Release Notes for Junos Space Security Director

New and Changed Features

This section describes the new features and enhancements to existing features in Junos Space Security Director and Policy Enforcer Release 20.1R1.

• Enhancements in IPsec VPN—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, we’ve updated the UI options for creating an IPsec VPN. You can view the representations of different VPN topologies. You must click on the icons to configure site to site, hub and spoke, and full mesh topologies.

• Enhancements in license management—We've made the following enhancements to license management:

  • You can find the license details under Devices > Licenses.

  • You can deploy the license on cluster and chassis devices.

  • After you install the license on a device, the Licenses page is automatically refreshed.

  • You can choose to run a job immediately or schedule the job to run later by using the Schedule Start Time option on the License Schedule Polling page.

• New IPS policy templates—We provide predefined policy templates that you can use as a guideline to create policies. Each template contains a set of rules of a specific rule base type. Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, all the 14 existing predefined IPS policy templates are replaced with 6 new templates, namely, Default, Recommended, Recommended-Client-Protections, Recommended-Enhanced, Recommended-Sever-Protections, and Strict. You can use these predefined IPS policy templates or create custom templates. You can also edit and clone the templates. If your existing templates are associated with IPS policies, then those templates will act as custom rules in Security Director.

• Synchronize out-of-band changes for NAT policy—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can synchronize (that is, import or reject) out-of-band changes for a NAT policy from a device to Security Director manually or automatically. Automatic synchronization is applicable for a device-specific policy, and manual synchronization is applicable for both device-specific and group policies.

• Additional parameters to manage SRX Series devices—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can configure additional device parameters to effectively manage an SRX Series device. We’ve added SSL Initiation Profile, ICAP Redirect Profile, and Link Aggregation (LAG) Profile sections.

• IPS policy support for logical system—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can use an IPS policy to selectively enforce various attack detection and prevention techniques on network traffic passing through a logical system.

  Devices running Junos OS Release 18.3 and later support IPS policies for logical system.

• Convert traditional firewall policies with application firewall to unified firewall policies—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can convert a standard policy with application firewall configuration to a unified firewall policy.

• Enhancements in IPS signature dynamic groups—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can configure additional dynamic attack group parameters to create more effective IPS signature dynamic groups. We’ve added parameters such as CVSS-score, age of attack, file type, and vulnerability type.

• Competitive reports—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, we’ve added the predefined URLs Visited Per User report, which displays statistics related to a specific user. You can generate the report using the Run now option, preview the report as PDF, or send the report over an e-mail. You can choose to have a complete record or top ten records for a user. The report displays various statistics for users such as top URLs by session, top high risk URLs visited, total bandwidth used by high risk URL categories, breakdown of URL categories visited, total session used on risky URLs, and so on.

• Configure parameters for DNS host type—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can configure DNS name and DNS type (either IPv4 or IPv6) while creating addresses and address groups with DNS host type.

• Export service objects to CSV file—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can export service objects to a CSV file.

• Configure parameters to delete unused address objects—When a device is updated from Security Director, if you want the unused addresses and address groups or NAT pools to be deleted from the device, go to Junos Space Network Management Platform, select Administration > Application > Modify Application Settings > Update Device, and select the corresponding Delete unused addresses and address groups or Delete unused NAT pool check box.

• Download the Signature Database for vSRX 3.0—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can download the Signature Database for vSRX 3.0. The detectors and other signature files specific to vSRX 3.0 in the Security Director database can be pushed to vSRX 3.0 devices.

• Enhancements in search and filter for advanced security option—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, under the Advanced Security option in firewall policy, you can search and filter policies with IPS On or Off values.

• Predefined application or services—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, the new set of predefined application or services supported in Junos are added in the Security Director database during installation.

• TCP-session options—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you can configure Initial TCP MSS and Reverse TCP MSS options while configuring a firewall policy profile.

• LSYS and VRF instance support—Starting in Policy Enforcer Release 20.1R1, you can create a tenant representing an enterprise. On an MX Series device, you can assign a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance to a tenant. The custom feed sends feeds to Policy Enforcer at the logical system (LSYS) and VRF instance levels on the MX Series device. The VRF instance is dedicated to handling traffic within the tenant's private network. You can route the traffic on the tenant’s private network from the VRF instance on the MX Series device at one site to the same VRF instance on another MX Series device at a different site. The MX Series device supports multiple VRF instances, which can be assigned to different tenants. Therefore, a device can be shared with multiple tenants.

