Junos Security

Preface

Juniper Networks built the SRX Series as an answer to the network and security challenges of today that would be ready to scale and adapt to the inevitably larger and more complex demands of tomorrow. Security remains a huge and still growing challenge for any organization grappling with modern communication networks. Whether it is the explosion in traffic (good and bad), the growing complexity of data centers and cloud computing, or the menacing evolution of threats to that infrastructure, the days of the simple firewall are over. Something radically new was needed, and the SRX is leading the charge into a more secure future.

Junos Security is your guide to this brighter future. It readily answers the questions you have, will have, or may even hope to have. The SRX is one awesome beast that is up to matching your challenges whether they are firewalling, routing, NAT, deep inspection, encryption, or the mitigation of nearly any form of network attack.

How do you write about such a thing? Once upon a time, there were firewall books, or routing books, or even data center deployment books. But today, this one book is here to illuminate the elaborate hybrid workings of this next-gen networking marvel. Add to that the fact that the SRX platform has multiple models across two quite distinct device classes covering everything from the smallest networks in the world to the very largest, along with the huge and legendary heritage of the Junos operating system, and you have more than ...