Juniper Cloud Workload Protection controls application execution, monitors for signs of attacks, and takes steps to block them. Credit: Thinkstock Juniper Networks continues to grow its enterprise cloud-security family with a new product that promises to protect application workloads in any cloud or on-premises environment. The company rolled out Juniper Cloud Workload Protection package–a lightweight software agent that the company says controls application execution and monitors application behavior to help businesses spot and fix anomalies. The idea is to provide protection from attackers looking to exploit application vulnerabilities, said Kate Adam, senior director of security product marketing for Juniper Networks. “When application code is written, it sometimes contains errors which present opportunities that attackers can use to exploit the underlying resources and process or workloads that power the application, such as databases and data collectors,” Adam said. “Just look at the latest public breaches. Most, if not all of them involve the successful exploitation of one or more application vulnerabilities.” Cloud Workload Protection deploys in Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon Web Services’ Fargate container-deployment services at the container, host, or VM level. In addition, there is a small application-specific component that is loaded at runtime, similar to what is used in application performance-monitoring solutions, Adam said. The agent moniors application functions and its calls to services to understand what the app was intended to do, then looks for deviations from that vs. what’s happening in real-time. The deviations are likely potential exploits, and many times vulnerability remediation is done automatically without admin intervention, Adam said. The agent also notifies Juniper’s sRX virtual firewalls, which can further augment risk-mitigation by enforcing segmentation. Automated threat response with built-in, real-time telemetry helps security teams detect threats and block them across the entire network, Adam said. The new agent is part of Juniper’s overarching Connected Security architecture that features myriad enterprise security components from its central Security Director and Policy Enforcer to threat detection offering up a software-defined containment system to protect networks and reduce security concerns, Juniper says. Cloud Workload Protection will be available in September. Related content analysis IBM drops $6.4B to grab HashiCorp multi-cloud automation technology HashiCorp automation technology will fit into IBM’s Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation and consulting businesses By Michael Cooney Apr 24, 2024 3 mins Cloud Architecture Private Cloud news Nvidia to buy AI orchestration software provider Run:ai Reported $700 million acquisition is aimed at helping AI users with workload management and resource allocation. By Jon Gold Apr 24, 2024 3 mins CPUs and Processors how-to Using the apropos command on Linux By Sandra Henry-Stocker Apr 24, 2024 3 mins Linux news 2024 global network outage report and internet health check ThousandEyes tracks internet and cloud traffic and provides Network World with weekly updates on the performance of ISPs, cloud service providers, and UCaaS providers. By Ann Bednarz Apr 24, 2024 38 mins Internet Service Providers Network Management Software Cloud Computing PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe