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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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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Securing Generative AI Tools
By Sridhar Iyer
Director, Machine Learning & AI
August 21, 2023
Harness ChatGPT for productivity and secure against data leakage, credential abuse and privacy risks.
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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.