“We are excited to intensify our collaboration with Juniper and to enable a complete remote access VPN solution that will be compatible with the SRX Series,” said Patrick Oliver Graf, CEO at NCP engineering. Additionally, the solution offers a personal dynamic firewall, an integrated internet connection manager for WiFi, 3G and 4G, VPN bypass functionality and NCP engineering’s PathFinder technology. The solution, which is comprised of the NCP Secure Enterprise Management (SEM) system, includes a console to fully automate login and certificate provisioning as well as one-click user and device administration to quickly add or revoke permissions. Support for Android, iOS smartphones and other devices will be available soon. Juniper Networks’ VPN and Juniper Networks® SRX Series firewalls are now compatible with NCP’s Exclusive Remote Access Clients to support a broad array of endpoint devices such as Windows and Mac computers, laptops and tablets. Still some distance compared to FortiGate but at least they seems making progress in right direction.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–( BUSINESS WIRE)–NCP engineering today announced an alliance with Juniper Networks to enable a comprehensive, secure VPN remote access solution. IMO, Juniper Secure Connect simplifies the setup complexity quite a lot, both on SRX and client software, compared to previous versions. JSC was release by Juniper around Nov 2020, it is quite new and are not well advertised, that's why even our local distributor are mistakenly provided NCP by default. JSC is now the suggested way of remote access VPN on SRX, except for those (rich enough) to use the whole NCP solution. So basically JSC is just lite version of NCP with only SSLVPN feature, and requires only remote access license on SRX device, and it should be capable to do everything a VPN should do. So they develop JSC on top the SSLVPN feature from NCP (you can see both GUI are nearly twins).

NCP client itself need to be separately purchased from NCP (not provided by Juniper), which also provides many advanced feature (thus price tag.) including centralized endpoint management etc, and Juniper is only using its VPN features.Īfter the Pandemic, Juniper found many customer require SSLVPN feature without whole brunch of fancy NCP stuff. And now Juniper Secure Connect (JSC) is the default remote access VPN suggested by Juniper. So, as everyone knows Pulse is still usable but heading to EOL soon, NCP was the successor. Hi all, here is some updates after discussing with Juniper's Engineer.Īfter some days of email exchange, our confusion got escalated from local distributor to Juniper's Team, and their engineers are helpful to explain and clarify.

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