Enterprise-Class Security and
SD-WAN with Versa

Versa delivers a fully unified SASE platform with networking and security built into a single operating system. This provides key advantages in these areas:

• Integration and ease-of-use: Versa’s single-console solution provides simpler management and consistent policy enforcement across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. Cisco’s SASE offering is composed of multiple separate products that require more integration and can introduce management complexity.
• Performance: Versa optimizes each connection for lower latency while Cisco’s multiple acquired products can create performance overhead due to traffic traversing different services.
• Security: Enterprise security testing shows Versa greatly outperforms Cisco with a Cloud Network Firewall security effectiveness of 99.9% over Cisco’s 53.5%. (Source: Cyberratings 2025 Cloud Network Firewall Report)

Versa is significantly simpler to manage at scale due to its unified console. Organizations can manage SD-WAN, SSE, NGFW, and all security features across all locations (branches, datacenters, cloud locations, etc.) with Versa’s single-interface console.
Cisco can require up to four consoles depending on the product being managed.

Versa consistently scores highly in Cyberratings.org’s comparative security tests while Cisco often receives a “Caution” score. (Check out these examples for Enterprise Firewalls, SSE, and Cloud Network Firewall.) This is due in part to Versa’s tightly integrated security platform over Cisco’s fragmented solution.

Versa provides better integration due to its natively unified routing, switching (via SD-LAN), SD-WAN, and security. In contrast, Cisco’s solution typically involves stitching together several modular products (e.g., Meraki, Viptela, Umbrella), which can add complexity as well as multiple console views.