The cyber security problem is growing at about the same rate as tech innovation itself — which is to say, most folks are having trouble keeping up. The types of threats are multiplying together with access points — like the number of different devices on which people store data. A pure-play security company might find it hard to span all the terrain that is now vulnerable to breach. Could a networking company keeping one foot on home-base and setting the other into security have just enough reach?

During Juniper NXTWORK 2016, Denise Shiffman, senior VP of Product Management at Juniper Networks Inc., spoke about the networking company’s new security offerings. “One of the big things that we announced today is really about extending security from the firewall into the network infrastructure, into the switching infrastructure, and stopping threats at the switch-port,” she said.

Shiffman told John Furrier (@furrier) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, a company dealing only in firewalls would not have the same ease of access into the deeper network. “They would have to do an entire overlay on the network. They would have to put firewalls everywhere. It’s a magnitude difference in cost,” she said.

Juniper helps the partners, and itself

Shiffman said that Juniper’s new security products utilize open APIs to facilitate partnering and integrating with other companies, which lets them implement new security tech at the rate attackers are hacking the old stuff.

“That’s probably the most interesting thing about having an open intelligence platform, and open API. There’s new startups coming everyday with new ways to find threats,” she said.

Shiffman added that sharing data — and especially Juniper’s network reach — with the third parties will help them help Juniper, and so on.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Juniper NXTWORK 2016 event.

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