Next Generation Firewall

Highest performance for you - today and tomorrow

Performance is crucial when selecting a firewall, as it directly impacts network security, user experience, and business operations. As your traffic grows, a high-performance firewall scales with you without needing constant upgrades. It supports deep packet inspection (DPI), intrusion prevention, and encryption without compromising speed. Conversely, a low-performance firewall can bottleneck remote connections, degrading user experience. Versa Networks led all Tier-1 NGFW vendors in independent testing, delivering the highest-rated throughput.

CyberRatings.org: Enterprise Firewall

• Highest rated performance throughput at 7,626 Mbps
• Highest raw packet processing performance (UDP Throughput)
• Highest efficiency of HTTPS vs HTTP capacity & throughput , which measures how encryption overhead affects the bandwidth for the provided payloads
• Highest performance on the majority of 'real-world' single application flows

Best security effectiveness you need

Exploit protection, evasion resistance, stability/reliability are critical pillars of firewall security. In a recent independent evaluation, Versa Networks NGFW secured top ratings in these categories among Tier-1 vendors. This success stems from its advanced intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) capabilities, which safeguard against ransomware and malware. Its Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) technology excels at identifying and stopping zero-day and persistent attacks. Additionally, it ensures continuous web traffic inspection to block harmful content and applications effectively at scale.

• Comprehensive threat detection and prevention: Multiple IDS/IPS engines, antivirus, malware protection, URL filtering, DNS security, reputation-based algorithms, and signature-based detection
• AI-powered ATP: Uses AI/ML, sandboxes, static/dynamic analysis, and UEBA, aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Continuous inspection of web traffic at scale - scans both unencrypted and HTTPS/TLS traffic (including TLS 1.3)
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP): AI-driven content analysis to secure files, metadata, emails, and other content with predefined or custom DLP profiles.
• Built-in protection for DoS attacks, Carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT), and Application Layer Gateway (ALG)

Application, device, and user visibility and control

Firewalls rely on application, user, and device visibility and control to prevent data breaches, ensure compliance, and maintain network efficiency. Versa NGFW offers advanced application-layer security to safeguard your entire network against both known and unknown threats. It classifies and secures all traffic—no matter the user, device, or location—enhancing security, ensuring application availability, and improving the user experience.

• Database of 4,500+ applications with Inline visibility and control over both sanctioned and unsanctioned apps.
• Seamless integration with leading Identity Providers (IDPs) for authentication and security access policies.
• Device identification/fingerprinting and classification capabilities that recognize 1M+ IoT, OT, and BYOD devices with policy enforcement based on type, posture, and compliance
• On-premises ZTNA for client and clientless deployments.
• Built-in protection for DoS attacks, Carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT), and Application Layer Gateway (ALG)

Benefit from the lowest cost of ownership

Organizations prioritize firewalls that meet their security needs and fit their budget. With forced hardware refreshes and steep renewal price hikes from most Tier-1 NGFW vendors, the cost of ownership is now more critical than ever. According to an independent analysis, Versa NGFW delivers industry-leading security and performance while offering the lowest price per protected Mbps among firewalls with a Recommended rating.

CyberRatings.org: Enterprise Network Firewall

• The lowest price per Protected Mbps among all Tier-1 NGFW vendors with a Recommended rating as per an independent evaluation
• CyberRatings believes a security device's value requires considering the relationship between price, performance, manageability, and security, so they take the Price/Mbps and divide it by the protection rate for the value metric. Versa NGFW has the lowest price per Mbps among all tier 1 recommended vendors

Simplify and streamline operations

Simplifying lifecycle management ensures ease of management, cost efficiency, and uniform policy enforcement, even in distributed or hybrid environments. It enables rapid adaptation to network growth or changes, ensuring seamless scalability with minimal effort and expense. Versa NGFW is designed for effortless deployment and lifecycle management, seamlessly integrating into your existing environment. With comprehensive real-time and historical telemetry, it delivers unmatched end-to-end visibility

• Zero Touch Provisioning
• Unified policy management that follows users anywhere
• Single-pane-of-glass visibility and control
• Native and API integrations with 3rd-party IAM, SIEMs, DLP engines, SOAR platforms, encryption engines, etc.
• Real-time and historical telemetry for end-to-end visibility
• AIOps-driven diagnostics to detect, prioritize, and resolve issues proactively

Extensible to other use cases

You can extend Versa NGFW to deliver adaptive protection, intelligent access control, and seamless connectivity for users, devices, and applications. Key additional use cases for extending Versa NGSW include integrated IT/IoT security, micro-segmentation, Gen AI Firewall, CASB, ZTNA, and SASE.

Gen AI applications

• Fingerprints, classifies, and secures IoT/OT devices
• Zero trust-based conditional access, continuously assessing user and device security posture
• Security controls to prevent data leakage and mitigate risk for GenAI applications
• Granular access control and administration of cloud-based data and applications
• Unified SASE platform (Versa One) with a single OS, console, and unified policies across SD-WAN, NGFW, SSE, CASB, and ZTNA. All telemetry data flows into a single, AI-ready data lake.