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 Policies |
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SRX>NAT |
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Shared Objects>Objects |
Mange the following objects:
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Shared Objects>Firewall Profiles |
Perform security-related management tasks related to:
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Shared Objects>Identity |
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Security Subscriptions |
Advanced Security management related to:
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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 you 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
Enter a name for organization account for which you would be managing the security devices and services.
- Click Create Organization Account. You will receive an email verification link.
- Click on the Verify Email button in your e-mail to complete the organization account creation process.
- Log in to Juniper Security Director Cloud.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.
- Enter your username (e-mail ID) and password.
The Welcome page appears, listing the key features of your version of Juniper Security Director Cloud.
- (Optional) If you want to hide the Welcome page when you log in next, select the Hide this on next login check box.
- 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. |
Table Search— In large tabular views, you can search for specific text within any of the visible fields in the display. |
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Upper-right corner of tabular views. Next to the Show Hide Columns icon. |