Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Architecture

The Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways is a purpose-built platform to perform essential networking security functions. The SRX Series provides integrated security and LAN/WAN routing across high-density LAN/WAN interfaces, Juniper Networks integrated security services gateways address the needs of small to medium sized locations, large distributed enterprises, and service providers as well as large and co-located datacenters. These services gateways protect the network from all type of attacks and malware while simultaneously facilitating secure business-to-business communications.

Features

• Complete set of next generation firewall and Unified Threat Management (UTM) security features—including stateful firewall, application security, user role-based firewall controls, intrusion prevention, on-box and cloud-based antivirus, antispyware, anti-adware, and antiphishing), antispam, and enhanced Web filtering.
• AppSecure next-generation security capabilities
• Firefly Host is a purpose built firewall for virtualization that protects traffic to/from virtual machines (east/west traffic). Firefly Host also includes IPS, Virtualization Specific AV, Introspection which allows you to scan the installation properties of a virtual machine (such as the OS, applications and hot fixes), Smart Groups which supports the use of attributes to create dynamic system associations for VMs) and a Compliance Module with pre-defined and custom rules engine alerts on virtual machine and host configuration changes. Firefly Host is tightly integrated into the VMware hypervisor and VMware management framework (VCenter).
• Centralized, policy-based management
• High availability (HA) options