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
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AI-Powered SASE: Transforming Threat Detection and Response with VersaAI
By Dhiraj Sehgal
Senior Director, Product Marketing
May 14, 2025
Secure your enterprise with AI-powered Versa SASE that boosts threat detection and response with real-time analytics, behavioral insights, and intelligent security automation for today’s digital landscape.
Industry Insights
Enterprise Networking in 2025: Gartner’s Strategic Roadmap & Trends
By Sambuj Dhara
Product Analyst
April 22, 2025
This blog summarizes the key takeaways from the report to help IT and network leaders understand the challenges ahead and where to focus as they modernize their infrastructure. It’s meant to help IT and network teams cut through the noise, pinpoint where their current approach may fall short, and prioritize the areas that will have the biggest impact on performance, security, and scalability.
Industry Insights
Six ways agentic AI will transform networking and security
By Kevin Sheu
VP of Product Marketing
March 23, 2025
Agentic AI network security transforms threat detection, Zero Trust enforcement, and policy management with autonomous agents that accelerate response times. Learn how.
Industry Insights
Shadow AI and data leakage: How to secure generative AI at work
By Rahul Mehta
Product Marketing Analyst
March 16, 2025
Shadow AI data leakage threatens enterprises as 56% of employees use GenAI without oversight. Learn how to secure generative AI with policy and controls.
Industry Insights
Addressing the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
By Rahul Mehta
Product Marketing Analyst
March 5, 2025
OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model (LLM) Applications, highlighting critical security vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and system prompt leakage. It emphasizes the need for proactive security measures, including Zero Trust principles, access controls, and continuous monitoring to protect AI-driven applications from emerging threats.
Company Updates
VersaONE – The Future is in Networks that Protect Themselves
By Dan Maier
Chief Marketing Officer, Versa Networks
November 14, 2024
Today, Versa is announcing the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform. VersaONE enables organizations to create self-protecting networks that radically simplify and automate their network and security infrastructure. Powered by AI, the platform delivers converged SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, and SD-LAN solutions that securely connect all users, devices, workloads, and networks through a unified platform.
Industry Insights
ISACA Survey Points to Growing Threats and Lack of Automation
By Kevin Sheu
VP of Product Marketing
October 14, 2024
This latest survey is more confirmation that an oft-mentioned reality continues to be true – that the nature of threats keeps advancing and organizations frequently find themselves falling further and further behind. Far and away, the top reason given for increased stress isn’t low budgets or lack of training or failure of company leadership to prioritize security – even though these are among the reasons cited – it’s the “threat landscape is increasingly complex,” listed by 81 percent of respondents, nearly double the next-closest response.
Industry Insights
Protect & Reduce Attack Surface at the Network Edge
By Brad LaPorte
Strategic Advisor
September 12, 2024
Understanding the cyber attack surface Historically, the “attack surface” was limited to well-known points of external exposure—the traditional perimeter of websites, external IP addresses, and endpoints. Our cyber attack surface has expanded dramatically over the past five years, now encompassing our cloud estate, millions of devices at the edge, and mobile and remote workers, in addition to our internet-facing infrastructure. This expansion of the definition to include cloud, end-user, and internal assets has been driven by the increasing sophistication of cyber attacks. The table below breaks down today’s complex attack surface into several categories, based on a framework presented by…
Company Updates
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…
Company Updates
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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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.