Posts tagged ‘Threat Detection’

Securing IoT and OT Devices with Versa Next-Generation Firewall

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By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
July 8, 2025

How to secure IoT and OT environments with Versa’s Next-Gen Firewall — offering Zero Trust access, device fingerprinting, micro-segmentation, and threat prevention.

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.

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

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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.

Building Context with UEBA relationship graphs, using GraphML

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By Sridhar Iyer

May 2, 2024

Versa UEBA incorporates GraphML to generate insights and detect anomalies in user relationship graphs. Anomaly and behavior detections are just the first step. We then need to quickly pivot into building the forensics to inform response and remediation. This can involve determining the origination point of a malicious activity or an attack and building the scope and scale of a potential breach.

Modernizing Retail with Secure SD-WAN

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By Leo Jiao
Sr. Systems Engineer. Versa Networks
November 2, 2023

In recent years we’ve witnessed transformative changes in both technology and the retail industry. The retail world has seen tremendous ups and downs over the past several years thanks to the impact of COVID. In addition to challenges such as store closures, reduced foot traffic, and supply chain problems, digital disruptions include an increasing shift to e-commerce and new types of cyber threats that have dramatically changed how people shop and how retail businesses should operate. In the technology world, numerous stunning innovations such as AI/ML-assisted network operations and threat detection are making people’s jaws drop because of their capabilities…

A Pragmatic View of Breaking and Inspecting SSL

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By Mark Harman
Sr. Systems Engineer, Versa Networks
October 11, 2023

SSL Break and Inspect (B&I) has always been a point of contention in the security world. On the one hand, we have the network security teams saying, “We should inspect everything on our network and not allow anything that we cannot inspect.”

Versa Networks Enterprise Firewall Sets the Industry Standard for Security Effectiveness, Performance and Value

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By Dan Maier
Chief Marketing Officer, Versa Networks
May 16, 2023

In a world where cybersecurity is of paramount importance, choosing the right enterprise firewall can make or break a company’s security posture. Versa Networks, the pioneer of single-vendor Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions, has recently emerged as a leading vendor in the highly competitive firewall market.

Defense Against Web Threats in the Modern Era

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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.

Detect Zero-Day Exploits in Microsoft’s Exchange Server

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By Versa Threat Research Lab
Versa Networks
March 9, 2021

Last week, Microsoft released an important blog that details that details how HAFNIUM, a state-sponsored threat actor operating out of China, exploited Microsoft Exchange Servers with zero-day exploits along with other code execution vulnerabilities in the Sharepoint software. Microsoft advises that these patches are only intended to be a temporary fix. Customers are still required to update their software to the latest version and apply any relevant security patches to their server.


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Gartner Research Report

2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for SD-WAN

For the fifth year in a row, Versa has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN. We are one of only three recognized vendors to be in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reports for SD-WAN, Single-Vendor SASE, and Security Service Edge.