Posts tagged ‘Firewall’
Versa Zero Trust: From Network Trust to Application Trust
Zero Trust has become a foundational concept in enterprise security, but many implementations focus on only one part of the problem: application access. Zero Trust must be enforced at multiple layers of the network.
From Pathway to Mastery: Elevating Your SSE Adoption Game
Take your Security Service Edge (SSE) strategy to the next level with “From Pathway to Mastery”, the follow-up to “Choose Your Own SSE Adoption Pathway”. This ebook explores advanced strategies for scaling and optimizing key SSE technologies like SWG, CASB, ZTNA, NGFW, and DLP. Learn how to implement the Crawl-Walk-Run framework, future-proof your deployments with AI-driven insights, and align your security posture with evolving business needs. Start your journey to SSE mastery today.
Achieve Zero Blind Spots with Versa’s Complete Branch Security that Protects Guest Wi-Fi and Beyond
Branches are surging back in prominence as hubs for users, applications, and a rapidly expanding IoT ecosystem. In this new branch paradigm, Guest Wi-Fi is no longer a convenience. It’s a non-negotiable requirement across retail, healthcare, hospitality, financial services, and much more. Unfortunately, this shift introduces a new mix of unpredictable user behavior, diverse applications, and thousands of devices to the branch infrastructure. This dramatically increases bandwidth demands and expands the attack surface where guest devices can bring malicious files, launch DNS-based threats, enable data exfiltration, or open compliance and privacy gaps. Industry research shows 70% of performance degradation and…
Delivering on Gartner’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall Framework
Hybrid work, hybrid clouds, and distributed enterprise architectures have made one thing clear: security can no longer be built around a single perimeter. Today’s networks span branches, multi-cloud workloads, data centers, and thousands of IoT and remote endpoints. Yet many organizations still operate siloed firewall architectures that weren’t designed for this reality — leaving them with fragmented visibility and inconsistent policy control.
NSS Labs Test Results: Versa Is Firewall Performance Leader and One of Only Three Recommended
In case you missed it, CyberRatings.org – affiliated with NSS Labs, which is their testing arm – published their independent test report on Wednesday comparing seven of the leading enterprise firewalls in the market across 55 different security and performance use cases.
Securing OT with Versa NGFW: A Practical Guide for Network Security Leaders
Operational Technology (OT) is no longer an air-gapped island. Manufacturing and distribution sites now connect Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs), and sensors to cloud analytics and remote vendors, which expands both capability and the attack surface. In this context, Versa’s Next‑Gen Firewall (NGFW), delivered as part of its Universal SASE platform, provides OT‑aware visibility, segmentation, continuous inspection, and zero-trust controls to protect these devices.
Securing IoT and OT Devices with Versa Next-Generation Firewall
How to secure IoT and OT environments with Versa’s Next-Gen Firewall — offering Zero Trust access, device fingerprinting, micro-segmentation, and threat prevention.
How Versa Secures Unstructured Data Against AI-Driven Risk
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.
Ditch the Glitches, Embrace Exceptional Voice and Video Experience with Versa Secure SD-WAN
Are your real-time application performance needs met? These applications needs special attention that only a robust SD-WAN solution can deliver to always ensure an exceptional user experience. Learn how Versa Secure SD-WAN can help you achieve this goal seamlessly.
Next-Gen Firewall Redefined: Versa NGFW Takes the Lead
Secure hybrid networks with Versa NGFW—top-rated for security, cost, and performance. See why it beats Fortinet and other tier-1 firewall vendors
Research Lab
The NSA’s Top 25 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities
By Winny Thomas
Principal Security Architect
December 23, 2020
The National Security Agency published a list of 25 CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) that were most exploited by threat actors in recent times. Some of these CVE’s were used to deliver malicious software that allowed monitoring remote networks, maintaining continued access to remote networks, and, in some cases, using these CVEs to pivot to other systems within the internal network. For example, CVE-2019-11510 was used to gain access to sensitive VPN information of user accounts and then use the credentials to deliver ransomware like Sodinokibi. Similarly, CVE-2019-0803 was used to establish a backdoor to gain and maintain access to…
Industry Insights
Edge Networks Provide the Glue for the Business and its Branches
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
July 23, 2020
A key component of classic go-to-market strategies is to evaluate the requirements to compete in modern business by how we align our pricing models. We conduct competitive analysis to define product features and functions and build in unique differentiation to one-up our rivals. To support our products, we hire and train staff to ensure customer service and satisfaction ratings are the best in the industry. This is the digital age, where everyone, on some level, lives and works in a fully virtualized world. Unless we pay cash (remember cash), we can’t buy anything without a secure network. For contemporary times,…
Customers & Partners
SD-WAN Vendor Success Criteria Vary by Lenses
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
July 16, 2020
Several analyst firms have reported recently about the state of the SD-WAN market, and not surprisingly, the market sizing is definitely due to inclusion of both hardware and software, and in Cisco’s case, contributions from Meraki. That’s the conclusion of AvidThink analyst Roy Chua, who believes that there could be a $500 million differential between pure SD-WAN software revenue and everything else deployed in the branch including hardware, circuits and wireless access only. Given that Versa is one of the few if not only pure-play SD-WAN vendors that from a revenue recognition standpoint is software only, devising a methodology that…
Product & Engineering
Secure SD-WAN architecture overview
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
May 6, 2020
Discover how secure SD-WAN architecture consolidates routing, security, and optimization into one platform – eliminating complexity and attack surfaces. Learn why.
Research Lab
Internal Network Exposure via UPnP NAT Injection
By Winny Thomas
Principal Security Architect
December 5, 2018
Universal Plug-n-Play – (UPnP) is a suite of protocols that enables a device to discover other devices on a network, configure itself to operate in the network, and advertise its services. This allows a device to locate routers, printers and other resources on a network. UPnP runs on UDP port 1900 and communicates using SOAP messages over HTTP. The actual configuration and management interface are implemented using a SOAP-based HTTP service running over a dynamically allocated TCP port. The UPnP protocol allows management of aspects of a device’s operation to extend support by the protocol implementation on the device and its…
Product & Engineering
Securing the Branch Network with SD-Security and NFV
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
February 23, 2016
Industry analysts have noted that branch offices are increasingly becoming a targeted point of entry into corporate networks, with attack volume growing more than 500 percent over the last three years. This is due in large part to three major trends/issues: the increasing adoption of cloud- vs. data center-hosted apps, the adding of Internet circuits as additional (and lower cost) connectivity for branch offices, and the largely unchanged and static architecture of branch office networks. The latter point is compounded by the need to deploy a multitude of siloed security appliances and/or software packages to enforce any kind of defense-in-depth…
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