Juniper Beyond Labs tackles AI networking, quantum security

AI-driven security and management

Another initiative is aimed at applying generative AI to understand network threat vectors, Yavatkar said.

“How do we proactively generate such threat vectors and test our products against that? More importantly, we also found a flip side – that Gen AI can be used to also come up with defenses against such threats. So there’s sort of a duality of using gen AI for both offense and defense that is going to be very important,” Yavatkar said.

The lab is also working on AI-based technology to simplify and orchestrate the management of hybrid cloud and multicloud infrastructures, Yavatkar said.

Juniper Cloud Interlink is an AI-powered software product that’s being incubated in Juniper Beyond Labs. It’s designed to securely let enterprises connect applications across public cloud, co-location and on-premise data centers at scale with fully integrated network and security stacks. Juniper Cloud Interlink collects telemetry and analytics and includes an AI engine to monitor cloud networks in real time to assure network experiences and proactively provide troubleshooting suggestions. 

Since the native network and security services offered by some cloud providers are limited, Juniper Cloud Interlink offers embedded security and supports bring-your-own security options,” Yavatkar wrote in a blog post about the product. “Its single, centralized portal provides administration, visibility into application connectivity performance and the health of the network and cost optimization for IT and DC operations teams.”

The idea is to help customers identify performance bottlenecks before they impact application performance as well as discover any misconfigured network devices that could impact the application, Yavatkar said.