Posts tagged ‘SASE’

Enterprise Networking in 2025: Gartner’s Strategic Roadmap & Trends

Sambuj Dhara
By Sambuj Dhara
Product Analyst
April 22, 2025

This blog summarizes the key takeaways from the report to help IT and network leaders understand the challenges ahead and where to focus as they modernize their infrastructure. It’s meant to help IT and network teams cut through the noise, pinpoint where their current approach may fall short, and prioritize the areas that will have the biggest impact on performance, security, and scalability.

Does Identity Security Play a Role in SASE?

Sambuj Dhara
By Sambuj Dhara
Product Analyst
March 27, 2025

Security and networking teams increasingly face security challenges when securing hybrid, on-prem and cloud environments, making it essential to integrate identity-first security controls in their SASE deployments as the gatekeeper. This blog highlights simple tenets observed across our customers ranging from large enterprises to small companies.

Sovereign SASE – What’s It All About?

Anuj Dutia
By Anuj Dutia
VP, Global Solutions Strategy
February 26, 2025

Versa announced last week the general availability of Versa Sovereign SASE – it’s the culmination of work done with early adopters over the past two years, including already-up-and-running deployments by organizations in the defense, financial services, maritime, energy, and retail industries. This also includes several service providers who’ve announced their own SASE offerings riding on a Versa Sovereign SASE implementation – like T-Mobile SASE, Tata Communications Hosted SASE, Lumen SASE, and Crown Castle SASE.

VersaONE – The Future is in Networks that Protect Themselves

Dan Maier
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.

Versa Achieves Exceptional Results in CyberRatings.org SSE Threat Protection and ZTNA Tests 

Dan Maier
By Dan Maier
Chief Marketing Officer, Versa Networks
October 24, 2024

In the crowded landscape of cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE), relying on vendor claims of performance and security can often lead to disappointment. Increasingly, enterprises are seeking actual test results to validate the solutions they are considering.

Initial Thoughts on Gartner’s New SD-WAN Magic Quadrant and Capabilities Analysis

Dan Maier
By Dan Maier
Chief Marketing Officer, Versa Networks
October 7, 2024

The industry news of the day is that Gartner simultaneously published the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN along with its more granular 2024 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for SD-WAN companion report ranking for specific use cases.

Protect & Reduce Attack Surface at the Network Edge

Brad LaPorte
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…

Top 10 Signs You Need a New SSE Solution

Dan Maier
By Dan Maier
Chief Marketing Officer, Versa Networks
June 7, 2024

In today’s hyper-connected digital landscape, enterprises need to have a robust and cost-effective Security Service Edge (SSE) solution to combat increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and to support digital transformation.

Zero Trust Networking – Part 2

Kelly Ahuja
By Kelly Ahuja
CEO, Versa Networks
October 26, 2023

The future will rely on an authentically Unified Zero Trust Networking platform – a singular, integrated platform meticulously crafted to seamlessly converges networking and security. What must Zero Trust Networking deliver?

The Need for Zero Trust Networking – Part 1

Kelly Ahuja
By Kelly Ahuja
CEO, Versa Networks
October 18, 2023

This article is structured as a two-part blog series. The first part explores the evolving digital landscape. We’ll discuss the limitations of traditional security and networking models in the face of a hybrid environment that seamlessly interconnects WAN, LAN, Cloud, and Data Center.   The second part introduces the concept of Zero Trust Networking – an approach to address the nuanced challenges of modern enterprises by seamlessly integrating security and networking components across WAN, LAN, Cloud, and Data Center.  The Need for Zero Trust Networking Digital transformation and an increased cyber threat landscape is rapidly evolving the needs of a cloud…


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Gartner Research Report

2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms

Versa has for the third consecutive year been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms and is one of 11 vendors included in this year's report.