  Note

  • In Policy Enforcer Release 20.1R1, only MX Series devices support LSYS and VRF.

  • Only root logical system is supported.

  • All the sites of a realm are either with tenants or without tenants.

  • VRF based feeds such as C&C, whitelist, and blacklist are supported through custom feeds.

  • Custom C&C feed (not VRF-based) is supported on SRX Series devices in all modes except the default mode.

• vSRX 3.0 support—Policy Enforcer Release 20.1R1 supports vSRX 3.0 running with Junos OS Release 19.4R1 and later.

Supported Managed Devices

Security Director Release 20.1R1 manages the following devices:

• SRX100

• SRX110

• SRX210

• SRX220

• SRX240

• SRX240H

• SRX300

• SRX320

• SRX320-POE

• SRX340

• SRX345

• SRX550

• SRX550M

• SRX650

• SRX1400

• SRX1500

• SRX3400

• SRX3600

• SRX4100

• SRX4200

• SRX5400

• SRX5600

• SRX5800

• SRX4600

• vSRX

• MX240

• MX480

• MX960

• MX2010

• MX2020

• LN1000-V

• LN2600

• Security Director Log Collector

• Juniper Secure Analytics (JSA) as Log Collector on JSA Release 2014.8.R4 and later

• QRadar as Log Collector on QRadar Release 7.2.8 and later

Supported Line Cards

Table 1 shows the supported Juniper Networks line cards in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1.

Supported Junos OS Releases

Security Director Release 20.1R1 supports the following Junos OS releases:

• 10.4

• 11.4

• 12.1

• 12.1X44

• 12.1X45

• 12.1X46

• 12.1X47

• 12.3X48

• 15.1X49

• vSRX 15.1X49

• 16.1R3-S1.3

• 15.1X49-D110

• 17.3

• 17.4

• 18.1

• 18.2

• 18.3

• 18.4

• 19.1

• 19.2

• 19.3

• 19.4

SRX Series devices require Junos OS Release 12.1 or later to synchronize the Security Director description field with the device.

The logical systems feature is supported only on devices running Junos OS Release 11.4 or later.

Supported Policy Enforcer and Juniper Sky ATP Releases

Table 2 shows the supported Policy Enforcer and Juniper Sky Advanced Threat Prevention (Juniper Sky ATP) releases.

Supported Browsers

Security Director Release 20.1R1 is best viewed on the following browsers:

• Mozilla Firefox

• Google Chrome

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11

Installation and Upgrade Instructions

• Installing and Upgrading Security Director Release 20.1R1

• Adding Security Director Log Collector Node in Security Director Release 17.2R1 and Later

Installing and Upgrading Security Director Release 20.1R1

Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1 is supported only on Junos Space Network Management Platform Release 20.1R1 that can run on the following devices:

• JA2500

• Junos Space virtual appliance

• Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) server installed on CentOS Release 7.2.1511

In Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, a single image installs Security Director, Log Director, and the Security Director Logging and Reporting modules. All three applications are installed when you install the Security Director Release 20.1R1 image.

For more information about installing and upgrading Security Director Release 20.1R1, see Security Director Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Adding Security Director Log Collector Node in Security Director Release 17.2R1 and Later

For distributed Log Collector deployment, you must add only a Log Receiver node. You can add the node directly to Security Director using admin credentials, as in the case of the JSA node. For security reasons, non-root credentials are used to add a node.

Figure 1: Change Password

For JSA, provide the admin credentials that are used to log in to the JSA console.

For information about how to add the Log Collector node to Security Director, see Security Director Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Loading Junos OS Schema for SRX Series Devices

You must download and install correct Junos OS schema to manage SRX Series devices. To download the correct schema, from the Network Management Platform list, select Administration > DMI Schema, and click Update Schema. See Updating a DMI Schema.

DMI Schema Compatibility for Junos OS Service Releases

The following tables explain how the Junos Space Network Management Platform chooses Device Management Interface (DMI) schemas for devices running Junos OS Service Releases.

