MicroNugget: How to Reduce the Attack Surface of Your Juniper SRX

In this video, Michael Shannon covers how to reduce the attack surface on your Juniper SRX. Although security appliances are a critical aspect of network defense, we often spend less time considering that these appliances also need to be defended with effective security policies. Michael discusses some ways to do this.

We often think about the SRX and other security appliances as being the independent defender of our networks, both small and large, but it’s also important to protect the protector. You want to make sure that the users logging into the SRX aren’t the low-hanging fruit or weakest link in your security policy.

Michael will outline several steps you can take from the standpoint of administrative users to harden the SRX. It goes without saying that you need to have good physical security at the outset. Once that is established, the next focus should be avoiding logging in as the root user unless it’s absolutely necessary. You’ll hear other handy tips that you can immediately apply in this MicroNugget.

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