Juniper SRX stands tall for Service Provider Networks.
Rating: 8 out of 10
August 10, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
Juniper SRX is used as Network Firewall, which is responsible for securing the workload behind it. It addresses Network Security within the organization, limits the access of the organization's internal network, and secures the enterprise network from threats and from malicious users. Juniper SRX also helped send the traffic to the Internet with the help of Network Address Translation.
- Network Address Translation.
- Securing the Enterprise Workload.
- Enterprise VPN Connectivity.
Cons
- Antivirus Features can be more advanced.
- Antispam Filtering features have room for improvement.
- Cloud Capabilities.
- IPSec VPN.
- Network Address Translation.
- Security Policies.
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8.7
- It really helped secure a big service provider environment.
- It handles the traffic pretty well.
- It helps in the seamless implementation of Firewall policies.
Juniper SRX stands tall compared to all these products for Large Service Provider Networks, where traffic volume is larger. Also, cost comparison with SRX's few other products can also be another contributing factor while selecting this. As well as Juniper Routers, Switches, and multiple products from the same vendor to maintain one single vendor environment. As well as Juniper Support is also really good.
Most of the teams are the application teams, hosting their application environment on prem, and connects via Juniper SRX to external partners or toward the internet. These application team also securing their environment via Juniper SRX firewall.
Networking team is the admin team who manages the firewall.
Networking team is the admin team who manages the firewall.
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Network Security skills are required for supporting the Juniper SRX. Day to day work is manage the firewall faults, as well as changes in firewall configuration as per the application requirement, such as to allow to deny the traffic.
- Securing the applications.
- Establishing the connectivity with partner networks.
- On Prem to Cloud Connectivity.
- SRX is being used to handle of lot of NAT connections, instead of using the dedicated NATing devices.
- SRX is used as external point for any Internet traffic to hit the Internal network.
- Enabling the features such as making it as the proxy server.
- Utilizing the Decryption capabilities.