If a Junos OS Service Release is installed on your device with a major release version of a DMI schema installed on Junos Space Network Management Platform, then Junos Space chooses the latest corresponding major release of DMI schemas, as shown in Table 3.

If a Junos OS Service Release is installed on your device without a matching DMI schema version in Junos Space Network Management Platform, then Junos Space chooses the default DMI schema version, as shown in Table 4.

If more than one version of the DMI schemas are installed in Junos Space Platform for a single Junos OS Service Release version, Junos Space chooses the latest version of the DMI schema, as shown in Table 5.

If a Junos OS Service Release is installed on your device without a corresponding DMI schema version in Junos Space Network Management Platform, then Junos Space chooses a default DMI schema version, as shown in Table 6.

For information about Junos OS compatibility, see Junos OS Releases Supported in Junos Space Network Management Platform.

Management Scalability

• By default, monitor polling is set to 15 minutes and resource usage polling is set to 10 minutes. This polling time changes to 30 minutes for a large-scale data center setup such as one for 200 SRX Series devices managed in Security Director.

  Note

  You can manually configure the monitor polling on the Administration>Monitor Settings page.

• Security Director supports up to 15,000 SRX Series devices with a six-node Junos Space fabric. In a setup with 15,000 SRX Series devices, all settings for monitor polling must be set to 60 minutes. If monitoring is not required, disable it to improve the performance of your publish and update jobs.

• To enhance the performance further, increase the number of update subjobs thread in the database. To increase the update subjobs thread in the database, run the following command:

  Note

  For mysql username and password, contact Juniper Support.

Table 7 shows the supported firewall rules per policy that are processed concurrently.

Known Behavior

This section contains the known behavior and limitations in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1.

• In Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you must configure tunnel IP address for dynamic routing protocols. In Junos Space Security Director Release 19.4R1 and earlier, if you have configured VPN as unnumbered with dynamic routing protocol, you will be prompted to provide tunnel IP address while editing the VPN after upgrading to Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1.

• After upgrade you will not be allowed to edit profiles with predefined proposals because profiles in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1 supports only custom proposals.

• In Junos Space Security Director Release 19.4R1 and earlier, if you have configured VPN with static routing or traffic selector with protected network as zone or interface, perform the following:

  1. Before you upgrade, update the configuration to device, and delete the VPN Policy from Security Director.
  2. After you upgrade to Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, you must import the VPN configuration.
  Note

  In Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1, only address objects is supported in protected networks for static routing and traffic selector.

• In Junos Space Security Director Release 19.4R1 and earlier, if you have configured route settings as None, Security Director does not allow you to edit the VPN after you upgrade to Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1. This is because , you must select one of the routing protocols for creating a VPN in Junos Space Security Director Release 20.1R1.

• You must disable OpenNMS before installing the integrated Log Collector.

  To disable OpenNMS:

  1. Select Network Management Platform > Administration > Applications.
  2. Right-click Network Management Platform, and select Manage Services.
  3. Select Network Monitoring, and click the Stop Service icon.

     The network monitoring service is stopped, and the status of OpenNMS is changed to Disabled.

  Note

  You must ensure that Junos Space Network Management Platform and Security Director are already installed on a JA2500 appliance or Junos Space virtual appliance.

• The Enable preview and import device change option is disabled by default.

  To enable this option:

  1. Select Network Management Platform > Administration > Applications.
  2. Right-click Security Director, and select Modify Application Settings.
  3. From Update Device, select the Enable preview and import device change option.

• If you restart the JBoss application servers manually in a six-node setup one-by-one, the Junos Space Network Management Platform and Security Director user interfaces are launched within 20 minutes, and the devices reconnect to Junos Space Network Management Platform. You can then edit and publish the policies. When the connection status and the configuration status of all devices are UP and IN SYNC, respectively, click Update Changes to update all security-specific configurations or pending services on SRX Series devices.

• To generate reports in the local time zone of the server, you must modify /etc/sysconfig/clock to configure the time zone. Changing the time zone on the server by modifying /etc/localtime does not generate reports in the local time zone.

