Posts tagged ‘SASE’
What Enterprises Really Want from SASE Consolidation
A new survey by technology research firm Futuriom on the evolution of SASE platforms shows that 92% of enterprises are pursuing SASE consolidation, and that security visibility, operational simplicity, and control matter more to them than cost savings. This post walks through the survey’s findings on current operational pain points to be addressed by SASE, consolidation drivers, migration concerns, and the rise of digital sovereignty as a top priority.
How Versa Sovereign SASE Answers the EU Technological Sovereignty Package
Versa Sovereign SASE answers the EU Technological Sovereignty Package by localizing all four operational planes, data, control, management, and jurisdiction, under EU law, rather than stopping at data residency.
Federal Zero Trust Maturity: Aligning Mission, Security, and Cost
Federal zero trust maturity now depends on more than security controls. Agencies must also cut the cost of fragmented network and security stacks and keep citizen services running. This post explains how device consolidation, a software-defined WAN, and careful sequencing let agencies meet all three goals together.
The Essential Planes Every Sovereign SASE Vendor Must Support
“Sovereign SASE” has become a loosely used claim. This post breaks genuine sovereignty into four architectural planes — data, control, management, and jurisdiction — and shows how Versa Sovereign SASE, built on the VersaONE platform, is architected to satisfy all four, plus the questions that pressure-test any vendor’s claim.
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.
Europe’s Data Sovereignty Reckoning: Why Sovereign SASE Matters
Data sovereignty in Europe now extends beyond where data is stored to who controls the infrastructure that accesses, inspects, logs and governs it. The blog explains how the CLOUD Act and geopolitics expose gaps in residency-only strategies, why sovereign cloud alone is insufficient, and how Versa Sovereign SASE extends sovereignty across the full access and operational 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.
New Gartner SASE Platforms Reports are Out – Versa Featured Again
Versa has been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms for the fourth consecutive year and is one of twelve vendors that met the criteria for inclusion in this year’s report.
Product & Engineering
Versa Titan: Versa SASE for Lean IT
By Robert McBride
Sales Engineer
March 25, 2021
Versa Titan drives unique and differentiated value for Lean IT by: delivering SASE services in a single unified solution, combing full stack security with industry-leading SD-WAN, making it the easiest solution to deploy, configure, and manage SASE services. By simplifying IT, IT teams can focus on streamlining operations, achieving their organization’s mission, and driving business agility.
Customers & Partners
5 Real Deployments of SASE
By Amelie Sutsakhan
Product Marketing Manager, Versa Networks
February 17, 2021
Contrary to how often SASE is presented as only a cloud-delivered solution, SASE is most commonly deployed as a blended implementation. As seen with the customer examples above, a number of them decided to deploy via the cloud and on-premises while others leveraged a 100% cloud model or a 100% on-premise model.
Industry Insights
Is SASE the Modern Network?
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
February 2, 2021
Deploying point solutions to address the growing needs of a remote workforce and the challenges of an evolving threat landscape is straining the Enterprise bank. As organizations struggle to balance network requirements and IT costs, SASE, with its cloud-native architecture and software-centric approach, is emerging as an effective solution to slash the unpredictable and unsustainable cost spikes.
Product & Engineering
Protecting Work-From-Home Users for Today and Beyond
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.
Customers & Partners
SD-WAN Vendor Success Criteria Vary by Lenses
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
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…
Industry Insights
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
Top 5 Business Transformation Trends Driving Network Transformation
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
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…
Customers & Partners
My WFH Story with Versa Secure SD-WAN (Part 3)
By Robert McBride
Sales Engineer
April 13, 2020
Part 3 of a 3 part series (read Part 1 and Part 2) So, with the default configuration with minor LAN and NGFW customizations, what was I capable of using now at my home office? Always on VPN to corporate whether I was wired or wireless at my house Multi-link WAN with LTE providing me backup services to have 99.99% uptime for all my devices Prioritize my voice, video conferencing, O365, SFDC, Virtualization applications over Netflix, Hulu, PlayStation Network, Google Play Music, Spotify and other social media-oriented applications Secured my Internet with not only a NGFW but URL reputation and…
Customers & Partners
My WFH Story with Versa Secure SD-WAN (Part 2)
By Robert McBride
Sales Engineer
April 9, 2020
Part 2 of a 3 part series (read part 1 and part 3) Now, my journey. I requested a Versa Cloud Services Gateway appliance, specifically the CSG750-WLA (that’s our 750 series appliance with an integrated Wi-Fi AP (Access Point) and an integrated cellular modem for LTE). I submitted a request to our Versa Titan operations team [sent an internal PO] to create my organization and provide me with licenses for 4 sites – each license was the Versa Titan CSG750-Advanced Security software license. The Advanced security license provides routing, SD-WAN, NGFW, URL Filtering, AV and NG-IPS [for those who are…
Customers & Partners
My WFH Story with Versa Secure SD-WAN (Part 1)
By Robert McBride
Sales Engineer
April 8, 2020
Part 1 of a 3 part series (read part 2 and part 3) Throughout my entire career of 20+ years I predominately have been a work-from-home employee through various roles I have held. As part of #WFH the need for secure and either on-demand or constant connectivity to corporate resources is a hard requirement in order to do my job effectively. Over the last 20+ years how, where and what I need access to have changed quite dramatically. In summary a lot of these resources are now off-net [ e.g. email, SharePoint, Skype, CRM, PRM, collaboration and communication applications [conferencing…
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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.