Juniper Security Director Cloud Overview
Juniper Security Director Cloud is your portal to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), bridging your current security deployments with your future SASE rollout. Juniper Security Director Cloud helps organizations migrate securely to SASE architecture. Using Juniper Security Director Cloud, organizations can create unified policies once and deploy the policies wherever their users are using the applications. Unified policy management ensures seamless security across all users, applications, or devices wherever they are.
Juniper Security Director Cloud empowers both traditional security roles and network roles by automating tier I and tier II security tasks and by supplementing network visibility with security insights. Additionally, Juniper Security Director Cloud provides value for enterprise and service providers by shifting from monolithic centralized data center architectures to SASE-based, decentralized architectures that bring services closer to end users.
Juniper Security Director Cloud provides a user-friendly and security-focused GUI interface that allows an administrator to perform specific tasks. Table 1.
When you log in to application, the main menu (left sidebar) that is displayed and the actions that you can perform depend on your access privileges. Table 1 lists the main menu that is available in the Juniper Security Director Cloud, a brief description of each menu item, and a link to the relevant topic in the Juniper Security Director Cloud User Guide.
Menu | Description |
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Dashboard |
The dashboard displays information such as top events, top denials, top applications, top source and destination IP addresses, top traffic, and top infected hosts. Graphical security widgets that can be added, removed, and rearranged per user. These widgets offer each user a customized view of network security. See About the Dashboard. |
Monitor |
You can view following information from Monitor menu:
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SRX>Device Management |
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SRX>Security Policy |
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SRX>Security Subscriptions |
Advanced Security management related to:
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SRX>IPsec VPN |
IPsec VPN—You can view and manage the IPsec VPN profiles that provide a means to securely communicate with remote computers across a public WAN, such as the Internet. See IPsec VPN Overview. |
SRX>NAT |
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SRX>Identity |
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Shared Services>Firewall Profiles |
Perform security-related management tasks related to:
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Shared Services>Objects |
Mange the following objects:
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Administration |
Perform administrative tasks including:
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When you log in to Portal, the main menu (left sidebar) that is displayed and the actions that you can perform depend on your access privileges. Table 1 displays the main menu available in the Juniper Security Director Cloud Portal, a brief description of each menu item, and a link to the relevant topic in the Juniper Security Director Cloud User Guide.
Benefits of Juniper Security Director Cloud
- Manages all security deployments—physical, virtual, and containerized SRX for traditional deployments— and helps the smooth transition to a SASE architecture.
- Offers fully integrated security with unified policies at every point of connection. With unified policy management, you can create a policy once and apply it anywhere. You don't need to copy over or recreate rule sets.
- Provides a single centralized management interface that enables administrators to manage all phases of the security policy life cycle by using customizable dashboards and reports.
- Offers protection from attacks against the client and from the server-side exploits, malware, and C2 traffic, regardless of where the users and applications are located.
- Enables easy deployment and configuration for new sites using zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), auto-rule placement, and policy-based routing.
- Enables security for on-premise and cloud-based environments simultaneously and at scale, with validated efficacy against data center threats.
Access Juniper Security Director Cloud
To access Juniper Security Director Cloud portal:
- If you are logging in to Juniper Security Director Cloud for the first time, click Create an organization account link. If you already created an organization account, skip to Step 5.
- Set your login credentials, contact details, and the organization account
details according to the guidelines provided in table Table 2.
Table 2: Fields to Create an Organization Account Field
Description
Login Credentials Email
Enter a valid e-mail ID.
Password
Enter a password that contains at least one number, one uppercase letter and one special character. The password length should be between 8 to 20 characters.
Contact Details Contact Details
Enter the following contact details:
- Name—Enter your name. Only alphabets with spaces are allowed. The maximum length is 32 characters.
- Company name—Enter your company name. Only alphanumeric characters, spaces, `-` (hyphen) and `_` (underscore) are allowed. The maximum length is 64 characters.
- Country—Select the country from the dropdown list.
- Phone number—Enter a valid
phone number that can contain numbers and +, -, or
() symbols. The total length of phone number must be
7 (including hyphen) through 18 characters. Example
phone formats:
- +91-9590951194
- +918087677876
- 408-111-1111
- 1(234)56789011234
- (+351)282435050
- 90191919908
- 555-89097896
Organization account details Organization name
Enter a name for the organization account for which you would be managing the security devices and services.
Select Home Pop
Select your home region.
The home region is usually the geographical area where your SRX Series Firewalls are located. Technically, you can select any region, but we recommend you select the region that is closest to your geographical location.
Note:The Juniper Security Director Cloud FQDN of each home region is different. You must configure your network firewall to allow access to the FQDN. Contact your sales representative or account manager for the specific FQDN.
- Click Create Organization Account. You will receive an email to verify your e-mail address and to send a request to the Juniper Security Director Cloud team to activate your organization account.
- Log in to your e-mail account, open the e-mail, and click the
Activate Organization Account button to send a
request to activate your organization account.Note:
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You must verify your e-mail address and send the account activation request by clicking 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.
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You will receive an e-mail about your organization account activation status within 7 working days.
If your account activation request is approved, you will receive an e-mail with login page information.
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- 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. Note:
We recommend that you use Google Chrome (Version 85 or later) or Firefox (Version 85 or later) to access the Juniper Security Director Cloud GUI.
- Click Go to Dashboard. You can access different tasks easily using the menu bar on the left of each page. The top-level menu items are listed in Table 1.
Using Navigational Elements
For a more personal and customizable user experience, Juniper Networks provides some navigational aids within the GUI. Table 3 shows the sample of navigation, customization, and help icons.
Element | Icon | Location |
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Breadcrumbs—Trace your location in the UI. The breadcrumbs provide a path back to one of the seven starting tabs: Dashboard, Monitor, Device Management, NAT & Objects, Firewall, Advanced Security, and Administration. |
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The upper left part of the main screen below the Monitor tab. Not visible on the Dashboard. |
Info Tips—Position your mouse over any available question mark icon for quick pop-up guidance. | ![]() |
Various places around the GUI. |
Show and Hide Left-Nav—Click the hamburger icon to show or hide the left-navigation section. | ![]() |
Left side of the tab bar. |
Show/Hide Columns—In tabular displays, you can choose which columns are visible by clicking the icon, and then selecting the check boxes in the menu. | ![]() |
Upper-right corner of some tabular display windows such as the Monitor tab and the Device Management tab. |
Global Search—Search for specific data such as security policies, addresses, zone, service objects, and so on in your network. You can click the result to navigate to the specific page in the UI. You can also refine the search results based on specific criteria such as date range, device type, and policy type. You can also search for objects in your network using full or partial keywords. You can search for:
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Navigation aid on the right side of the top bar. |
Table Search—In large tabular views, you can search for specific text within any of the visible fields in the display. | ![]() |
Upper-right corner of tabular views. Next to the Show Hide Columns icon. |