Posts tagged ‘Security’
Industry Insights
Defense Against Web Threats in the Modern Era
By Amelie Sutsakhan
Product Marketing Manager, Versa Networks
April 20, 2021
Cyberattacks have been ranked as the fastest growing crime in the US. Secure Web Gateway (SWG), one of the five components of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is key to protecting users from web-based threats while applying and enforcing security policies consistently.
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
Best Practices for the Enterprise (Part 3) Multi-tiered Architecture
By Neil Danilowicz
Principal Architect
November 6, 2019
Welcome to the Third installment of the Enterprise Best Practices Blog. My name is Neil Danilowicz, Principal Architect for Versa Networks. This week we will focus on why the Enterprise should require a secure multi-tiered architecture for their SD-WAN solution.So why is a secure multi-tiered architecture a requirement for Enterprise deployment of SD-WAN? Historically, Enterprises would contract with a service provider to purchase private circuits (MPLS, PIP, or dedicated TDM circuits) to provide secure private connectivity between their branches and data centers. If an Enterprise required access to the Internet or remote networks, demilitarized zones (DMZs) were established to vet…
Industry Insights
Enterprises Need to Keep Edge Networks Safe
By Versa Staff
Versa Networks
October 6, 2019
With enterprises investing heavily to transform themselves digitally, the threat environment has in many respects intensified and diversified. Enterprises pursuing a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud strategy, or relying on a software-as-a-service model to give remote workers access to critical applications, perhaps via a mobile device, will be potentially exposing themselves to new threat vectors that must be built into an already long list of security considerations for WAN edge optimization. As enterprises look for ways to accelerate their digital transformation journeys and to achieve greater business agility, they must match that by transforming their wide-area network to be more software-driven….
Industry Insights
Enterprise Best Practices
By Neil Danilowicz
Principal Architect
September 4, 2019
Hello, and welcome to the second installment of the Enterprise Best Practices Blog. My name is Neil Danilowicz, Principal Architect for Versa Networks. This week I would like to focus on Keys – their importance to SD-Wan and why an Enterprise should be concerned about the keys. As we all know, every Enterprise has both public and private information. And it is the duty of the Enterprise to protect private information, be it intellectual property (IP), financial information, customer subscription information, payment history, or other information that must be protected due to regulations (both industry standard and governmental). Protecting information…
Product & Engineering
Security is the Great Differentiator to a Successful SD-WAN Solution
By Versa Staff
Versa Networks
July 22, 2019
NSS Labs recently conducted its 2019 security-enabled SD-WAN 2.0 group test. Versa is one of only two SD-WAN vendors, out of 10 tested, that received the “Recommended” rating. The test findings accentuated Versa Networks’ ability to deliver an exceptional user experience and low total cost of ownership with security enabled. Leveraging unbiased data to establish verifiable vendor differentiation is critical to the NSS Labs test criteria. Within the crowded SD-WAN vendor landscape, to affirm their vendor selection, customers put a premium on real-world and impartial testing, based on empirical evidence. NSS Labs structured the security-enabled SD-WAN test according to three…
Industry Insights
Mitigating Sophisticated Security Threats at the WAN Edge
By Versa Staff
Versa Networks
March 20, 2019
According to several industry surveys, it takes the typical enterprise over 200 days to discover a security breach, such as undisclosed web vulnerabilities or spearfishing for email credentials, according to the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview from IBM Security and Ponemon Institute. The study calculated that the global average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million, up 6.4% from last year. The average cost, globally, for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information is also up from last year, landing at $148 per record or a 4.8% increase from 2017. Although the…
Industry Insights
New Report Reveals Top 10 Cryptomining Malware for 2018
By Versa Staff
Versa Networks
December 17, 2018
Disruptive technologies, like blockchain, usher in new market opportunities, like cryptomining. Whenever there is a growing trend, with the potential for financial gain, cyber criminals will invariably find ways to disrupt and distort these markets. Cryptomining is highly compute-intensive, using computer resources, such as CPU cycles, to mine “cryptocurrency”. Miners are paid for solving CPU intensive cryptographic challenges that validate each block of a transaction added to a cryptocurrency’s blockchain. They are paid a certain amount of cryptocurrency into their cryptocurrency wallet as commission for validating a transaction. . Anywhere there is a profit to be made, capable people will…
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…
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