• If the vSRX VMs in NSX Manager are managed in Security Director Release 17.1R1 and Policy Enforcer Release 17.1R1, then after upgrading to Security Director Release 19.4R1 and Policy Enforcer Release 19.4R1, you must migrate the existing vSRX VMs in NSX Manager from Policy Enforcer Release 17.1R1 to Release 19.4R1.

  To migrate the existing vSRX VMs:

  1. Log in to the Policy Enforcer server by using SSH.
  2. Run the following commands:

     cd /var/lib/nsxmicro

     ./migrate_devices.sh

• If the NSX Server SSL certificate has expired or changed, communication between Security Director and NSX Manager fails, thereby impacting the functionality of NSX Manager, such as sync NSX inventory and security group update.

  To refresh the NSX SSL certificate:

  1. Log in to Policy Enforcer by using SSH.
  2. Run the following command:

     nsxmicro_refresh_ssl --server <<NSX IP ADDRESS>>--port 443

     This script fetches the latest NSX SSL certificate and stores it for communication between Security Director and NSX Manager.

• In a setup where other applications are installed in Junos Space Network Management Platform along with Security Director, the JBoss PermSize must be increased from 512m to 1024m in the /usr/local/jboss/domain/configuration/host.xml.slave file. Under <jvm name="platform">, change the following values in the <jvm-options> tag:

  <option value="-XX:PermSize=1024m"/>

  <option value="-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m"/>

• When you import addresses via CSV, a new address object is created by appending a_1 to the address object name if the address object is already present in Security Director.

Known Issues

This section lists the known issues in Security Director Release 20.1R1.

For the most complete and latest information about known Security Director defects, use the Juniper Networks online Junos Problem Report Search application.

• Security Director generates incomplete CLIs for dynamic attack group "vendor_description", which causes update failure. PR1502196

• For dynamic attack groups (false positive and performance impact), incorrect CLIs are generated due to the mismatch in the UI options with respect to the device options. PR1513528

• Security Director deletes only one VPN at a time, though UI allows to delete multiple VPNs of the same device in a single delete attempt. PR1508265

  Workaround: Delete single VPN at a time and update one after the other.

• An icon showing out-of-band changes is seen for firewall and IPS policies, although the corresponding policy changes are not made on the device.

  Workaround: Clear the out-of-band icon on the policies when changes are not made on the device. Navigate to corresponding policy and right-click the policy. Select View Device Policy Changes and reject all changes, and then click OK. PR1484953

• Cipher list CLIs deploy works only when you perform "save" or "save and deploy".

  Workaround: You must save or deploy the selected Cipher list before viewing the preview changes. PR1485949

• An object conflict occurs while you are importing Web filter profiles with duplicate names, although the values are the same. PR1420341

  Workaround: Select either Overwrite with Imported Value or Keep Existing Object to avoid duplicate objects.

• Security Director does not support routing instances and proxy profiles in an antivirus pattern update for the UTM default configuration. PR1462331

• When out-of-band changes are imported to a logical system (LSYS) device, a job is created for the root device along with the LSYS device, although changes are made only in the LSYS device. PR1448667

• Import fails when a device is imported only with UTM custom objects without a UTM policy. PR1447779

  Workaround: Delete the UTM custom objects if they are not used in a policy or assign a UTM policy.

• Update fails for unified policies when an SSL proxy profile that is set as global in a device is not used in any policy for that device. PR1407389

• Junos Space Security Director fails to import VPN if a device uses master password encryption because VPN preshared key with $8$ format is not supported. PR1416285

• Junos Space Security Director generates wrong CLI commands for deleting advanced policy-based routing (APBR) rules. PR1417708

• A policy analysis report with a large number of rules cannot be generated. PR1418125

• When a column filter is used, the deselect all and clear all options do not clear selected items occasionally. PR1424112

• The Show Unused option is not available for URL categories. PR1431345

• Restart of single node does not recover system issue only present on single node. PR1478804

  Workaround: Restart all JBoss nodes.

For known issues in Policy Enforcer, see Policy Enforcer Release Notes.

Resolved Issues

This section lists the issues fixed in Junos Space Security Director and Policy Enforcer Release 20.1R1.

For the most complete and latest information about resolved issues, use the Juniper Networks online Junos Problem Report Search application.

