Posts tagged ‘Security’

Shadow AI & Data Leakage: How to Secure Generative AI at Work

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By Rahul Mehta
Product Marketing Analyst
March 17, 2025

Shadow AI is exposing businesses to security risks and data leaks. Learn how to secure Generative AI usage with governance, AI firewalls, and compliance controls.

How NGFW Fits into Your Zero Trust Strategy

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By Brad LaPorte

February 5, 2025

Zero Trust requires organizations to assume that threats can originate from anywhere—both inside and outside the network. This approach emphasizes strict identity verification and continuous monitoring to protect sensitive resources. Advanced security tools, such as Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), play a pivotal role in implementing this strategy. These technologies provide enhanced visibility and granular access control to meet the demands of hybrid and cloud-first environments.

IoT: New Horizons, New Risks 

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By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
January 7, 2025

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers exciting new opportunities for growth and innovation. From fostering collaboration between organizations to enabling entirely new services, IoT is at the heart of many technological revolutions.  

Data Protection and Security with Versa’s Endpoint DLP Solution 

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By Anusha Vaidyanathan
Sr. Director, Product Management
December 10, 2024

Data Protection and Security with Versa’s Endpoint DLP Solution  In a hyper-digital and remote-working world, protecting sensitive data has become more critical than ever. Endpoint and network Data Loss Prevention (DLP) work together to provide data visibility and control, safeguarding businesses against potential breaches and compliance risks. For this blog, we’ll focus on the value of endpoint DLP and share some common use cases.   Why Endpoint DLP Matters  Endpoint DLP, along with network DLP, is an essential component for comprehensive data protection. In modern organizations, data continuously resides on and moves through endpoint devices like laptops, workstations, and mobile phones….

Versa SD-WAN and Microsoft Entra Combine for End-to-End Networking and Security

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By Maurice Landrum
Solution Architect
November 19, 2024

Versa and Microsoft have partnered to integrate identity-centric internet access security with intelligent network connectivity. With sophisticated cyberattacks increasing year over year, organizations are scrambling to upgrade their access security and complement it with intelligent and secure transport at the WAN for improved end-to-end protection and performance.

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

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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.

ISACA Survey Points to Growing Threats and Lack of Automation 

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By Kevin Sheu
VP of Product Marketing
October 14, 2024

This latest survey is more confirmation that an oft-mentioned reality continues to be true – that the nature of threats keeps advancing and organizations frequently find themselves falling further and further behind. Far and away, the top reason given for increased stress isn’t low budgets or lack of training or failure of company leadership to prioritize security – even though these are among the reasons cited – it’s the “threat landscape is increasingly complex,” listed by 81 percent of respondents, nearly double the next-closest response.

How to Protect and Reduce Your Attack Surface at the Edge

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By Brad LaPorte

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…

Comprehensive Threat Defense: How Versa Uses the MITRE ATT&CK Framework for Threat Detection and Response

Anusha Vaidyanathan
By Anusha Vaidyanathan
Sr. Director, Product Management
September 12, 2024

Versa Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution designed to protect organizations from sophisticated threats across various vectors. Versa’s ATP detection reports are mapped directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, providing security teams a fingerprint of attacks, which can then be used for attribution to known adversaries, incident response, simulation attacks, and other security measures.

Securing GenAI Usage with Versa’s GenAI Firewall

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By Anusha Vaidyanathan
Sr. Director, Product Management
May 6, 2024

Versa GenAI Firewall safeguards sensitive data from being uploaded into Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) while limiting shadow use cases of GenAI. It manages, monitors, and reports how your organization uses GenAI – including assessments on the riskiness of apps, controlling access, and preventing unauthorized data movement. Securing Generative AI Applications: Beyond LLMs While ensuring security for large language models (LLMs) is necessary to facilitate the adoption of GenAI applications within organizations, it is equally crucial to address broader concerns related to generative AI. Let’s delve into additional considerations: User-to-Application Access Control: Context: Generative AI tools are often accessed by…


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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.