Stop overpaying for Firewall Performance You're Not Getting
Combine advanced threat protection, deep application visibility, and comprehensive data security in a unified NGFW solution designed to scale with your business needs.
Highest performance. Highest security. Lowest cost.
Security effectiveness · CyberRatings Q1 2025
99.90%
100% in routing & access control, TLS/SSL, evasion prevention, and stability
Rated throughput · CyberRatings Q3 2025 Enterprise
7,626
Mbps — over 2x faster than competing solutions in independent testing
False positive accuracy · CyberRatings Q3 2025 Enterprise
99.63%
Highest false positive accuracy among all Recommended products — fewer alerts that waste your team’s time
Source: CyberRatings.org Q1 2025 Cloud Network Firewall report; Q3 2025 Enterprise Firewall report.
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Your current firewall wasn't built for
what you're defending against today
Legacy firewalls were designed for a perimeter that no longer exists. Three forces are forcing enterprises to act.
Forced hardware refreshes with sky-high renewal costs
Major NGFW vendors are pushing end-of-life hardware cycles and steep license increases. Enterprises are paying more at renewal for the same — or degraded — capability.
Ransomware groups are actively targeting exposed firewall concentrators
Internet-facing firewall appliances are now primary ransomware entry points. Repeated high-profile CVEs on major NGFW vendors have led to significant breaches in 2024 and 2025 — many from unpatched, internet-exposed devices.
AI-accelerated attacks are outrunning signature-based detection
Attackers now use AI to mutate exploits and generate novel evasions faster than signature databases update. A firewall that relies on static signatures is structurally behind.
Versa NGFW vs Legacy Firewall vs
Cloud-Only NGFW
See how Versa stacks up against legacy on-premises firewalls and cloud-only NGFW point solutions — across the dimensions that matter most.
| Category | Legacy Firewall | Cloud-Only NGFW | ✔ Versa NGFW (Unified SASE) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | Hardware-limited throughput; expensive appliance refreshes as traffic scales. | Cloud-delivered but constrained by PoP coverage; latency spikes during peak or in underserved regions. | 7,626 Mbps rated throughput — over 2x faster than competing solutions. Highest performance on majority of real-world single application flows. |
| Security effectiveness | Signature-based detection misses zero-days; limited inline TLS/SSL inspection at scale. | Variable effectiveness across vendors; limited inline inspection depth beyond basic access control. | 99.90% security effectiveness. 100% in routing & access control, TLS/SSL decryption, evasion prevention, and stability (CyberRatings 2025). |
| Management overhead | Manual patching, separate consoles per appliance, no unified visibility across locations. | Cloud console for cloud traffic only; separate policy stack from on-prem creates management silos. | Single policy engine across NGFW, SD-WAN, CASB, SSE, and ZTNA. Zero-touch provisioning. AI-driven automation and diagnostics. |
| Deployment flexibility | On-premises hardware only; expensive and complex to extend to cloud or remote branches. | Cloud-native but no on-premises or hybrid support; can't address air-gapped or distributed environments. | Cloud, virtual, and on-premises — same single OS and policy engine across all deployment modes. No rip-and-replace required. |
| Cost of ownership | Hardware refresh cycles, separate licenses for IDS/IPS, URL filtering, ATP — costs compound fast. | Subscription-based but separate SKUs per security layer inflate TCO over time. | Unified SASE stack eliminates separate licenses for IDS/IPS, URL filtering, and ATP. Single vendor, single platform, single renewal cycle. |
| Path to SASE | No native SASE path; requires a separate vendor for full rip-and-replace to modernize. | Limited SASE integration — ZTNA, SD-WAN, and CASB managed as separate products from separate vendors. | Built-in path to unified SASE — NGFW, SD-WAN, SSE, CASB, and ZTNA on one platform with one policy engine and one vendor relationship. |
Full-stack capabilities. One platform.
No point products.
Versa NGFW delivers end-to-end network security from Layer 3 packet filtering to AI-driven threat prevention — without separate tools, licenses, or management consoles.
- Stateful Firewall (Layer 3 & 4)
- Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
- Intrusion Prevention/Detection (IPS/IDS)
- Application Aware & Control
- File Reputation and Filtering
- DNS Reputation and Filtering
- URL Reputation and Filtering
- IP Reputation and Filtering
- Malware Detection
- IoT, OT and Gen AI security
- On-prem ZTNA
- Cloud Access Security Broker
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
- Remote Access ZTNA
One platform. Not another point
product to manage.
Versa NGFW is built into the VersaONE unified SASE platform. As your needs evolve,
you extend the same platform — no new vendor, no new contract, no new console.
IoT & OT Security
Fingerprint, classify, and secure IoT and OT devices with the same policy engine — no separate tool required.
Zero Trust Access
Deploy zero-trust based conditional access for users, devices, and applications — on-premises or remote.
GenAI Security
Implement security controls to mitigate risk for GenAI applications — visibility into Shadow AI and data leakage prevention.
Cloud Data & Applications
Granular access control and administration of cloud-based data and applications across your entire estate.
Stop Paying More for a
Firewall That Does Less.
See what an independently-validated, best-rated NGFW looks
like — live, tailored to your environment.
- 30-minute live walkthrough with a Versa engineer
- Tailored to your environment and use case
- No commitment required
- Response within 1 business day
