eBooks

SASE For Dummies

eBook By Kumar Mehta & Apurva Mehta

Want to learn about secure access service edge (SASE) but not sure where to start? Download Versa’s free SASE for Dummies e-book and start learning today!

Reducing the Total Cost of Ownership with a Unified SASE Platform

eBook

This eBook presents a TCO framework, identifying key tangible and intangible cost drivers, and providing a clear breakdown of benefits and real-world impact.

Simple Do’s and Don’ts to consider when transitioning from a legacy VPN solution to a remote ZTNA solution

Global Digital Transformation Survey

This guide provides notables items to consider when transitioning from a legacy VPN solution to a remote ZTNA solution.

Do's & Don'ts of IoT Security

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a hyper-connected landscape has introduced significant security challenges. Find out key do’s and don’ts to strengthen IoT defenses against cyber attacks and other vulnerabilities in this eBook.

Choose Your Own SSE Adoption Pathway

An SSE solution doesn't necessarily need to be implemented all at once, it can also be adopted in phases in alignment with your specific priorities and resources – this guide discusses options and considerations in sequencing your security platform implementation. Read Part 2 here.

From Pathway to Mastery: Elevating Your SSE Adoption Game

In this follow-up ebook to Choose Your Own SSE Adoption Pathway, explore advanced strategies necessary to scale and optimize five core SSE technologies. Get practical steps on how to implement and integrate SWG, CASB, ZTNA, NGFW, and DLP in your organization effectively.

Why Organizations Choose Versa for Sovereign SASE

Sovereign SASE's benefits range from customization to using existing customer-owned infrastructure. See why customers choose Versa Sovereign SASE to meet their unique goals.

SASE on SIM: Simplifying Secure Device Connectivity

Discover how Versa SASE on SIM delivers clientless, always-on security for IoT, mobile, and SIM-enabled devices. This ebook explores challenges, benefits, and real-world use cases that simplify secure connectivity at scale.

Experiences and Attitudes Towards a Post-COVID Workforce

Global Digital Transformation Survey

The research conducted across 500 security and IT decision makers around the world reveals experiences and attitudes towards digital transformation, WFH, and move to the cloud post-pandemic.

The Intelligent Edge: The Future of Branch & Campus in the AI Era

White Paper

AI is redefining enterprise infrastructure. The Intelligent Edge provides the foundation for this transformation, enabling organizations to adopt AI securely and efficiently.

Secure Every Connection: How Versa ZTNA Replaces VPNs to Protect Users, Data, and Applications Everywhere

White Paper

The cybersecurity landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. Ransomware attacks are now weaponized to exploit the weakest link in enterprise access models: the VPN. Originally designed to connect remote users to corporate networks, VPNs were never intended to enforce Zero Trust principles or protect against modern lateral movement tactics.

Versa Networks NIS2 Compliance

White Paper

The Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS2) is a critical regulatory framework established and adopted by the European Union in November 2022 to enhance cybersecurity across member states.

Beyond the Buzz: Why the Coffee Shop Approach Isn’t Enough for Modern Branches

White Paper

Branch networks today must handle growing volumes of IoT devices, bandwidth-heavy collaboration apps, and critical on-prem systems. They need performance, visibility, and Zero Trust enforcement across both WAN and LAN (wired, Wirelss and IoT). Treating every branch like a coffee shop may work for remote users—but it’s not enough for secure, high-performing, modern branches.

Deploying Reliable Optical Networks

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Versa Networks Optical Module Qualification Guidelines

The Journey to a Self-Protecting Network

White Paper

Over $14 trillion of collective investment in digital transformation over the past 10 years has led to the particular set of security and networking challenges facing organizations today – and has set the stage for the self-protecting networks of the future.

Cloud Access Security Broker

White Paper

Learn how you can control access to cloud applications and data with security policies governing which users and devices have access to cloud applications and information stored in the cloud.

Security Service Edge

White Paper

Organizations face significant challenges when securing their digital transformation initiatives, with traditional perimeter boundaries dissolving due to cloud, IoT, and hybrid work, leaving a network edge that is now everywhere- wherever data, users, and devices exist.

SSE Buyer's Guide

White Paper

As organizations navigate today’s evolving digital landscape, securing their networks and data has become an increasingly complex undertaking. Traditional security approaches are proving themselves outdated in a new era of expanding cloud services, IoT devices, flexible work, and sophisticated threats.

Unleash the Full Power of SASE-on-SIM

White Paper

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, enterprise mobility has become an indispensable tool for organizations to stay competitive and efficient.

Secure Internet Access

White Paper

Understand how you can deliver Secure Internet Access to all web traffic going in and out of your network while ensuring a consistent user experience.

How Adopting A Zero Trust Architecture Can Help Protect Against Digital Supply Chain Management Attacks

White Paper

Supply Chain Attack is “A cyber-attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less secure elements in the supply chain.”

How SD-WANs are Revolutionizing Satellite Connectivity

White Paper

Satellite networks provide ideal use cases for secure SD-WAN deployments. Route performance monitoring combined with traffic steering policies allows users to always take advantage of the best available path for their traffic types, while the ability to bundle security features with SD-WAN devices and uCPE enables a reduction in the overall hardware footprint in deployments where space and power may be at a premium.

Modernizing the Corporate Campus Network Architecture

White Paper

Legacy campus network architectures are no longer adequate to meet the needs of the modern digital enterprise with hybrid users and devices connecting to workloads alternately in the data center, private clouds, and public clouds.

Zero Trust Security

White Paper

Zero Trust is a new approach to security that requires organizations to fundamentally shift the way they approach identity and access.

Moving from a Traditional Branch to a Virtualized Branch

White Paper

Moving from a traditional enterprise branch boundary to a virtualized branch boundary involves consolidating network, computing, storage, security, and application capabilities.

Work-From-Home with Versa Analytics

White Paper

Understanding your Work-From-Home users and their application usage, traffic patterns, network issues, and security with Versa Analytics.

The Evolution of the Enterprise Access Edge

White Paper

The enterprise access edge has been dominated by chassis models and stacking technologies for 20 years, and is now evolving to a more flexible SDN spine-leaf architecture.

The Role of a Secure SD-WAN in Multi-Cloud Transformation

White Paper

A multi-cloud transformed architecture simplifies operations, alleviates network latency, and mitigates IT issues. Secure SD-WAN ensures a unified security policy across all platforms, clouds, and devices.

Reducing Header Overhead with Tunnel-less SD-WAN

White Paper

The transmission overhead that SD-WAN tunnel encapsulation and encryption adds to IP packets may be noticeable on networks that are bandwidth-constrained or that utilize external encryption methods, an issue that can be addressed using “tunnel-less SD-WAN."

SD-WAN Brownfield Deployment

White Paper

There are multiple considerations to be made by a network architect before transitioning from a legacy network to SD-WAN.

SD-WAN and Secure Service Edge for DoD and Ultra-Secure Deployments

White Paper

This white paper describes how the Versa SD-WAN and SASE solutions are very well suited for satellite, maritime, and federal networks that operate in adverse and DDIL conditions and which often leverage NSA’s High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryption (HAIPE) or CSfC-based architectures.

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Why Legacy VPNs are Obsolete: The Future of Secure Private Access

White Paper

Prior to the pandemic, the dominant remote networking model revolved around Virtual Private Network (VPN) appliances that had a fixed capacity and were implemented in enterprise data centers.

SD-WAN Foundations for a Successful SASE Implementation

White Paper by Futuriom

Scott Raynovich of Futuriom explains how a tightly coupled SASE and SD-WAN strategy provides an end-to-end, software-based networking platform that provides security and visibility of all applications on the network.

Benchmarking Versa Secure SD-WAN on Dell EMC Servers

White Paper

Versa and Intel performance testing on the Versa Secure SD-WAN using three Dell EMC Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) 4600 servers.

Data Loss Prevention

White Paper

Explore how DLP can protect data at rest and in motion by using textual pattern matching, access permissions, etc. DLP allows for the classification of data into the appropriate categories and ensures that all data comply with compliance regulations.

Segmentation & Multi-tenancy: A Primer

White Paper

VLANs became the de facto standard for segmentation, but only provide minimal security and separation within the average enterprise network. There are many options for implementing segmentation and multitenancy in a modern enterprise network design.