Juniper Extends Adaptive Threat Management to Branch/Remote Users

| Jul 13, 2009 | Enterprise Security | Competitive Update

| Analyst: Andrew Braunberg

Current Perspective: Positive
Vendor Importance: Moderate
Market Impact: Low/Moderate

Event Summary

July 13, 2009 – Juniper’s Adaptive Threat Management Solutions are based on a flexible “pay-as-you-grow” deployment model that can simultaneously reduce risk, lower TCO, and increase productivity. The solution delivers security at scale that is both identity-aware and application-aware, now enabling consistent application delivery and performance across the distributed enterprise, including data center, campus, branch, remote, and partner/extranet locations.

Analytical Summary

• Current Perspective: Positive on Juniper’s Adaptive Threat Management story, because the company has enhanced and extended the use cases for the solution. With these announcements, Juniper has further integrated its security suite and it can now deliver adaptive threat management out to the branch or home office user.

• Vendor Importance: Moderate to Juniper, specifically its security business, because these announcements build on a series of product announcements that the company has made over the last several quarters. Most importantly, these announcements demonstrate Juniper’s commitment to leverage fully the new SRX family of security gateway products to deliver a comprehensive, fully integrated security solution.

• Market Impact: Low to moderate on the enterprise security markets, because this is another in a series of incremental extensions to Juniper’s long-standing strategic direction. The introduction in May 2009 of branch versions of its SRX gateways signaled that this announcement was in the queue.

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Competitive Positives and Concerns

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Recommended Competitor Actions

• Security gateway vendors, such as Cisco, Crossbeam, Check Point, Fortinet, and others, all need to take the threat posed by Juniper’s SRX family seriously. Juniper has quickly moved the product line down-market and competitors should be aware that the SRX line now includes: the SRX210, SRX240, and SRX650 for the branch as well as the SRX3400 and SRX3600, SRX5600, and SRX5800 for the high end.

• Juniper continues to be the leader of the SSL VPN market and, clearly, the company is positioning Adaptive Threat Management as a way to leverage further the strengths of its SSL VPN products. Some competitors, such as Cisco and Microsoft, have the security product portfolio to move in similar directions. Others, such as Citrix and F5, only offer a subset of Juniper’s security portfolio. All of these vendors should be moving away from standalone security solutions, however, and focusing on more bundled solutions.

• NAC vendors should also be thinking along similar lines. In particular, support for the TCG TNC specifications can enable similar interoperability with third-party solutions as well as provide identity awareness. Juniper’s UAC NAC product is foundational to its Adaptive Threat Management strategy, but it is not necessarily the most unique or defensible piece.

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