Posts tagged ‘AI Security’
The Trust Layer: How Versa Delivers AI-Driven NetOps with Explainability and Zero Trust Guardrails
AI in NetOps is transitioning from passive alerting to active decision support and execution, but adoption depends on whether engineers can trust it. Learn how Versa’s single-OS platform, unified data lake, Versa Verbo Copilot, and patent-pending Zero Trust MCP Server deliver AI-driven NetOps with explainability and governance built in.
The New OWASP GenAI Top 10 and Why Network Security Matters
Almost every risk in the 2026 OWASP GenAI Top 10 leaves observable artifacts at the network layer. This post walks through all ten categories, real-world incidents behind each one, and the specific SASE controls (SWG, CASB, DLP, ZTNA, RBI) that catch what app-layer guardrails miss.
Pervasive Security and Why the AI Era Needs a New Security Model
Attackers now exploit in hours while breaches take months to contain. Fragmented tools can’t close that gap. Here’s the case for Pervasive Security.
Beyond the Console: MCP and the New Operating Model for Enterprise Infrastructure
Enterprises are converging on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI agents to networking and security infrastructure. This piece looks at why an enterprise routing and governance layer, not just vendor-specific MCP servers, is becoming essential for provisioning, troubleshooting, and threat hunting across a multi-vendor stack.
Beyond Integration: Why a Truly Unified Branch Needs Intelligent Edge, Pervasive Security, and AI-Native Operations
Piecemeal SASE creates security debt. See how Versa unifies pervasive security, intelligent edge, and AI-native operations on one platform.
MITRE ATT&CK vs. MITRE ATLAS: Two Frameworks, One Expanding Threat Landscape
I have been in cyber security for over 25 years. And I have done my fair share of penetration testing/offensive security and I am quite familiar with the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Not long ago, I had the chance to dig into AI offensive security techniques hands-on. I assumed we would use the standard Kali-style hacking tools and follow the usual TTPs. I was wrong. We never fired up a Kali Linux instance or used a single tool from the past 30+ years. Instead, we learned how to trick the LLM into giving us information it was not supposed to. For…
The Network Is The First Line Of Defense – It’s Time To Treat It That Way
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Requires a New Approach to Network Security
The Complexity Tax: What Enterprise Fragmentation Is Actually Costing You
Thirty-five percent of organizations surveyed for Versa’s inaugural Annual State of SASE + AI Report, “The Cost of Complexity suffered a security breach in the past year that was directly caused or worsened by poor coordination between networking and security teams. Not by a sophisticated nation-state actor. Not by a zero-day exploit. By the seam between two teams that report to different people, fund different tools, and measure success differently.
Beyond Security: How Agentic AI is Redefining Infrastructure Operations
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping infrastructure operations. Much of the early focus has been on transforming security operations including automating threat detection, accelerating response times, and reducing security analyst fatigue. While these advancements are essential, they address only part of the problem. Modern enterprises operate highly distributed environments where network performance, application delivery, and user experience are just as critical as security. Limiting AI transformation to security operations alone is no longer sufficient. Enterprises today require a unified operational model that spans network operations, security enforcement, user experience, and infrastructure management. The real opportunity is not just to make security…
AI Thought Leadership
The WAN for AI-era applications is becoming a single system
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
April 23, 2026
Dell’Oro Group is putting a sharper name on something enterprise teams have been feeling for a while: in the AI era, the “WAN” cannot be a collection of loosely coupled products anymore. It has to operate like one end-to-end system with one policy model, one telemetry story, and one operational workflow.
AI Thought Leadership
Part 7. End-to-End Flow: North–South and East–West Controls (How It All Comes Together)
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
April 13, 2026
This series introduced the building blocks of enterprise GenAI security. In Parts 1–6 we introduced the building blocks. This post shows how the whole system works end-to-end, using one simple picture and a few real-world walk-throughs.
AI Thought Leadership
Part 6. The Full AI Security Architecture: Secure the Brain, Secure the Hands, Secure the Memory
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
April 1, 2026
By now you’ve seen the building blocks:
Discovery
Control
Prompt inspection
Model governance
Tool governance
This post ties these pieces into one system that a real enterprise can run.
Industry Insights
Catching a Ni8mare: Inline Defense against CVE-2026-21858
By Advay Inabathini
Security Engineering - Research
March 30, 2026
CVE-2026-21858 (aptly dubbed “Ni8mare”) is a critical vulnerability affecting n8n, a widely deployed workflow automation platform increasingly used to build agentic AI pipelines. It weaponizes a simple arbitrary file read flaw into full, unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE)
AI Thought Leadership
Securing Enterprise GenAI: From Visibility to Control with Versa Unified SASE
By Dhiraj Sehgal
Senior Director, Product Marketing
March 27, 2026
Generative AI is rapidly becoming embedded in enterprise workflows. Developers use it for code generation, analysts rely on it for research, and business teams leverage it for content creation and productivity. While the efficiency gains are significant, generative AI also introduces a new class of security risks that traditional security architectures were never designed to address.
Product & Engineering
Securing the Modern Browser: How Versa Remote Browser Isolation Protects an AI-Driven Workforce
By Anusha Vaidyanathan
Sr. Director, Product Management
March 26, 2026
Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) is a critical defense against zero-day threats, data loss, and unmanaged device risk. Learn how Versa RBI integrates natively with Unified SASE to secure the browser across your enterprise.
Company Updates
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.
Company Updates
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.
AI Thought Leadership
Part 5 — Securing Tool Access: MCP Server and MCP Gateway (The “Hands” Control Point)
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
March 18, 2026
Most AI incidents don’t start with “bad answers.” They start with “the AI took an action it shouldn’t have.”
That is why tool access matters as much as model access.
AI Thought Leadership
Part 4. Securing Model Access: Model Gateway and LLM Proxy (The “Brain” Control Point)
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
March 11, 2026
Parts 1, Part 2, Part 3 focused on visibility, policy, and inspection. Now we are moving into infrastructure. Once AI is in production, model calls become critical traffic. If those calls bypass governance, you lose policy enforcement, visibility, cost control, and consistent inspection. A Model Gateway solves that by acting as the front door for model access. 1) What a Model Gateway is (plain English) A Model Gateway is the “front door” for model traffic. Instead of every team calling model vendors directly, all model requests go through one controlled layer. A Model Gateway can: If a model is the…
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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.