it security computer software computer hardware fate acquired by juniper networks defunct 2004 2004 headquarters sunnyvale ca . united states key people ken xie cto ceo and co founder yan ke co founder feng deng co founder robert thomas ceo anson chen vp r & d nir zuk cto products network security and access solutions and appliances . parent juniper networks website www.juniper.net netscreen technologies was an american technology company that was acquired by juniper networks for us 4 billion stock for stock in 2004 . 1 2 netscreen technologies developed asic based internet security systems and appliances that delivered high performance firewall vpn and traffic shaping functionality to internet data centers e business sites broadband service providers and application service providers . netscreen was the first firewall manufacturer to develop a gigabit speed firewall the netscreen 1000 . 3 contents 1 history 2 aftermath 3 2015 unauthorized code incident 4 references history edit netscreen technologies was founded by yan ke ken xie and feng deng . 4 ken xie chief technology officer and co founder was also the ceo until robert thomas joined in 1998 . 5 robert thomas netscreen s president and chief executive officer came to netscreen in 1998 from sun microsystems where he was general manager of intercontinental operations for sun s software business which includes security networking and internet tools . 6 ken xie left netscreen in 2000 to found fortinet a competing asic based firewall company . 7 netscreen acquired its core ips technology through the purchase of onesecure inc. for us 45 million in stock in 2002 . onesecure was created by rakesh loonkar subsequently the co founder of trusteer and israeli engineer nir zuk who had been one of check point software s first employees and later went on to found palo alto networks . in 2003 netscreen hired anson chen as its vice president of research and development . anson chen a 12 year veteran of cisco systems inc. and its former vice president and general manager of the network management and services technology group lead engineering research and development efforts for netscreen s entire product line including its firewall ipsec virtual private network vpn and intrusion detection and prevention technologies . chen also had functional management responsibility for netscreen s secure access products . 8 aftermath edit yan ke and feng deng stayed with juniper after the acquisition but then left juniper in 2005 and started northern light venture capital a china concept venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage opportunities in tmt consumer clean technologies and life science industries . 9 10 nir zuk stayed with juniper after the acquisition but then left in 2005 to start a new company palo alto networks . 11 12 palo alto networks products are similar to onesecure netscreen juniper s ips technology as they share a common heritage . 2015 unauthorized code incident edit main article screenos analysis of the firmware code has also shown that there could exist a backdoor key using dual ec drbg enabling whoever hold that key to passively decrypt traffic encrypted by screenos . this is enabled by some very strange code in screenos which could possibly be a deliberate backdoor . this possible backdoor still exists in screenos . 13 in december 2015 juniper systems announced that they had discovered unauthorized code in the screenos software that underlies their netscreen devices present from 2012 onwards . there were two vulnerabilities one was a simple root password backdoor and the other one was changing a point in dual ec drbg so that the attackers presumably had the key to use the preexisting intentional or unintentional kleptographic backdoor in screenos to passively decrypt traffic . 14 references edit juniper acquires netscreen . networkworld.com . 02 09 2004 . retrieved 2009 01 29 . check date values in date help juniper networks completes acquisition of netscreen technologies and appoints frank j. marshall to the juniper networks board of directors . juniper press release . april 16 2004 . retrieved 2009 03 05 . nupremis deploys the netscreen 1000 best of breed security solution for global data centers . market wire . 2005 . http www.highbeam.com doc 1g1 87845891.html http www.highbeam.com doc 1g1 50106034.html http www.highbeam.com doc 1g1 53230275.html fortinet http www.highbeam.com doc 1g1 131629611.html http www.crunchbase.com person yan ke http www.nlightvc.com en http www.paloaltonetworks.com company management.html levi ofer 2005 03 02 nir zuk to leave juniper networks globes kim zetter 2015 12 18 . secret code found in juniper s firewalls shows risk of government backdoors . wired . retrieved 2015 12 25 . archive url is malformed timestamp help http blog.cryptographyengineering.com 2015 12 on juniper backdoor.html v t e juniper networks people shaygan kheradpir scott kriens pradeep sindhu products m series t series j series e series mx series jcs1200 ex series system software junos os junos sdk junose screenos acquisitions list layer five 99 pacific advantage ltd 00 micro magic inc. 00 pacific broadband 01 nexsi systems 02 unisphere networks 02 netscreen technologies 04 kagoor networks 05 peribit networks 05 redline networks 05 acorn packet solutions 05 funk software 05 ankeena networks 10 trapeze networks 10 smobile systems 10 altor networks 10 brilliant telecommunications 11 mykonos software 12 contrail systems 12 webscreen 13 wandl 13 certification juniper networks technical certification program retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title netscreen technologies & oldid 735014225 categories juniper networksdefunct companies based in californiatechnology companies disestablished in 2004networking hardware companiesserver appliancecomputer security companieshidden categories cs1 errors datespages with archiveurl citation errors navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate 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