Juniper Networks’ QFabric datacenter offering aims to simplify networks, and collapse the three core, distribution layer, and access layer with only one. The company has only managed to reduce these three layers to two so far, but according to Eric Doyle, that’s enough to not only simplify networks, but also improve overall security. Juniper has a pretty solid security and mobile angle, and network simplicity will become more of a requirement as access points multiply in numbers.

Karim Toubba, vice president of marketing for Juniper’s Security, Device and Network Services Business Group, said, “With more complexity it becomes difficult to know where the threat lies. The best most people can do is to find the areas of greatest exposure and concentrate on protecting them.”

By collapsing the various layers of a network and connecting devices directly, it is possible to make the process of checking logs for suspicious activity much more effective. Still, hackers are become increasingly sophisticated with their approaches. One potential vulnerability (which Juniper has dismissed) is the company’s Junos Space platform SDK cybercriminals may be able to take advantage of.

Juniper has strengthened the security of Junos over years, and created a whole line-up of security offerings. One of its most recent deals in this space was with IBM, which has deployed Juniper networking, switching and security products at its new Auckland, New Zealand based datacenter.

Mobile and security are two very tangled up topics, and one of the more major concerns that popped up recently involves Android. Researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany have found that devices running Android version 2.3 and below are susceptible to a an impersonation attack made possible because of an impropriety implementation of the ClientLogin authentication protocol.

Beyond mobile, the cloud still has its security concerns as well. Another major security highlight lately was the Locheed Martin network disruption, which may have been directly tied in with the earlier, still somewhat blurry RSA incident.