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Your Next Firewall Refresh Is a Strategic Decision, Not a Renewal
Firewall refresh cycles feel like renewal paperwork—but they’re actually your best window to rethink security architecture. With switching costs at their lowest, this is the moment to move beyond legacy perimeter defense or poor device performance toward Zero Trust, SASE, and consolidated platforms, delivering higher performance at lower cost. Get the 6-step roadmap for a refresh that pays off for years.
Versa and Infoblox: Closing the Gap Between SD-WAN and DDI
SD-WAN and DDI have long operated as disconnected silos — leaving IT teams to manually configure branches, manage failover by hand, and diagnose IP conflicts without unified visibility. The Versa and Infoblox integration changes that with automated, template-driven workflows and built-in resilience.
Introducing Versa Privileged Access Controls with Client-less ZTNA
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has become the standard architecture for securing private application access in distributed enterprises. Traditionally, most ZTNA implementations depend on endpoint agents installed on user devices to establish secure, policy-aware tunnels into enterprise environments. While this works well for managed corporate devices, it creates friction in scenarios where deploying an endpoint client is impractical—or simply undesirable.
Closing the Cloud Security Posture Management Gap with Versa CSPM
Today’s environments span multi-cloud infrastructure, SaaS ecosystems, remote endpoints, and an increasing layer of AI-driven applications and integrations. This expansion has introduced a new class of challenges—not just scale, but visibility.
Built to Innovate: How Versa’s Engineering DNA Keeps Rewriting What’s Possible
There is a particular kind of engineer drawn to building networks in software. They tend to be restless. They see the network not as fixed infrastructure, but as something programmable, something that should adapt to the business rather than force the business to adapt to it.
Automating Branch-to-Cloud Connectivity and Security: Versa Secure SD-WAN Integration with Zscaler Internet Access
We’re excited to introduce an automated integration between Versa Secure SD-WAN and Zscaler that makes dual-vendor SASE faster, secure and resilient. This integration helps you secure local internet breakout, improve user experience and simplify operations
Building Secure, AI-Optimized Data Centers: A Blueprint for CIOs and Network Architects
Artificial Intelligence is pushing enterprise data centers to their limits and most aren’t ready. As organizations deploy GPU-packed clusters and scale out AI inference, traditional architectures struggle to deliver the performance, scalability, and uncompromising security that modern AI demands. Regulated industry-based Enterprises or those with critical intellectual property or sensitive information are not willing to put their sensitive data on third-party clouds or AI applications hosted elsewhere.
Introducing the Versa Secure Enterprise Browser Early Access Program — Sign Up for Early Access
The browser is the primary enterprise workspace, but most security controls stop at the network or endpoint layer. Versa Secure Enterprise Browser brings Zero Trust enforcement directly into the browser session. Join the Early Access Program to secure SaaS, GenAI, and BYOD access within the Versa SASE platform.
Delivering Uninterrupted Enterprise 5G Connectivity with Versa and 10T Solutions
We are excited to announce a powerful integration between Versa Networks and 10T Solutions. This industry-leading innovation brings native multi-carrier 10T eSIM connectivity directly to Versa Secure SD-WAN appliances. Enterprises are rapidly adopting cellular connectivity to accelerate branch deployments, support mobile operations, and ensure business continuity.
Introducing Sovereign SASE as a Service
In 2025, Versa became the first SASE vendor to introduce Sovereign SASE, creating a model specifically designed to meet jurisdictional, regulatory, and operational sovereignty requirements. You likely already know that traditional cloud and SASE platforms, while globally scalable, often don’t provide the level of control you need if you operate in regulated industries or public sector environments. For many organizations like yours, simply knowing where data resides is no longer enough.
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Comprehensive Threat Defense: How Versa Uses the MITRE ATT&CK Framework for Threat Detection and Response
By Anusha Vaidyanathan
Sr. Director, Product Management
September 12, 2024
Versa Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution designed to protect organizations from sophisticated threats across various vectors. Versa’s ATP detection reports are mapped directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, providing security teams a fingerprint of attacks, which can then be used for attribution to known adversaries, incident response, simulation attacks, and other security measures.
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Transforming IT Troubleshooting: How Versa DEM Resolves User Experience Problems and Empowers Your Distributed Workforce
By Rahul Vaidya
Director, Product Management
September 5, 2024
Versa DEM provides IT teams with unparalleled visibility across devices, networks, and applications, regardless of where users are located. It allows IT to see and analyze performance metrics for each network segment, enabling them to pinpoint issues quickly and accurately.