• When you import multiple devices with default IPS policies simultaneously, only one default IPS policy is imported. The default IPS policies of other devices are not imported. PR1470335

• Unified IPS support for a logical system (LSYS) device is not provided. PR1465554

• The newly created first rule of a rule group always moves to the previous rule group when out-of-band changes are imported. PR1451550

• Security Director does not push the correct detector version or signature database for vSRX 3.0. PR1468161

• An unexpected behavior is seen when you enable the Policy Sync Settings option. PR1472215

• Logs from JSA to Security Director show wrong subdomain. PR1472468

• When an SRX Series cluster fails over, Security Director device updates fail. PR1479795

• There is inconsistency in grid view of application visibility data. PR1479934

• VPN is not up as Security Director does not generate unique IKE policy. PR1480647

• Search does not work for user IDs in security policies. PR1483279

• Security Director does not push the pre-shared key (PSK) to the VPNs because the PSKs are encrypted twice. PR1484611

• Device-related jobs on Security Director fail. PR1485485

• Users are unable to export the filtered PDF. PR1485780

• Multiple IKE policy pre-shared-key statements are pushed to the firewall. PR1486055

• After you configure a VPN, the traffic selector information does not get saved. PR1486200

• Transaction rolled back for device update job. PR1486311

• Search does not work for objects in the firewall, IPS, or NAT policies. PR1486740

• The policy sync job fails. PR1487675

• The pre-shared keys for the VPNs in Security Director do not get updated on the devices correctly. PR1488781

• VPN edit generates delete CLI, which causes update failure from Security Director. PR1488858

• IPS signature installation fails from Junos Space on a vSRX instance installed on KVM. PR1490851

• When a rule is cloned in firewall policies, the cloned rule does not contain the tunnel information. PR1490998

• You cannot create a usable custom role name to be used in the source-identity field of the policy. PR1491008

• Data is not displayed in the application-related widgets when a specific device is selected. PR1492280

• The Select services drop-down in IPS policy does not list the objects. PR1492512

• The publish and update jobs do not respond. PR1492932

• Security Director is unable to export the filtered search results for a rule to PDF. PR1493016

• Unable to change the name of the IPS policy for an SRX Series device. PR1493326

• When you run a publish or update job from Security Director, an error message is displayed. PR1493795

• After you upgrade Junos Space Security Director, an error message is seen in the global policy rules. PR1494500

• IPv6 address object search does not work as expected. PR1496012

• Security Director sends license expiry e-mails to the users for all the devices. PR1497220

• While creating an application or service object, a warning message is displayed for the source port. PR1497931

• Unable to push license to an SRX Series cluster device. PR1497963

• If the VPN name exceeds 32 characters in the device end point settings, Security Director fails to truncate the VPN name. PR1499371

• Search does not work as expected. PR1499379

• Security Director cannot search for a shared object in the address object list from a sub domain though it has access to the objects from the parent domain. PR1499409

• There is an issue with address object replacement. PR1500407

• Policy update fails when the same IDP or IPS policy is assigned to group device policies or device-specific policies for two or more devices. PR1501723

• While publishing a VPN configuration, Junos Space deletes the AS number. PR1503129

• After an upgrade, the UTM policy configuration lines for traffic-options are deleted. PR1509739

• Applications are not seen on the Application Visibility page after upgrade. PR1438931

• Search fails for service objects in IPS policy. PR1469745

• Random digits are appended to the VPN name. PR1475408

• Security Director dashboard widgets fail to load data whenever a specific device is selected. PR1478355

• Routing-instance does not bind to an interface while creating or editing a VPN. PR1478948

• User is unable to import device configuration. LSYS device discovery status shows Fab Link and Control Link are down. PR1480360

• VPN takes longer to publish. PR1490718

• Firewall policy export fails. PR1490951

• VPN tunnel creation pushes incomplete configuration for the interfaces. PR1493192

• Hostname, log source, and policy name shows N/A in the events for all domains. PR1494356

• Disabling monitoring for a device does not stop polling the device. PR1506356

• If Policy Enforcer is upgraded to any release later than Policy Enforcer Release 17.1R2, the custom feeds dynamic address group (DAG) user interface does not list all the DAGs created before Policy Enforcer Release 17.2R2. PR1425871