Juniper Network cloud Computing Defense platform Extended Antivirus protection function

Juniper Network (NYSE: JNPR) announced at the vmworld®2011 conference that Juniper NETWORKS®VGW virtual Gateway solution added significant new features to provide customers with a more comprehensive virtualization security platform. The new feature will provide dedicated virtualization-enabled antivirus (AV) protection, ongoing monitoring of malware and hackers, while ensuring that security does not hinder virtualization load performance or hinder the implementation of large virtual environments.

The protection, scalability, and compliance features of the VGW virtual Gateway version 5.0 in virtualized workloads are enhanced. VGW 5.0 integrates monitoring, firewall, intrusion detection and compliance capabilities, and adds new layers of defense-including antivirus protection, regulatory compliance monitoring, and large-scale virtual security management capabilities-so this is a comprehensive threat management (UTM) solution for cloud computing.

Douglas Murray, senior vice president and managing director of the Juniper Network security business, said: "Through virtualization, companies can benefit from data center operations optimization, and security concerns should not be the reason for these potentially huge savings." The latest version of the Juniper Network VGW series not only enhances security while ensuring performance, but also supports an enterprise's scalable management of a global virtual environment with multiple data centers. ”

"The VGW Virtual Gateway and SRX series offered by Juniper Networks are innovative solutions that integrate physical networks and virtual network security," said Jon Oltsik, senior chief analyst at the corporate Strategy Group. Through the VGW 5.0 virtual Gateway, Juniper Network provides a tightly integrated virtual solution for deep defense protection and centralized security management. ”

The antivirus feature of VGW 5.0 protects VMS (virtual machines) from resident malware and other programs hidden in files and VMs that interfere with business or attack mission-critical information. VGW 5.0 AV Protection detects malicious software or viruses and isolates infected files or VM clients.

The VGW 5.0 Antivirus engine provides a scanning service that can be selected on demand, and administrators can scan the VM offline for the best off-peak hours with low network resource usage. VGW 5.0 focuses on the virtualization of anti-virus methods to provide a variety of scanning options, organizations can save, efficient way to optimize antivirus protection, improve performance, intelligent scanning. As a result, the optimal VM host performance can be achieved even with traditional CPU and RAM-intensive antivirus security features.

The performance enhancements for VGW Virtual Gateway 5.0 include the following:

· VM Gold Image Enforcement provides sophisticated compliance inspection mechanisms that continuously monitor the required security status with alerts and mitigation options that can be used when the status is negatively impacted.

· Multi-center/management support that integrates the security policies of a large deployment into a single manageable whole, across multiple geographic locations and data center locations for unified Management.

· The central separation management function, which divides information on a VMware vcenter™server into a number of independently managed VGW to improve the resource isolation performance of cloud services or multiple users.

· Tree search capabilities, Smart Group Expression Builder, and the ability to easily isolate Non-compliant VMs can support easy, fast search, classification, and mitigation among a large number of users.

"VMware encourages and supports our security partners to expand our virtual platform to support the secure, uninterrupted operation of virtual data centers," said Parag Patel, vice president of VMware Global Strategy. Virtual security for specific purposes is essential for all enterprises in the cloud environment that include high-value businesses that support load. ”