Know your gear
A controlling element of the Juniper Networks firewall / IPSec VPN devices is the operating system, Juniper Networks NetScreen ScreenOS, a real-time, security-specific operating system.
The real-time nature of the operating system, combined with a purpose-built hardware platform, means that it does not suffer from connection table and processing limits found in general-purpose operating systems. It is designed to eliminate the known security flaws found in general-purpose operating systems. An added benefit of the real-time nature of NetScreen ScreenOS is that it cannot easily be analyzed for vulnerabilities by hackers, since the source code is not publicly available.
The real-time nature of the operating system, combined with a purpose-built hardware platform, means that it does not suffer from connection table and processing limits found in general-purpose operating systems. It is designed to eliminate the known security flaws found in general-purpose operating systems. An added benefit of the real-time nature of NetScreen ScreenOS is that it cannot easily be analyzed for vulnerabilities by hackers, since the source code is not publicly available.