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Versa Enhances Microsoft Azure vWAN Integration
By Yusuf Fidvi
Systems Engineer
August 29, 2024
Versa Networks, in partnership with Microsoft Azure, has released an enhancement to the Versa Operating System (VOS) Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) deployed in Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN). The changes to the existing offering are as follows: VOS is Versa’s multi-tenant, multi-service operating system and the integration extends the power of SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, and software-defined routing into the Microsoft Azure cloud. The VOS NVA, offered through the Azure Marketplace, is the same cloud-native Versa software deployed by over tens of thousands of enterprises worldwide. Using Versa, enterprises benefit from rich functionality to securely connect users to the applications on Microsoft…
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Least Privilege Access: The Cornerstone of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
June 6, 2024
Least Privilege Access (LPA) is the foundation of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), ensuring users, applications, and devices only receive the minimum access necessary to perform their tasks—reducing attack surfaces, preventing lateral movement, and strengthening security posture against evolving cyber threats. This blog explores why LPA is critical to ZTNA and how organizations can implement it effectively with Versa’s security solutions.
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Evolving Threats, Intelligent Responses: AI and SSE in Versa’s SASE Strategy
The sophistication and frequency of threats necessitate a dynamic and intelligent approach to cyber defense. Artificial Intelligence (AI) combined with Secure Service Edge (SSE) is a pivotal element in this defense strategy, especially within the context of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework. In this blog, we will explore how Versa Networks leverages these powerful tools to provide advanced data protection and maintain a robust security posture in the face of such evolving threats. Introduction to the Evolving Threat Landscape and the Role of AI and SSE in Data Protection Traditional security measures struggle to keep up with this…
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Securing GenAI Usage with Versa’s GenAI Firewall
By Anusha Vaidyanathan
Sr. Director, Product Management
May 6, 2024
Versa GenAI Firewall safeguards sensitive data from being uploaded into Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) while limiting shadow use cases of GenAI. It manages, monitors, and reports how your organization uses GenAI – including assessments on the riskiness of apps, controlling access, and preventing unauthorized data movement. Securing Generative AI Applications: Beyond LLMs While ensuring security for large language models (LLMs) is necessary to facilitate the adoption of GenAI applications within organizations, it is equally crucial to address broader concerns related to generative AI. Let’s delve into additional considerations: User-to-Application Access Control: Context: Generative AI tools are often accessed by…
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Building Context with UEBA relationship graphs, using GraphML
By Sridhar Iyer
Director, Machine Learning & AI
May 2, 2024
Versa UEBA incorporates GraphML to generate insights and detect anomalies in user relationship graphs. Anomaly and behavior detections are just the first step. We then need to quickly pivot into building the forensics to inform response and remediation. This can involve determining the origination point of a malicious activity or an attack and building the scope and scale of a potential breach.
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Data Defense in Depth: Unifying Data Protection and Zero Trust through SASE for Ultimate Data Protection with Versa Networks
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats, data protection has become a priority concern. Traditional security models are proving inadequate in the face of sophisticated attacks, leading organizations to seek out more dynamic and robust approaches to securing their data. The integration of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust architectures offers a promising approach to modern cybersecurity challenges. In this blog, we delve into how Versa Networks merges SASE and Zero Trust to ensure the protection of data in today’s landscape.
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CyberRatings.org Recommends Versa Networks as a Top Tier Next Generation Firewall for Cloud Deployments
By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
April 3, 2024
Cloud security is mission critical especially in an environment where cyber threats have evolved in frequency and sophistication like never before making the need for highly efficient and robust cloud firewall solutions is undeniable. CyberRatings.org (CRO) is a cyber assessment firm focused on providing independent, objective ratings of security product efficacy based on real-world testing. They just finished a rigorous evaluation of eleven vendors in the Cloud Network Firewall space, including the Versa Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) for cloud deployments. This detailed analysis tested Cloud Firewall performance for key capabilities across: Versa NGFW was rated in the top 3 products…
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Securing IoT Devices on Mobile Networks
By Rahul Vaidya
Director, Product Management
February 22, 2024
Securing the over three billion IoT devices globally connected to corporate systems via mobile networks presents a formidable and growing challenge for organizations worldwide. Driven by the adoption of newer IoT-specific cell technologies like LTE-M, NB-IoT, and LTE-Cat 1, along with a boom in 5G module shipments as older 2G and 3G modules are phased out, the number of cell-connected IoT devices is growing 27 percent a year, taking market share from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections. My recent collaboration with the network and security team of one of our industrial customers provided a front-row seat to the complexities of safeguarding…
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2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms
Versa has for the fourth consecutive year been recognized in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms1 and is one of only 12 vendors that met the criteria for inclusion based on the analysts’ evaluation of the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform.