Posts tagged ‘Zero Trust’
AI Sovereignty Starts with Sovereign SASE
Gartner’s Predicts 2026: AI Sovereignty report makes a case that should reshape how every CIO thinks about AI: sovereignty is not just a capability, it is becoming a deciding factor in how nations and enterprises build, deploy, and govern AI. Gartner projects that by 2027, 35% of countries will be locked into region-specific AI platforms built on proprietary, in-country data, up from roughly 5% today. That is a structural change in how the global AI market works, with direct implications for any organization operating across borders. Gartner’s answer is a sovereign-by-design architecture that maps workloads to jurisdictions and uses controlled…
The Security Gaps Hiding in Fragmented SASE Architectures and How VersaONE Closes Them
Fragmented, multi-vendor SASE architectures share five recurring weaknesses: exposed VPN appliances, an encrypted-traffic blind spot, licensed-but-unconfigured controls, inconsistent malicious-IP blocking, and ungoverned AI and MCP endpoints. Backed by current industry data, this post walks through each gap and shows how a converged, single-pass architecture built on VersaONE closes them as one policy posture rather than five separate projects.
Zero Trust Network Isolation for Agentic AI: Lessons from Anthropic’s Sandbox Incidents
Anthropic’s alignment assessment describes four incidents in which Claude models left their test environments and gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems. This post explains why prompt instructions failed to contain them and how zero trust network isolation supports agentic AI security by closing egress paths.
The AI-Era Network Is Here. How Enterprises Make It Consumable Is the Next Chapter.
Recent industry commentary observes that carriers have built the AI-era network but have not yet figured out how to explain its value. Learn how Versa makes the AI-era network platform actually consumable – for enterprises building their own outcomes, and delivering differentiated services to their customers.
The Foundation of Pervasive Security: Building AI-Resilient, Unified Defenses
Pervasive Security replaces fragmented tools with one AI-resilient architecture built on three pillars. Here’s how they work together.
How Versa Sovereign SASE Answers the EU Technological Sovereignty Package
Versa Sovereign SASE answers the EU Technological Sovereignty Package by localizing all four operational planes, data, control, management, and jurisdiction, under EU law, rather than stopping at data residency.
Federal Zero Trust Maturity: Aligning Mission, Security, and Cost
Federal zero trust maturity now depends on more than security controls. Agencies must also cut the cost of fragmented network and security stacks and keep citizen services running. This post explains how device consolidation, a software-defined WAN, and careful sequencing let agencies meet all three goals together.
The Flat Network Is the Last Unsegmented Zone in the Enterprise
Zero Trust programs have largely completed two phases, remote access and the WAN edge, while the physical campus network remains outside continuous identity-based validation. This post examines why flat and coarsely segmented LANs persist, why VLANs and port authentication do not constitute a segmentation strategy, and how Versa Secure SD-LAN makes segmentation a property of the fabric by enforcing Zero Trust and microsegmentation at the LAN edge.
The Essential Planes Every Sovereign SASE Vendor Must Support
“Sovereign SASE” has become a loosely used claim. This post breaks genuine sovereignty into four architectural planes — data, control, management, and jurisdiction — and shows how Versa Sovereign SASE, built on the VersaONE platform, is architected to satisfy all four, plus the questions that pressure-test any vendor’s claim.
The Trust Layer: How Versa Delivers AI-Driven NetOps with Explainability and Zero Trust Guardrails
AI in NetOps is transitioning from passive alerting to active decision support and execution, but adoption depends on whether engineers can trust it. Learn how Versa’s single-OS platform, unified data lake, Versa Verbo Copilot, and patent-pending Zero Trust MCP Server deliver AI-driven NetOps with explainability and governance built in.
Company Updates
9 Easy Steps to Follow When Migrating from a Legacy VPN to a ZTNA Solution
By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
July 26, 2023
When working with the executive leadership of Versa’s customers, I am often asked after they have selected their ZTNA solution of choice, what’s suggestions might I have planning and deploying the ZTNA solution. My response is always the same: it is not a cookie cutter design because every organization is incredibly unique.
Industry Insights
How To Create a More Secure World: replacing inadequate VPNs with ZTNA Follow-up
By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
July 21, 2023
The global pandemic and rise in remote work has forced organizations to review how they provide remote workers access to IT resources. Existing solutions based on virtual private networks (VPN) can’t keep pace with the scale of remote users and often lead to a poor end-user experience.
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Zero Trust Everywhere
By Dan Maier
Chief Marketing Officer, Versa Networks
April 19, 2023
Zero Trust is widely considered to be the future of security, but today it’s only used to protect remote workers. As hybrid work grows and people return to the office, many users and security teams are asking if they can use Zero Trust for their branch offices and campus sites as well.
Industry Insights
A Quick Look at How To Secure The Manufacturing Plant Floor
By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
April 18, 2023
Learn about the fears and solutions around the manufacturing plant floor also known as non-carpeted areas and how the Versa Networks Zero Trust Everywhere solution can meet requirements and strengthen the security footprint for the operational technology systems.
Industry Insights
IoT Security Anyone????
By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
January 5, 2023
A breakdown of what IoT really is, and how Versa Networks can help to implement best practices to safeguard your organization from the growing threat of IoT incidents.
Industry Insights
Is Your ZTNA Solution Really Zero Trust?
By Avik Bose
Principal Systems Engineer, Versa Networks
December 5, 2022
This blog tries to explain the essential capabilities that a customer must look at before selecting a ZTNA solution which truly adheres to Zero Trust Principles.
Industry Insights
SWG vs FWaaS: Key Differences and Use Cases
By Avik Bose
Principal Systems Engineer, Versa Networks
October 17, 2022
This blog post tries to explain the differences between SWG and FWaaS and the different use cases which they address in a SSE framework.
Company Updates
Ransomware and What It Could Cost You
By Jon Taylor
Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks
October 17, 2022
Read more to find out more about the actual cost of ransomware.
Industry Insights
Gartner® Gives Strategic Roadmap to Achieving SASE for 2022 and Beyond
By Monnia Deng
Group Manager, Product Marketing
August 1, 2022
The report breaks down the most critical steps to achieve when planning for SASE implementation that dispels any notion that SASE can be broken down into just components. A cohesive strategy requires equal consideration of the branch transformation and the security maturation of ubiquitous protection of users, devices, and applications.
Industry Insights
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA): Secure, Controlled, and Deployed from Everywhere
By The Versa Team
SASE Technical Professionals
April 3, 2022
Many large enterprises consider their internal networks safe—protected by perimeter firewalls and VPN solutions—and that security threats are primarily present external to their networks. In reality, the enterprise network attack surface has experienced a multifold expansion brought about by trends in work-from-anywhere, Direct Internet Access (DIA), application-and-data migration into the cloud, BYOD, IoT, and increasingly sophisticated hacker attacks with lateral movement. Corporate “internal” networks are often as insecure as “external” networks, if you can even still find the borders between these. ZTNA is a modern network architecture that brings back the security essential to your corporate network. The approach is…
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AI Sovereignty Starts with Sovereign SASE
By Matthew BrooksOctober 27, 2026
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2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms
Versa has for the fourth consecutive year been recognized in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms1 and is one of only 12 vendors that met the criteria for inclusion based on the analysts’ evaluation of the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform.