I could describe the use case for Juniper Sky Enterprise. We are still in the process of POC for this product. I had been deployed and we can only use the GeoIP portion of it because we already have a proxy. We redirect users to use the proxy to actually access the internet, as opposed to leveraging that, because unless I disable the agent for our proxy, it would be unencrypted, then Juniper Sky Enterprise would be able to actually see the traffic. Currently they cannot see it. We are only using it for the GeoIP so that in the database, we know which are all the bad IPs that a user should not be interacting with or that no one should be reaching.
Implementing advanced security features requires in-depth knowledge and setup
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
What I find valuable with this product are the best features. If we were able to implement it to its full potential, anti-malware and the behavior-based features would add value to the environment. Currently, we are just leveraging the GeoIP for IP geo-fencing and other features. It is essentially simulating an IPS.
What needs improvement?
The Juniper Sky ATP could be improved. I am still relatively new to it. The primary issue is ease of use in deployment. It requires significant expertise. If I did not have a background in Juniper prior, there would have been no way I would have been able to get it working to configure it for Sky ATP because it requires extensive CLI manipulation, looking at log files and other tasks. It is not a turnkey solution where you could get a new firewall engineer to deploy.
For how long have I used the solution?
I used Proofpoint solutions in the last year. Upon reflection, I used it five years ago.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
It took us six weeks to deploy it because of version incompatibility and some other issues.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate their support with Juniper highly as the engineers I worked with were good. I would rate them a seven or eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What other advice do I have?
I am familiar with Juniper Mist Wired Assurance or Mist Premium Analytics, more on the security and firewall side. Currently, I need to renew my Juniper certification, so I am looking at Mist and some of the other cloud-based solutions.
I am familiar with the Juniper vSRX or SRX, and I am mostly an SRX specialist. I have been using it for years and we still leverage them. The virtual SRX is primarily in the home lab, but I do actually have physical SRX.
I have not tested any features such as automated network insights yet as we are still in our initial three months evaluation.
Regarding configuration management, I had previously leveraged Security Director and other items that we could utilize, but it would require a relatively large environment of Juniper devices to really take advantage of it.
I rate Juniper Sky Enterprise a six out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
