Help us improve your experience.

Let us know what you think.

Do you have time for a two-minute survey?

ON THIS PAGE
 

Step 1: Begin

In this guide, we provide a simple, three-step path, to quickly get you up and running with Juniper Security Director Cloud. You’ll learn how to create a Juniper Security Director Cloud account, add devices and subscriptions to Juniper Security Director Cloud, and associate your devices with the subscriptions.

Meet Juniper Security Director Cloud

Juniper Security Director Cloud is a cloud-based software as a solution (SaaS) portal that manages on-premises security, cloud-based security, and cloud-delivered security—all within one user interface.

Juniper Security Director Cloud transforms your network to a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture. It provides protection from attacks, regardless of the location. This reduces latency and ensures consistent security enforcement without having to back-haul traffic to a corporate location.

Juniper Security Director Cloud is easy to deploy and to configure. It features zero-touch provisioning, intuitive configuration wizards, and a customizable dashboard for 360° visibility into threat behaviors across the entire network. Unified policy management provides easy-to-use, consistent security policies that follow the user, device, and application. You no longer need to recreate policies from one platform to another.

Note:

Currently, Juniper Security Director Cloud supports vSRX Virtual Firewall and SRX Series Firewalls. See Juniper Security Director Cloud Release Notes for more information on supported platforms.

Let’s Get Started

Here's an overview of the process to get Juniper Security Director Cloud up and running and begin using it to manage your devices.

Create Your Juniper Security Director Cloud Account

Here's how to create your Juniper Security Director Cloud account and log in to the Juniper Security Director Cloud portal:

  1. Open the URL to the Juniper Security Director Cloud portal.
  2. In the portal, click Create an Organization Account.

    The Login Credentials page opens. Use this page to set the login credentials for your account.

  3. Enter the following details and click Next.

    • E-mail address—your preferred e-mail address.

    • Password—a password of your choice.

    The Contact Details page opens.

  4. Enter your full name, company name, country, the phone number for your organization and click Next.

    The Organization Account Details page opens.

  5. Enter the following details of your organization:

    • Type the name of your organization or the organization that will be using Juniper Security Director Cloud to manage devices.

    • Select your home region.

  6. Read the terms and conditions of use, and if you agree, click Create Organization Account.

    You’ll receive an e-mail to verify your e-mail address and to send a request to the Juniper Security Director Cloud team to activate your organization account.

  7. Log in to your e-mail account, open the e-mail, and click Activate Organization Account to send a request to activate your organization account.
    Note:

    • You must verify your e-mail address and click the Activate Organization Account button within 24 hours after receiving the e-mail. Otherwise, your account details will be deleted from Juniper Security Director Cloud, and you’ll have to re-create your account and send the activation request.

    • After verifying your e-mail and sending the account activation request, you’ll receive an e-mail about your organization account activation status within 7 working days.

    If your account activation request is approved, you’ll receive an e-mail with log in page information.

  8. Click Go to Login Page and enter your e-mail address and password to log in and start using the Juniper Security Director Cloud portal.

Add Your Subscription to Juniper Security Director Cloud

After you set up your Juniper Security Director Cloud account and log in for the first time, go to the Subscriptions page. Since you haven’t added any subscriptions to the Juniper Security Director Cloud portal, you’ll see the following screen:

If you’ve already purchased a Juniper Security Director Cloud subscription, you need to add it to the Security Director Cloud portal. You can also use the portal with a 30-day trial subscription which is available in the portal by default. During the trial period, you can access the portal and manage up to five devices with standard security features. When the trial subscription ends, you’ll still be able to access the portal for the next 30 days (grace period). After the grace period is over, your account will be inaccessible, and you must create a new account before adding a purchased subscription. To purchase a subscription, reach out to your Juniper Networks sales representative, account manager, or visit the Juniper Networks Sales site.

Note:

  • You cannot purchase your subscription through the Juniper Security Director Cloud portal.

  • You can purchase your subscription(s) while still in the trial period.

After you purchase a subscription, you’ll receive an e-mail with the following information:

  • URL to Juniper Security Director Cloud portal

  • Software Support Reference Number (SSRN) to activate your subscription in the portal

Here’s how to add your purchased subscription(s) to the Juniper Security Director Cloud portal:

Note:

The trial license is available by default with the portal. You don't have to add it.

  1. Log in to the Juniper Security Director Cloud portal.
  2. Go to the Administration > Subscriptions page.

    The Subscriptions page opens.

  3. Click Add Subscriptions to open the Add New Subscriptions page.
  4. Enter the following information:

    • Name—A descriptive name for the subscription.

    • SSRN—The software support reference number of the subscription that you received in your e-mail.

    If you’ve purchased multiple subscriptions, click + and enter the subscription details.

  5. Click OK.

    Juniper Security Director Cloud verifies the SSRN and activates the subscription(s). The Subscription page opens displaying the newly added subscriptions.

  6. Review your subscription details to be sure everything is correct (activation state, expiration date, number of devices that you can subscribed to a subscription, and so on).

Some Important Information About Subscriptions

  • You’ll receive a subscription renewal e-mail notification 90 days before a subscription expires. After that, you’ll receive a renewal e-mail notification once every week until 30 days before the subscription expires.

  • You’ll receive a subscription renewal e-mail notification every day starting 30 days before the subscription expires.

You can now add devices to the Juniper Security Director Cloud portal. Choose SRX >Device Management > Devices and click Add SRX Devices in the Add Devices page. See Step 2: Up and Running for information about the various ways you can add devices to the portal and subscribe them to your subscriptions.