Versa Unified SASE is a modern, converged security and networking service built on the VersaONE platform that frees you to bring modern network and security controls to outdated architectures while not impacting plant floor operations. The growth in IoT devices and the digitization of OT machinery in factories, warehouses, and across the supply chain, along with the application of machine learning, automation, and predictive analytics, have promised a new era of next-gen manufacturing. But it’s clear that to really get it done requires next-gen IT infrastructure that is agile, cost-effective, and secure. Benefits of Versa’s approach include:
Versa Unified SASE’s dynamic SD-WAN and SD-LAN capabilities allow you to aggregate connections of any type, such as MPLS, broadband, wireless 4G, and LTE. By intelligently leveraging all available transport options, the network becomes agile enough to scale on demand while optimizing for least-cost routing, significantly reducing more expensive MPLS or satellite bandwidth costs. Doing so ensures continuous network availability and uninterrupted access to bandwidth-intensive AI and AR applications.
The VersaONE architecture embeds application intelligence that enables deep packet inspection by the network and intelligently prioritizes application traffic based on business-intent policies, automatically directing traffic across the ideal transport route. This helps ensure mission-critical applications are always running smoothly, even during network outages, further improving application reliability. As a bonus, IT gets to spend less time dealing with network complexities and has more time to focus on managing business applications and services.
The Versa platform’s flexibility allows it to conform to traditional manufacturing architectures such as ISA 99/IEC 62443 and follows a standards-based approach to simplify your implementation and maintenance and enhance security while providing consistency and interoperability. The Versa Operating System, which is the foundation for VersaONE, has itself been independently certified for high-assurance deployments, having passed the stringent Common Criteria (CC) Certification process against the EAL4+ baseline.
Centralized management and control combine with simple, template-driven workflows to provide deep, granular visibility into applications, devices, and users, automate tedious, error-prone configuration, and detect and fix any anomalies immediately. As a bonus, zero-touch deployment means that administrators can quickly and securely deploy patches and policy updates, while strictly adhering to regulatory mandates across all locations from a single, central orchestrator.
You can extend Zero Trust Network Access to devices with unified, granular least-privilege access policies applied regardless of network or location. Versa automatically discovers and fingerprints your IoT and OT devices where applicable, maps their traffic, and makes dynamic security and networking decisions at a per-device level, even for those without an agent or on-device application, based on continuous risk profiling and applied policy.
Don’t worry – the cost, time, and complexity of ripping out existing network infrastructure is not necessary. A SASE overlay can be cost-effective and deployed quickly, working in conjunction with your legacy infrastructure. The VersaONE platform also gives you the option to implement specific services and service components of SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, and SD-LAN as you require, while setting you up to potentially converge siloed IT, IoT and OT networks and both simplify and upgrade networking and security across your field networks, core network, multi-cloud network, and mobile and remote users.
The Versa SASE service integrates end-to-end multi-layer security with best-of-breed features such as next-gen firewall, encryption, and contextual awareness, while pushing security to the edge. These advanced security capabilities allow manufacturers to interconnect air-gapped facilities to each other and to cloud infrastructure while eliminating the need for individual data centers at each site, improving security and scalability.
Versa’s dynamic segmentation capabilities also enable organizations to securely consolidate disparate physical environments into multiple logically segmented networks on a single appliance, or even a single network, using granular policies for microsegmentation. In doing so, they can classify applications based on business intent and isolate sensitive data traffic from regular corporate traffic for better security and regulatory compliance.
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