. 

Discover 283% ROI with Juniper Connected Security

Check out the recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of Juniper Connected Security report to learn more.

Live Events and On-Demand Demos

Explore the journey to a transformed network.
Demand more from your network
See what industry-leading AI and ML can do for you.

Related Solutions

Security

Make your network threat aware. The Juniper Connected Security portfolio safeguards users, data, and infrastructure by extending security to every point of connection, from client to cloud, across the entire network.

Next-Generation Firewall

Juniper next-generation firewalls reduce the risk of attack and provide granular control of data, users, and devices through identity-based policies, microsegmentation, VPN connectivity, and validated threat prevention.

SD-WAN

AI-based insights and automation simplify deployments and reduce troubleshooting time while a tunnel-free architecture eliminates inefficiencies, scaling limitations, and cost constraints of legacy solutions.

Public Cloud Security

Accelerate public cloud adoption securely with simple deployment, consistent security, and unified management experience at every level: within workloads, between applications and instances, and across environments.

Data Center Networks

Simplify operations and assure reliability with the modern, automated data center. Juniper helps you automate and continuously validate the entire network lifecycle to ease design, deployment, and operations.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Juniper SASE secures the workforce with effective security that follows users wherever they go and an AI-optimized network experience. Juniper meets you where you are and takes you where you want to go without breaking the bank or your ops team.

Juniper Security Director and Security Director Cloud FAQs

What are Juniper Security Director and Security Director Cloud?

Juniper gives you the flexibility to comprehensively manage network security with two product options that address whether your network is fully on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.

  • Juniper Security Director provides extensive security policy management and control for on-premises infrastructure through a centralized, Web-based interface. It helps you manage security consistently across your private network. 
  • Juniper Security Director Cloud connects customers’ current deployments with their future architectural rollouts from a single, unified interface, delivering a simple and seamless experience. You can secure your architecture with consistent security policies across on-premises, cloud-based, cloud-delivered, and hybrid environments. That includes expanding zero trust to all parts of the network, from the edge all the way into the data center and to the applications and microservices. With Security Director Cloud, you have unbroken visibility, policy configuration, administration, and collective threat intelligence all in one place.

What are the main features and benefits of Security Director and Security Director Cloud?

  • Scalability that supports managing tens of thousands of sites simultaneously
  • Ability to create policies for validated threat prevention, user and application access control, secure connectivity, and more — and apply them anywhere
  • Security controls that protect private and public cloud workloads 
  • Ability to correlate and analyze each stage of an attack in sequence, regardless of which product detected the attack, and stop threats across your network with one-click mitigation
  • Security assurance guarantees that security rules are always placed correctly for the intended effectiveness

Who should deploy Security Director Cloud?

Organizations that run a mix of IT environments — on-premises, cloud-based, cloud-delivered, and hybrid — can secure their infrastructures with consistent security policies end to end, all from a single management interface. In addition, those running Security Director on-premises and expanding their infrastructures to the cloud can take advantage of the bidirectional sync between Security Director, Security Director Cloud, and their on-premises and individual firewalls for seamless operations.

What use cases do the latest Security Director and Security Director Cloud releases support?

Security Director and Security Director Cloud address comprehensive security in distributed networks, whether they’re exclusively on-premises or span both private and public clouds. The products let you centrally create and manage your security policies from a single unified interface and automatically enforce those policies across on-premises-only networks or a mix of on-premises, cloud-based, cloud-delivered, and hybrid environments.

How do the products work in hybrid cloud environments?

Unified policy management follows the user, device, and data across your distributed network infrastructure without you having to copy or recreate rule sets. It’s also easy to deploy cloud-delivered application control, intrusion prevention, content and Web filtering, and effective threat prevention without breaking visibility or security enforcement.

What license options are available for Security Director and Security Director Cloud?

Juniper offers licensing subscription models for cloud, software, and services while supporting hardware-led licensing for customers who require that option. Contact your Juniper representative to discuss an appropriate license tier for your needs.

Can I test Security Director Cloud before investing in a license?

To sign up for a trial account, please visit the Juniper Security Director Cloud trial page.

Where can I get help deploying Security Director and Security Director Cloud?

Security Director deployment instructions and resources are available from the TechLibrary in Juniper’s Security Director Installation and Upgrade Guide. Additionally, Juniper has a full slate of training and professional services available to meet your needs. Consult your Juniper sales representative for more information or contact support for additional assistance. To get started with Security Director Cloud, check out this Quick Start Guide.

How do I upgrade to the latest Security Director or Security Director Cloud release?

To upgrade from a previous Security Director release, simply follow the steps found in the TechLibrary. When using Juniper Security Director Cloud, you never have to worry about upgrading to the latest version. You always have the latest version when you log in from your preferred web browser.