Posts tagged ‘COVID-19’

SASE-Delivered Cyber-Security for Resellers

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By Versa Staff
Versa Networks
January 15, 2021

As a reseller you have the broadest visibility of what is truly happening out there: across multiple industries; different size customers; companies of different profiles. Your expert reputation is well established and you deploy robust solutions with confidence. Yet many in your shoes have been hesitant to offer security in their portfolios—historically much-too-complex.

SASE-Delivered Cyber-Security for Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

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By Versa Staff
Versa Networks
January 14, 2021

SMEs are the most cost-conscious of organizations; there’s no money for large IT teams, nor for stacks of single-purpose boxes per location: it adds up quickly with more locations. Direct Internet Access (DIA) has been a life-saver (read: cost-saver). Employees using their own tablets, smartphones, and laptops has phenomenally brought down user device costs and headaches—employees even upgrade and refresh their devices themselves! Cloud applications are another absolution: no more servers, OS upgrades, boxes, more boxes, slow performance—with SaaS you pay-as-you-go and instantly scale up/down.

Protecting Work-From-Home Users for Today and Beyond

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By Monnia Deng
Group Manager, Product Marketing
December 16, 2020

For business continuity, enabling WFH pervasively is essential. Businesses looking to enable WFH must allow home workers to use their personal networks and devices to access business critical applications that may be hosted at a corporate datacenter or in the cloud. A robust, scalable, and secure work-from-home (WFH) solution ensures organizations can thrive regardless of any global, regional, or local events such as the pandemic of 2020. However, giving employees both the flexibility to work in the office or at home comes with its unique set of challenges.

Top 5 Business Transformation Trends Driving Network Transformation

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By Versa Staff
Versa Networks
May 21, 2020

The digital transformation has made the network indispensable. As your network goes, so your business goes. Everything is connected: static and mobile devices all communicate via the network. Extraordinary statistics suggest 51% of CxOs don’t know what their industry might look like in 2023; that there might be a 50% turnover in the S&P over the next five years. Agility is survival. Traditional hub & spoke networks were designed for client-server access to centralized information by a set of known, stationary, IT-controlled endpoints. Today’s business does not operate that way. The number and types of devices have exploded, they—and their…

COVID-19 Ransomware Analysis

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By Winny Thomas
Principal Security Architect
April 9, 2020

Versa Security Lab recently analyzed couple of malware samples which arrives on a computer through phishing emails containing documents with embedded link which eventually leads to the download of the malware. Some of these may arrive through websites pretending to provide information on the recent Corona virus outbreak. The past few months have seen several malicious webservers and domains being set up, purportedly serving information on the Covid-19 virus outbreak. Most of these sites are hosts to ransomware and other malware types. In this blog we are going to look at one sample which encrypts files contents and updates the…

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Gartner Research Report

2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for SD-WAN

For the fifth year in a row, Versa has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN. We are one of only three recognized vendors to be in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reports for SD-WAN, Single-Vendor SASE, and Security Service Edge.