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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Top 10 SASE Solution Requirements for Modern Security
By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
June 5, 2023
Discover the 10 critical SASE evaluation requirements for selecting a unified SASE platform that delivers security, performance, and scale. Learn what to assess.
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Digital Transformation Requires Ubiquitous Connectivity, with No Added Risk
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
July 9, 2020
Digital transformation is transcending traditional IT infrastructure, and becoming pervasive within virtually every aspect of business and our personal lives. We carry around laptops, smartphones, tablets, smart watches and other wearables. IoT devices collect data from security cameras, cars, aircraft, ships, energy systems, manufacturing plants, medical facilities, farms and ranches, and throughout our homes and business offices. Applications on all these devices collect and emit massive amounts of data. Data travel over WANs to corporate data centers, clouds, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and this is just the beginning. As digital transformation becomes even more pervasive, the digital ecosystem will become…
Industry Insights
Assessing the Impact of AI to Cloud Networking
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
July 18, 2018
Ubiquitous cloud access has become more business-critical than ever and monitoring, managing and trouble-shooting have increased in complexity. SD-WAN allows organizations to seamlessly bring together diverse circuits like MPLS, DIA Internet, broadband Internet, WiFi, satellite and any other network transport with an IP address. We can already see some of the ways in which AI can optimize WANs to improve business outcomes. For example, ubiquitous networking has become a critical layer in the network landscape to ensure reliable, cost-effective and highly scalable connectivity. The challenge is in managing the ubiquitous WAN’s real-time decision making, based on network conditions, locations and…
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The Essential Planes Every Sovereign SASE Vendor Must Support
By Anuj DutiaSeptember 17, 2026
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By Dhiraj SehgalSeptember 1, 2026
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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.