Versa featured as a Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for SSE

Versa earns Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for SSE, with 84% of customers awarding 5-star reviews based on real-world deployment experience.

Michelle Viray
Director of Customer Advocacy
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  • Published: December 11, 2025
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Summary

Recognized as a Customers' Choice vendor in Gartner Peer Insights "Voice of the Customer" for Security Service Edge, Versa earned 5-star reviews from 84% of its customers. This distinction reflects real-world satisfaction across adoption, security outcomes, and operational experience, validating Versa SSE as a trusted solution for modern enterprises.

  • Versa SSE achieved Customers' Choice status, the highest recognition a vendor can receive in Gartner Peer Insights.
  • 84% of Versa's customers submitted 5-star reviews, reflecting strong satisfaction with security, performance, and user experience.
  • Versa SSE integrates NGFW, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA capabilities into a single cloud-native architecture.
  • Versa is currently one of only three vendors recognized as a leader across Gartner's Magic Quadrants for SSE, SASE, and SD-WAN.
  • Customers highlight improved remote worker security, reduced threat exposure, and responsive feature development as key differentiators.

At Versa, we take pride in knowing we’ve truly made a difference for our customers. We are deeply invested in products that solve real problems, not just features on a roadmap, but solutions that help real people do their best work.

When customers take the time to share how Versa has helped them transform their organizations, it reminds us why we do what we do.

These stories aren’t just validation. They are the fuel that drives us to keep advocating for our customers, to keep listening, and to push ourselves to be the partners our customers deserve.

For the team at Versa, being customer champions isn’t just a tagline, it is the promise we make to our customers every single day.

Today, I am thrilled to announce that Versa is recognized as a Customers’ Choice vendor in Gartner Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Security Service Edge (SSE) Report.

The Customers’ Choice distinction isn’t just another recognition. It is the highest recognition a vendor can receive on Gartner Peer Insights™, reflecting customer satisfaction across the areas of interest, adoption, and real-world experience.

Receiving this recognition from Gartner Peer Insights™ is a milestone we’re incredibly proud of, but what truly stands out is this: 84% of our customers shared a 5-star review for Versa (As of August 2025 out of 88 reviews). We believe that kind of endorsement comes from showing up for our customers and doing everything we can to help them succeed.

Comprehensive SSE that customers trust and recommend

Honest feedback from customers who use our solution every single day is the ultimate validation. When customers are willing to recommend what they believe in, it speaks volumes.

That’s exactly what we’re seeing with Versa’s world-class SSE solution, which is designed to protect users as they connect to apps and the internet, without compromising on performance or user experience.

Versa Security Service Edge delivers a comprehensive suite of security functions from a single, unified platform, including advanced integrated capabilities like:

  • Next Generation Firewall
  • Secure Web Gateway
  • Cloud Access Security Broker
  • Zero Trust Network Access

This comprehensive approach ensures robust protection against sophisticated cyberattacks while optimizing performance so our customers can work seamlessly.

Powered by our cloud-native, multi-tenant VersaONE platform, Versa is one of only three industry leaders recognized in all three of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for SSE, SASE, and SD-WAN.

We’re honored by this recognition, and what resonates with us is hearing directly from the people whose day-to-day work we support, our customers. The Voice of the Customer for SSE report offers cybersecurity leaders valuable insights drawn from real ratings and reviews shared by their peers on Gartner Peer Insights™, making it an essential resource for anyone evaluating SSE solutions.

In their own words

Here’s what customers are saying in their Gartner Peer Insights™ reviews of Versa SSE:

“Comprehensive and Scalable SSE Solution with Room for Growth”

“It has been a good experience overall. We were able to increase user security, particularly for distant workers. Our team found it easier to monitor and apply security. We also saw fewer security risks and better protection against online threats. It fits well with our plan to move more work to cloud and support remote work securely.”

“Versa Security Service Edge: An Integral Solution for Modern Networks”

“Versa Security Service Edge provides a comprehensive, user-friendly solution with robust security and performance for modern network environments.”

“Highly Available and Feature-Rich Products from a Customer-Centric Company”

“Very good experience, company reflects to customer needs, customizable, feature requests are evaluated and implemented in time, generally very good availability and feature-rich products.”

We invite you to read our SSE customer reviews on Gartner Peer Insights™: Versa Security Service Edge Reviews.

Putting customers first, always

Versa’s inclusion as a Gartner Peer Insights™ Customer Choice for SSE reflects our unwavering dedication to security, innovation, and customer satisfaction. As enterprises continue to navigate ever-changing complexities, Versa remains steadfast in delivering secure, purpose-built solutions that meet our customers’ evolving needs.

We believe that this report, and our recognition in it, reinforces what’s always been true: we are champions for our customers. That commitment doesn’t stop here. We continue building solutions which help our customers thrive, now and for years to come.

Gartner, Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Security Service Edge, Peer Contributors, 30 October 2025.

Gartner and Peer Insights™ are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Michelle Viray

By Michelle Viray

Director of Customer Advocacy

Michelle Viray leads customer advocacy at Versa, building the programs behind reference stories and peer-review recognition like Versa's Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for SSE. She has two decades in customer marketing, with prior roles at Coupa, Sophos, and McAfee, and a degree from Santa Clara University.

FAQs

The Customers' Choice distinction is the highest recognition a vendor can receive on Gartner Peer Insights. It reflects verified customer satisfaction across areas of interest, adoption, and real-world experience, based on ratings and reviews submitted by enterprise end users rather than analyst opinion. This makes it a peer-driven validation of solution quality.

Versa Security Service Edge delivers Next Generation Firewall, Secure Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker, and Zero Trust Network Access from a single unified platform. Unlike deploying separate point products, this consolidated approach reduces operational complexity, provides consistent policy enforcement, and optimizes performance while protecting users connecting to applications and the internet.

Versa SSE is powered by the cloud-native, multi-tenant VersaONE platform, which integrates advanced security functions including NGFW, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA into one architecture. This unified design enables centralized monitoring, consistent security policy application, and streamlined management, allowing enterprises to protect distributed users without sacrificing network performance or user experience.

Enterprises using Versa SSE report increased user security for remote workers, reduced security risks, and stronger protection against online threats. Customers on Gartner Peer Insights highlight easier security monitoring and policy enforcement, with 84% of reviewers giving five-star ratings as of August 2025 out of 88 reviews, reflecting high real-world satisfaction.

Enterprises evaluating SSE solutions should assess platform consolidation, examining whether NGFW, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA are natively integrated rather than loosely bundled. Decision-makers should also review peer feedback through resources like the Gartner Peer Insights "Voice of the Customer" report and verify vendor recognition across adjacent categories such as SASE and SD-WAN.

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