Next-Generation Firewall Services

Organizations are in an arms race with cyber criminals who constantly develop new exploits that evade detection and compromise defenses. Security solutions that stay ahead of this continual escalation are crucial to protecting your business’s people, data, infrastructure, and survival.

Juniper Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Services provide an array of cyber defenses that work together to reduce your attack surface. With Secure Edge and the SRX Series firewall at their foundation, NGFW Services deliver integrated threat protection with application awareness, user identity, and content inspection with high-performance throughput and scalability.

Key Features


  • Identify and take action on high-risk applications
  • Protect against network-level exploits
  • Block known malware
  • Control web browsing through robust URL filtering categories, and block malicious web sites
  • Prevent unauthorized use with user-based security policies and segmentation
  • Extend security policies to remote users with Secure Edge Firewall-as-a-Service or Secure Connect VPN

Features + Benefits

Advanced Application Visibility and Control

Protect users, applications, and devices, without sacrificing reliability or performance.

Identity, Segmentation, and Threat Prevention

Juniper next-generation firewalls deliver a threat-aware network posture, not limited to perimeter-only protection.

Automated Risk Reduction

Attack surface reduction through pervasive visibility and intelligence informs the right action automatically.

SSL Inspection

Inline decryption and inspection of inbound and outbound SSL connections provide visibility and protect users from threats embedded in encrypted traffic.

Powered by Junos OS

Juniper’s operating system optimizes services on SRX devices for maximum scale and automation.

A Magic Quadrant Challenger

Gartner positions Juniper Networks as a Challenger in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls.

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CUSTOMER SUCCESS

Beeline automates its network to help customers improve workforce agility

Consultants, freelancers, independent contractors, and other non-employees are a vital part of the global workforce. Beeline, a leader in extended workforce management software, helps companies acquire this type of talent and improve visibility and controls over their contingent workers.

An agile, automated, and threat-aware network from Juniper supports Beeline’s AI-powered SaaS platform and its global business operations as more companies and people seek flexible work.

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Next-Generation Firewall Services

Reduce risk of attack and safeguard users, applications, and devices through identity-based policies, microsegmentation, VPN connectivity, and validated threat prevention.

Technical Features
  • Identify and take action on high-risk applications
  • Protect against network-level exploits
  • Block known malware
  • Control web browsing through robust URL filtering categories, and block malicious web sites
  • Prevent unauthorized use with user-based security policies and segmentation
  • Extend security policies to remote users with Secure Edge Firewall-as-a-Service or Secure Connect VPN
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Secure Edge

Juniper Secure Edge provides full-stack Secure 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 99.5 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.
  • 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. 
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Advanced Threat Prevention

The threat intelligence hub for your network, available as a cloud service or on-premises appliance. Protect against known and unknown threats, assess and verify device and IoT risk, and analyze encrypted traffic.

Technical Features
  • Automatically discover and mitigate known and unknown threats
  • Encrypted Traffic Insights: Detect and stop threats hiding within encrypted traffic without decrypting
  • Adaptive Threat Profiling: Detect targeted attacks on your network, including high-risk users and devices, and automatically mobilize your defenses
  • SecIntel: Curate and distribute threat feeds verified by Juniper Threat Labs across the network to routers, switches, access points, and firewalls for orchestrated action

Discover 283% ROI with Juniper Connected Security

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

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Connected Security

Juniper Connected Security safeguards users, applications, and infrastructure by extending security to every point of connection, from client to cloud, across the entire network.

Threat Detection and Mitigation

Juniper security applications provide actionable threat intelligence with the context needed to effectively stop advanced threats, providing a seamless and secure experience for end users.

Next-Generation Firewall

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

AI-Driven SD-WAN

Enrich user experiences across the WAN with AI-driven insight, automation, action, and native security.

Public Cloud Security

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

Zero Trust Data Center Security

Connect applications while protecting data wherever it resides, with validated data center threat mitigation, reliability, and scalable solutions that support your data center architecture initiatives and business requirements.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, by Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils, Thomas Lintemuth, 19, December, 2022.

Gartner Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls, by Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils, 17 January 2022.

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