“Hybrid mesh firewalls provide unified, multiform‑factor firewall security, giving organizations consistent policy, visibility, and enforcement across on‑premises, cloud, and remote environments. With hardware appliances, virtual firewalls, cloud‑native firewalls, and firewall as a service (FWaaS) under a single management plane, teams can apply the same rules everywhere to reduce gaps and complexity,” Lanza wrote.
HPE’s hybrid mesh firewalls are controlled by company’s management platform, HPE Juniper Networking Security Director. “Enhancements to the chatbot within Juniper Security Director now make it easier for any IT operator to understand security posture and review and implement change, without dedicated security expertise,” Lanza wrote. She gave examples of how operators can query the bot in natural language and receive guidance on topics with queries such as:
- Provision the SRX for {vendor} cloud deployment
- Import policies from {vendor} firewall and translate to SRX intent with parity checks
- Identify rules with zero hits in {time window} and propose cleanup
- Create a policy that lets {role/group} access {app/service} from {locations} during {schedule} with {inspection}
Announced at the RSAC 2026 Conference this week, the AI management controls are supported by features introduced in a new release of Junos OS and implemented across the vendor’s SRX firewalls.
