Posts Tagged ‘Juniper Networks’

Today at the Juniper Networks Global Partner Conference, FireMon was honored to be invited to participate in the keynote address. FireMon’s President & CTO, Jody Brazil, joined Juniper’s CEO Kevin Johnson to demonstrate FireMon Risk Analyzer running on Junos Space. We at FireMon are thrilled to be partnering so closely with Juniper. The Space platform represents a significant development in terms of network programability and extensibility. FireMon Risk Analyzer leverages the rich real time configuration data provided by Junos Space to maintain the most accurate and update network topology within Risk Analyzer. FireMon also announced that while the current release of Risk Analyzer supports hooks into space, the release of Junos Space 12.1 would see the release of Risk Analyzer running natively within Junos Space. FireMon and Juniper will continue to work closely together to create the most accurate and real time risk analysis and remediation tool for Juniper environments, with many more exciting developments to come throughout the year.

As those of you who have followed this blog over the past couple of months know, we have been slowly revealing bits and pieces about our new Risk Analyzer product here at Firemon. Over the next week and  in the coming months, you will see and hear a huge push around Risk from all areas of Firemon. The official release of Risk Analyzer is imminent, as our CEO noted in his twitter feed this morning. We have also highlighted our partnership with Juniper Networks around Risk Analyzer and JunOS Space. You can get even more insight into what we are doing together on Juniper’s YouTube channel.

Why are we suddenly so focused on Risk, and why is it something you should care about? At the end of the day, all of the security controls organizations have put in place, the firewalls, IDS/IPS’s, proxys, ACL’s, desktop firewalls, etc., are there to help reduce and eliminate the risk to your IT infrastructure. Risk is what we are trying to control and limit. However, as we have previously highlighted, analyzing risk in today’s networks is a huge challenge. We tend to rely on a single tool to determine risk, and in the complex network environments we live in today, these tools can present 1000′s of items that an organization needs to address. Attempting to manually review that list and prioritize the remediation results in organizations spending to little or too much time attempting to reduce their risk. Furthermore,  those tools lack the full contextual awareness of your entire network topology and how data flows through the environment, which is a real key to accurately identifying the areas of your infrastructure that are most at risk.

Risk Analyzer provides that full context of network topology awareness that is so critical to accurate risk analysis. It automatically shows you what actions to take to reduce the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of effort, ensuring your valuable resources are spending the exact amount of time needed to effectively reduce risk to your infrastructure. It’s patented analysis engine that has been proven for the past 4 years in the largest DOD and Intelligence networks produces results in seconds as opposed to hours or even days that other solutions require.  It graphically shows you where you are at risk from any part of your infrastructure. Risk Analyzer will help you automate the reduction of risk to your IT infrastructure.

This is why we are excited about Risk Analyzer and so focused on Risk. Risk, after all, is the key.

I was able to attend this years JavaOne conference, and had the privilege of hearing the keynote from David Ward of Juniper Networks. If you missed his presentation, you can see it here. One of the key points in his presentation was that the network and applications need to work together. As Lauren Cooney points out in her blog, “The divide between IT and Developer is getting smaller and smaller – you can now access the network through a series of APIs and an orchestration layer that make it easier to build and scale applications specific to your network. The two need to work together to be successful.”

At Firemon, we believe the opening of the network API’s  is highly beneficial to those of us developing security applications for the enterprise network. We have ported our new Risk Analyzer product to run on Space, and leverage the Space SDK to provide the application real-time awareness of all the network devices and how data traverses the entire network topology. This enables Risk Analyzer to have the most complete, up to date and real-time picture of an enterprise’s network topology, enabling Risk Analyzer to create the most accurate graphical representation of your entire network. Risk Analyzer then combines the network information from Space with the results of enterprise vulnerability scanning and clearly highlights all of the paths attackers can take to penetrate your network, including client-side vulnerabilities, in a matter of seconds.

Space enables Risk Analyzer to factor in the full context of the network topology and network security controls to provide the most accurate risk analysis and remediation. Space enables Firemon to focus our development efforts on further enhancing Risk Analyzer’s patented analysis engines, knowing the Space SDK will always provide the necessary network information. Firemon is excited to be one of the first companies to partner with Juniper and leverage the Space SDK. We look forward to continued enhancement of the joint technology and many exciting developments to come in the next few months.