Posts tagged ‘AI Security’
From Reactive Patching to Continuous Hardening: Versa’s AI-Era Security Discipline
Versa’s secure software development practices are built for the AI era. Versa uses frontier cyber models in pre-merge security reviews, validates its software supply chain across dozens of security scanners, blocks any release with unresolved Critical or High-severity vulnerabilities, and requires engineer review of all AI-assisted code before merge.
Security Without Compromise: What the 2026 NSS Labs Cloud Network Firewall Tests Tell Us
The 2026 NSS Labs Comparative Test Report for Cloud Network Firewalls evaluated nine leading cloud-native and third-party firewalls under identical conditions, measuring security effectiveness, performance, TLS support, stability, and cost. As AI drives up encrypted traffic volumes and enables more evasive attacks, the results show that enterprises no longer have to trade protection against performance or cost. Versa NGFW earned NSS Labs’ “Recommended” rating for the second consecutive year, pairing 99.91% security effectiveness with the fastest rated throughput and the second-lowest cost per Mbps of any vendor tested.
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
AI Thought Leadership
AI-Optimized Data Centers: The Non-Negotiable Blueprint for What’s Next
By Dogu Narin
VP of Product Management, Versa Networks
November 13, 2025
AI is everywhere—here’s the blueprint to outgrow legacy data centers: GPU-dense compute, ultra-low-latency fabrics, NVMe/parallel storage, direct cloud interconnects—knit together by Versa for true edge-to-cloud assurance.
Industry Insights
When Words Become Weapons: How Versa SASE Helps Mitigate Prompt Injection
By Dhiraj Sehgal
Senior Director, Product Marketing
October 28, 2025
Introduction Prompt injection is increasingly recognized as a rising class of risk in AI systems. This is a critical threat vector in which attackers craft natural language inputs to subvert model instructions, bypass guardrails, or leak sensitive data. But before focusing on prompt injection threats let’s quickly review how AI tools present risks for a company’s unstructured data. In our blog discussing how Versa secures unstructured data against AI driven risk, we explain how unstructured data—spanning emails, documents, collaboration tools, and code repositories—creates surface area of risk with generative AI platforms and solutions. We also examine how Versa’s Unified SASE…
AI Thought Leadership
AI-Era Networking: Why Deep, Real-Time Visibility Is Now Non-Negotiable
By Rajesh Kari
Director, Product Marketing
October 9, 2025
Learn how AI is necessary to provide the deep observability and visibility into network and application performance for a exceptional user experience and zero outage branch.
AI Thought Leadership
Agentic AI in NetOps: The Next Big Leap for Network Operations
By Rajesh Kari
Director, Product Marketing
September 8, 2025
Learn how Agentic AI transforms NetOps from automation to autonomy. Discover how self-healing, AI-driven networks cut downtime, boost security, and reduce costs.
Product & Engineering
EU AI Act Specific Requirements Broken Down: How Versa Universal SASE Secures GenAI & Ensures Compliance
By Dhiraj Sehgal
Senior Director, Product Marketing
August 14, 2025
Ensure EU AI Act compliance with Versa Universal SASE. Gain visibility, prevent data leaks, and secure GenAI usage with audit-ready controls.
Industry Insights
Is Your Enterprise Network Ready for AI? Key Findings from EMA Research
By Kevin Sheu
VP of Product Marketing
August 7, 2025
Discover how enterprises are preparing their networks for AI. EMA’s research reveals critical insights on SD-WAN, SASE, security, and observability.
Company Updates, Product & Engineering
Secure client access policies with Versa MCP configuration tool
By Arun Chandar
Lead Solution Architect
August 4, 2025
Automate SAC policy creation, auditing, and optimization with MCP configuration tool and LLM-powered secure access policy automation. Learn how.
Customers & Partners, Industry Insights, Product & Engineering
How Versa Secures Unstructured Data Against AI-Driven Risk
By Dhiraj Sehgal
Senior Director, Product Marketing
June 17, 2025
The proliferation of AI and machine learning workloads has accelerated the generation and utilization of unstructured data—including emails, source code, collaboration files, logs, recordings, and internal documentation. Unlike structured data, which resides in databases, unstructured data spreads across cloud drives, SaaS applications, endpoints, and unmanaged collaboration tools.
Industry Insights
The Rise of Slopsquatting: A New Software Supply Chain Threat
By Rahul Mehta
Product Marketing Analyst
June 12, 2025
As organizations increasingly embrace AI-powered coding tools to accelerate development and reduce engineering overhead, a new threat is emerging at the intersection of generative AI and open-source software (OSS): slopsquatting.
Company Updates
Beyond automation: Three real-world use cases where MCP servers redefine SASE
By Gerardo Melesio
Systems Engineer
June 10, 2025
Discover how MCP server SASE use cases transform network operations through AI-powered troubleshooting, policy automation, and intelligent decision-making. See how.
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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.