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Versa Unified SASE Platform
Versa simplifies how enterprises protect and connect their users, devices and sites to workloads and applications – anywhere, anytime.
A Unified SASE Platform to Power your Digital Transformation
Organizations are increasingly turning to SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) to support a distributed hybrid workforce, increased use of cloud services, and a heightened threat environment.
The Versa Unified SASE platform delivers converged network security with software-defined WAN and LAN capabilities to support these dynamic, secure connectivity needs. Powered by AI/ML and built on the Versa Operating System (VOS), Versa’s single stack software solution dramatically simplifies SASE deployment and operations, and the single pass scanning architecture delivers unparalleled performance and network and security visibility.
Today, the Versa Unified SASE platform powers some of the world’s largest and most complex enterprises, delivering resilient high performance networking with enhanced security, increased visibility and control, improved user experience, and lower cost and complexity.
Why is a unified platform important?
Many of the SASE solutions available from vendors in the market today have been stitched together using a mix of disparate or mismatched components and services from acquired companies or partners. While cobbled together solutions might offer temporary fixes or appear cost-effective initially, they often lead to increased complexity, costs, and risks in the long term.
Adopting a unified and well-integrated approach to security and networking is generally more beneficial for organizations. The future will rely on an authentically unified platform – a singular, integrated platform meticulously crafted to seamlessly interconnect networking and security.
This shift from “Bolt-On” to “Unified” is transformative. It simplifies management, consolidates costs, and enhances your security posture. With this evolution, user experiences are streamlined, and businesses are equipped with a forward-looking, adaptable foundation to drive their business.
Zero Trust Networking – Part 1 Zero Trust Networking – Part 2Platform Modules
Unified Management
and Operations
AI/ML
Open Architecture
Multi-tenancy
SASE Fabric
Unified Management and Operations to Reduce
Administrative Cost and Complexity
Versa Unified SASE Platform consolidates multiple security and networking products into a single solution. It begins with a unified software stack integrated at the operating system level rather than bolted together with APIs.
This fully integrated approach enables:
- Single-pass parallel processing As a packet traverses the network, each packet is processed only once. This means all networking and security functions are performed only once, significantly reducing processing overhead, service inconsistency, and attack surface.
- Unified data lake and analytics to provide context-rich visibility to support AIOps and threat detection – without having to ingest and normalize data from separate systems. This sets the foundation for consistent, rich context that powers analytics and AI/ML.
- Unified SASE Client that integrates SASE connectivity and security – bringing together resilient and dynamic Best Path Selection with security policies based on Zero Trust and continuously assessed device posture.
- Unified policy repository consistent policy application that follows the user and device wherever they are. Configure once and apply consistently across your infrastructure.
- Single pane of glass Unified management simplifies the management of multiple products under a single management console.
AI/ML Suite to Improve Operational Efficiency and Accelerate Threat Detection and Response
The Versa Unified SASE Platform integrates a panoramic data set from across the Versa product suite into a unified data lake. VersaAI™ applies a broad set of machine learning, predictive and artificial intelligence models to this data to extract operational and security insights.
VersaAI™ delivers these threat protection, data protection, and operational insights across the Versa product portfolio.
Open Architecture
The platform seamlessly integrates with your existing infrastructure. With native integrations and open APIs at its core, Versa works with an ecosystem of 3rd party tools that range from Identity providers, SIEMs, NetDevOps, cloud infrastructure and 3rd party VNFs. These integrations extend the platform’s use cases and enable you to build an architecture that avoids vendor lock-in.
Simplify the deployment and management of complex multi-tenant services from a single instance
Multi-tenancy is a crucial feature for a Unified SASE solution as it enables one deployment to serve multiple customers or business units securely and efficiently from a single instance of the software. Everyday examples include:
- Mergers and Acquisitions. Combining the IT infrastructures of merging companies can be a complex and expensive process. Consolidate multiple environments into a single platform, reducing infrastructure and operational costs.
- Supporting Business Units. Enable management separation between business units while centralizing core infrastructure and application management.
- Multiple networks at a single branch. Maintain logical separation of networks, ensuring that each network operates independently in a cost-effective, scalable, and efficient management experience.
- Separate IT from OT networks. Share the same physical infrastructure while logically separating IT and OT networks. This segmentation is vital for preventing unauthorized access between IT and OT environments and protecting sensitive OT systems.
Each tenant benefits from individualized virtual routing, VLANs, and service chains, maintaining full independence across control, data, and management planes.
Alternatives bolt-on solutions would require multiple deployments for each customer, business unit or tenant. Versa’s comprehensive multi-tenant capabilities simplifies the deployment and management of complex multi-tenant services.
SASE fabric for an Assured User Experience
An assured user-to-application experience with an adaptive, best path selection capability. It securely connects the user or device based on multiple end-to-end attributes (e.g. jitter, MOS score, latency) for all available paths including your own Internet connection.
Each user, device or location is concurrently connected to multiple gateways. Any failure or degradation will result in a seamless failover to the alternate gateway – fully transparent to the user.
Flexible deployment architecture to fit into any environment
Versa SASE services are deployed on-premises in branch offices, work-at-home, regional offices, headquarters, data centers, and cloud. Versa’s management platform can be deployed in a public cloud, private cloud or on-premises.
- Users and Devices. Remote or hybrid users have a client-based or clientless option for an “always on” connection to workloads in private or public clouds. Users are connected to gateways based on proximity, load, and other real-time variables. Using the client unlocks device posture information that can be used for policy enforcement.
- Branch or corporate offices use a Versa Secure SD-WAN device or a third-party SD-WAN, router, firewall to enable users/devices to access workloads in private or public cloud or connect to other corporate sites. Using Versa SD-WAN as an on-ramp uniquely delivers end-to-end observability and control for user/device-to-app performance and security.
- IaaS and SaaS Apps. Dynamic path selection for SaaS and IaaS with optimized access and express routes to hyperscalers.
- Data Center. With Versa’s Secure SD-NIC, embed security enforcement directly into the server to not only enable but also inline traffic inspection.
- Open Hardware architecture. Versa is fundamentally different than proprietary and expensive network software and hardware. Using software to define the network introduces an open and automated approach that enhances reliability, grants granular control, and provides flexibility. Versa supports the widest set of deployment options in the industry and is designed to run directly on bare metal Versa CSG appliances with industry leading features and competitive price points. Versa also runs on certified and preconfigured white box platforms, hypervisor VMs (VMware ESXi, KVM, Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V), and IaaS platforms (Amazon, Google and Microsoft).
Versa Unified SASE Product Families
Security Service Edge (SSE)
Versa Security Service Edge products secure access to the web, cloud services and private applications.
Secure Networking
Versa Secure Networking products offer secure, scalable, and reliable enterprise-wide networking across WANs and LANs.