Cloud Computing: Juniper Unveils Global Attacker Intelligence Service at RSA Conference
February 26, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Juniper Networks is aiming to take a new approach to dealing with security threats with the announcement of a cloud-based global attacker intelligence service. Dubbed Junos Spotlight Secure, the new cloud service was designed to provide customers with "definitive intelligence about threats, attackers and individual devices across a wide number of networks and Juniper security products."
Spotlight Secure is meant to be the next evolution in dealing with attackers, moving beyond the traditional security method of tracking reputation feeds of IP addresses. According to Juniper, that’s the old way of doing things, and Spotlight Secure will be identifying individual attackers at the device level and then tracking them through a global database…
The gist is it provides additional intelligence in dealing with security threats to protect organizations from attackers, taking tracking of dangerous individuals right down to the device level. "Next-generation security must be built on automated and actionable intelligence that can be quickly shared to meet the demands of modern and evolving networks. This is only possible if you are able to collect definitive information about attackers," said Nawaf Bitar, senior vice president and general manager of the Security Business Unit at Juniper Networks, in a prepared statement…
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