With the growth in IoT devices and the digitization of OT networks across the production, distribution, and supply chains, along with the application of machine learning, automation, and predictive analytics, we are seeing the potential for a new era of next-gen operations for the oil and gas industry. But it’s clear that achieving that promise requires the implementation of equally next-gen IT infrastructure that is agile, cost-effective, and secure. Versa Unified SASE is a converged intelligent networking and full-stack security service that runs on the VersaONE platform and frees oil and gas enterprises to bring modern network and security controls to legacy architectures while avoiding impact to ongoing operations.
Versa Unified SASE’s dynamic SD-WAN and SD-LAN capabilities allow intelligent link bonding across diverse transport systems, integrating them into a seamless network that aggregates and optimizes the routing over connections of any type, from satellite and wireless LTE/4G to broadband and MPLS. By intelligently leveraging all available transport options for mobile and fixed use cases, including hybrid satellite, the network scales on demand while optimizing for least-cost routing.
You can extend Zero Trust Network Access beyond users to devices, with granular least-privilege access policies applied equally regardless of network or location. Versa automatically discovers and fingerprints both 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 risk profiling and applied policy.
The VersaONE platform 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.
Versa’s underlying operating system natively supports full separation of the management, data, and control plane at cloud headend, data center, branch, and edge device locations. This enables Versa to achieve genuine multi-tenancy by logically separating traffic, creating tenants within the platform that individually process traffic and generate logs without sharing data between tenants. Each tenant can have multiple virtual routing and forwarding tables (VRFs), VLANs, and service chains.
Centralized management and control combine with simple, template-driven workflows to provide deep, granular visibility into applications, devices, and users, automate the task of 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.
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 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 to both simplify and upgrade networking and security across your field networks, core network, multi-cloud network, and mobile and remote users.
Versa Unified SASE’s dynamic SD-WAN and SD-LAN capabilities allow intelligent link bonding across diverse transport systems, integrating them into a seamless network that aggregates and optimizes the routing over connections of any type, from satellite and wireless LTE/4G to broadband and MPLS. By intelligently leveraging all available transport options for mobile and fixed use cases, including hybrid satellite, the network scales on demand while optimizing for least-cost routing.
You can extend Zero Trust Network Access beyond users to devices, with granular least-privilege access policies applied equally regardless of network or location. Versa automatically discovers and fingerprints both 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 risk profiling and applied policy.
The VersaONE platform 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.
Versa’s underlying operating system natively supports full separation of the management, data, and control plane at cloud headend, data center, branch, and edge device locations. This enables Versa to achieve genuine multi-tenancy by logically separating traffic, creating tenants within the platform that individually process traffic and generate logs without sharing data between tenants. Each tenant can have multiple virtual routing and forwarding tables (VRFs), VLANs, and service chains.
Centralized management and control combine with simple, template-driven workflows to provide deep, granular visibility into applications, devices, and users, automate the task of 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.
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 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 to both simplify and upgrade networking and security across your field networks, core network, multi-cloud network, and mobile and remote users.
Versa’s Universal SASE integrates end-to-end multi-layer security with best-of-breed features such as next-gen firewall, advanced threat protection with multi-sandboxing, encryption, contextual awareness, and more, while pushing security to the edge. These advanced security capabilities allow manufacturers to interconnect once air gapped facilities to each other and to cloud infrastructures 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.
Operations in remote or rural areas have always presented a challenge for legacy WAN and security architectures. Given that production facilities are frequently geographically spread out and dependent on ERP, CADD, and back-office systems, providing critical application access to avoid downtime and related productivity (and revenue) loss has always been a challenge with applications hosted in data centers with legacy architectures.
Digital transformation via advanced technologies promised the oil & gas industry greater visibility, critical insights, and better control in order to adapt and thrive in a highly volatile, competitive market, but legacy WANs have proven to be a bottleneck. MPLS private circuits are expensive AND fail to meet the needs of bandwidth-hungry applications. Their hub-and-spoke architecture translates to inefficient data center backhauling, which delays application access, slows performance, and negatively affects user productivity.
Traditional security architectures have further exacerbated the problem, underscoring the benefits of Versa’s converged platform to reduce point product sprawl, unify fragmented operations, and simplify complex lifecycle management.
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