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To 100G and Beyond: The Next Frontier for SASE
By Rajoo Nagar
January 24, 2024
To 100G and Beyond: The Next Frontier for SASE In the ever-evolving landscape of enterprise networking and security, a significant transformation is underway. Siloed, point product infrastructures are giving way to a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) approach, driven by the rapid adoption of cloud technologies, the increased reliance on collaboration tools, and the emergence of hybrid work models.
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Three Reasons Why Zero Trust Edge Will Supercharge the U.S. Department of Defense’s Move to a Zero Trust Architecture
By Imran Umar (Vice President, Booz Allen) and Kelly Ahuja (CEO, Versa Networks)
January 17, 2024
Cyber adversaries will stop at nothing to compromise any military systems, data, and missions. That’s why the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is adopting zero trust—a security framework that presumes networks are compromised and counters threats by design. All DOD organizations are expected to achieve “Target Level” Zero Trust Architecture by 2027. This requires multiple security functions to identify, authenticate, and authorize users or devices based on posture to securely connect to applications. As a result, the DOD turned to Booz Allen and Versa Networks to develop a security hardened Zero Trust Edge approach that will transform the DOD’s infrastructure…
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Unlocking the Power of SD-WAN and Hyperscalers‘ Backbone Highways
By Matej Kultan
Systems Engineer, Versa Networks
January 5, 2024
In today’s digital era, businesses require seamless connectivity and optimal application performance across their globally dispersed sites to stay productive. Combining Versa Networks Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) with Hyperscalers‘ “private highways” is an innovative approach to achieve this goal.
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You know you need a new SD-WAN when…
By Dan Maier
Chief Marketing Officer, Versa Networks
December 14, 2023
Looking to learn the signs why its time to consider a new SD-WAN? Explore the key indicators that your current SD-WAN might be falling short here!
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Versa Networks Selected by DISA’s Thunderdome Program to Deliver Cutting-Edge SD-WAN and Zero Trust Access
By Versa Staff
Versa Networks
December 6, 2023
Zero Trust is widely considered to be the future of security for protecting networks, systems and data in both commercial and public sector organizations. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been making significant strides in modernizing its cybersecurity infrastructure in response to a presidential mandate to adopt a Zero Trust architecture.
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Versa Security Bulletin: Okta Customer Support Security Incident
By Versa Security Research Team
December 5, 2023
On October 20, 2023, Okta disclosed a security incident affecting their customer support management system. In a note following that disclosure Okta said that from September 28, 2023, to October 17, 2023, a threat actor gained unauthorized access to files inside Okta’s customer support system associated with 134 Okta customers, or less than 1% of Okta customers.
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Modernizing Retail with Secure SD-WAN
By Leo Jiao
Sr. Systems Engineer. Versa Networks
November 2, 2023
In recent years we’ve witnessed transformative changes in both technology and the retail industry. The retail world has seen tremendous ups and downs over the past several years thanks to the impact of COVID. In addition to challenges such as store closures, reduced foot traffic, and supply chain problems, digital disruptions include an increasing shift to e-commerce and new types of cyber threats that have dramatically changed how people shop and how retail businesses should operate. In the technology world, numerous stunning innovations such as AI/ML-assisted network operations and threat detection are making people’s jaws drop because of their capabilities…
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Versa Security Bulletin: Cisco IOS XE Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability affecting upwards of 50k devices (patched)
By Jayesh Gangadas Patel
Principle Threat Researcher, Versa Networks
October 26, 2023
Summary On October 16, 2023, Cisco reported two new vulnerabilities in the web UI for its Cisco IOS XE operating system that runs many of its routers and switches, CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273. These vulnerabilities were initially being exploited by unknown hackers and affected more than 10,000 devices at the time of its first known existence. However, in the following days the attack was leveraged to affect more than 50,000 devices, and that’s when a free software fix was identified by Cisco to keep a check on devices. Cisco released the updated version 17.9.4a on October 23 to fix the issue….
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Zero Trust Networking – Part 2
By Kelly Ahuja
CEO, Versa Networks
October 26, 2023
The future will rely on an authentically Unified Zero Trust Networking platform – a singular, integrated platform meticulously crafted to seamlessly converges networking and security. What must Zero Trust Networking deliver?
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Versa Secure SD-WAN and AWS Cloud WAN Tunnel-Less Connect
By Leo Jiao
Sr. Systems Engineer. Versa Networks
October 24, 2023
Today, AWS announced Tunnel-less Connect on Cloud WAN. This new capability provides customers with a simple, high-performance mechanism to build a global SD-WAN architecture using AWS Global Network as a middle-mile transport network. With this capability, SD-WAN appliances can natively peer with Cloud WAN using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) without the need for tunneling. Native BGP support between SD-WAN appliances in a VPC and AWS Cloud WAN, without the need for tunnels, simplifies the extension of SD-WAN deployments in AWS cloud and enables access to AWS’ high bandwidth global network for branch-to-cloud connectivity. As part of this announcement, Versa Secure…
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