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1 Company: Expedient Industry: Technology Business Challenges: Quickly provision managed security services that are tailored to customer needs Technology Soluon: vSRX Virtual Firewall Junos Space Virtual Director Junos Space Security Director • Oeredcustomized managed security services • Usedautomaontodeploy security services in minutes, not hours • Simpliedsecurityoperaons Expedient provides IT infrastructure outsourcing services, including managed Expedient is known for its highly reliable and interconnected facilies, leading-edge services, and technically competent customer service. The privately-held company has 11 data centers in Boston, Balmore, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Memphis, and Pisburgh. Business Challenge Businesses, schools, and government agencies rely on Expedients managed network threats from interrupng their businesses. Expedient wanted to oer customers greater control over their managed security services so that customers could tailor their protecon to their business needs and compliance requirements. Technology Soluon To support a more exible and customizable managed security service, Expedient ago, Expedient deployed Juniper Networks ® vSRX Virtual Firewall to support its managed security service, allowing each customer to have its own dedicated rewall. With vSRX, customers can leave the tradional, monolithic rewall environment behind for a new soluon with granular security control. vSRX provides strong advanced security and rich networking and roung delivered in a virtual machine. “OneofposivesofvSRXdierentservices wecanoertocustomers.Using freedengineeringcycles allowedtointroduceservicesfaster.’ - Bryan Smith, Regional Vice President, Expedient EXPEDIENT KEEPS CUSTOMERS AVAILABLE WITH v SRX Summary Customer Story 2 Business Results Expedient can now oer security services that are tailored to customers’ specic needs and accelerate service delivery. Hundreds of Expedient customers use vSRX, and the company expects signicant growth as other customers are migrated from its physical rewall infrastructure. To handle the demand, Expedient has customized and automated the deployment of its managed security service, cung provisioning from hours to minutes. Security automaon allows Expedient to get customers connected and protected fasterand signicantly reduces the workload of the security operaons center. That eciency is important for the security operaons team, which provides around-the-clock service, support, and monitoring of customers’ networks. Not only has vSRX allowed us to speed service delivery to our customers, but it also reducedoperaonalcomplexity.’ - Kevin Meyer, Director of Product Engineering, Expedient In addion, customers can manage their own security rules with Expedient’s self-service opon to meet specic business needs or compliance requirements. Customers have such granular control over their security policies that they can even enforce dierent policies for dierent applicaons. vSRX has enabled Expedient to introduce new products and services to customers. “One of the big posives of vSRX is the dierent services we can oer to customers,” says Bryan Smith, regional vice president at Expedient. “Using virtual security services has freed up engineering cycles and support me, which has allowed us to introduce services faster.” Expedient uses full automaon to fail over a customer’s site from one data center to another in a maer of minutes. No changes to Domain Name System (DNS) or IP addresses are made at the failover site, which vastly simplies disaster recovery. This service leverages both vSRX and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. “Customers can push a buon and move their environment from one Expedient locaon to another, and bring it back up immediately,” says Smith. “It’s important to make disaster recovery easier, because you dont know what your employees will be focused on when the me comes.” Expedient customers can take advantage of comprehensive security services, including intrusion detecon and prevenon and anvirus and anspam protecon, based on the advanced security capabilies of vSRX. Advanced services are crical, as threats are increasingly sophiscated and organizaons of all types are under constant aack. With vSRX, Expedient can beer protect each customer from cyberthreats. In a multenant model with tradional rewalls, if one customer experiences a cyberaack, the aack could impact all customers sharing the same physical rewall. Now with vSRX, an aack or a spike in trac is isolated to that customer only. “Not only has vSRX allowed us to speed service delivery to our customers, but it also has reduced operaonal complexity,” says Kevin Meyer, director of product engineering at Expedient. For instance, with vSRX, Expedient’s operaon sta works with a much smaller rewall rule set, which simplies operaons and migates the risk of error. Next Steps Expedient is expanding data center locaons and oering new services. Its managed security service is contribung to that growth, as Expedient migrates more customers to the service based on vSRX. Expedient and Juniper Networks also are working closely together to explore the boundaries of scalability and performance of virtual security for cloud services as well as across mulple hypervisors. Expedient is looking to test higher speed throughput in the next-generaon vSRX as well as expand the service to include mulple hypervisors. Expedient plans to take advantage of advances in Intel processor technology to accelerate encrypon, and Juniper Networks tools to provide its 24x7 operaon support team with a single, easy-to-use interface to manage its ever-growing technology infrastructure. For More Informaon To nd out more about Juniper Networks products and soluons, please visit www.juniper.net 3 EXPLORE JUNIPERGet the App. About Juniper Networks Juniper Networks brings simplicity to networking with products, soluons and services that connect the world. Through engineering innovaon, we remove the constraints and complexies of networking in the cloud era to solve the toughest challenges our customers and partners face daily. At Juniper Networks, we believe that the network is a resource for sharing knowledge and human advancement that changes the world. We are commied to imagining groundbreaking ways to deliver automated, scalable and secure networks to move at the speed of business. 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