Posts tagged ‘Zero Trust’

Why Enterprises Are Finally Ripping and Replacing Their Legacy SD-WAN—and Embracing Versa

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By Rajesh Kari
Director, Product Marketing
September 10, 2025

For a long time, most enterprises treated deployment of SD-WAN as a replacement to their legacy routers in order to enable traffic engineering on multiple WAN links. They were still forced to manage point products like WAN optimizers, firewalls and legacy switches in addition to SD-WAN, hoping to deliver better connectivity and performance, without the pain of replacing them with a unified solution. Industry reports show that this was the norm across organizations – a phased transition instead of bold replacement.

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.

The Rise of Slopsquatting: A New Software Supply Chain Threat 

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By Rahul Mehta
Product Marketing Analyst
June 12, 2025

As organizations increasingly embrace AI-powered coding tools to accelerate development and reduce engineering overhead, a new threat is emerging at the intersection of generative AI and open-source software (OSS): slopsquatting.

2025 Verizon DBIR Inside: Cybersecurity Trends from 12,000+ Data Breaches

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By Sambuj Dhara
Product Analyst
June 9, 2025

Explore the 2025 Verizon DBIR with insights from 12,000+ breaches, highlighting ransomware trends, third-party risks, and BYOD vulnerabilities.

How to Secure Private Applications with a Visibility-First ZTNA Approach

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By Dhiraj Sehgal
Senior Director, Product Marketing
April 10, 2025

Versa VSPA delivers a visibility-first ZTNA model that prevents lateral movement, enforces identity-aware segmentation, and ensures compliance across your internal environments. With integrated security and single-pass enforcement, VSPA transforms private access into a fully governed, observable, and secure service. 

Does Identity Security Play a Role in SASE?

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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.

Addressing the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications

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By Rahul Mehta
Product Marketing Analyst
March 5, 2025

OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model (LLM) Applications, highlighting critical security vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and system prompt leakage. It emphasizes the need for proactive security measures, including Zero Trust principles, access controls, and continuous monitoring to protect AI-driven applications from emerging threats.

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.

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.

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…


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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.