Versa Networks is turbocharging its Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform with advanced features to bolster threat detection, refine remediation, and boost data protection.
These enhancements enable security teams to manage threats more effectively and enhance their security posture in an ever-evolving and complex threat landscape.
VersaAI is an integrated suite of AI technologies incorporated into the Versa Unified SASE platform, providing insights for threat protection, data protection, and operations. Leveraging a data lake containing telemetry from various network and security infrastructure components, including the WAN edge, cloud, campus, remote locations, users, and devices, VersaAI extracts AI/ML insights that enhance the entire Versa product suite.
Kumar Mehta, Versa Founder and Chief Development Officer, commented:
Our advantage lies in the extensive unified security and networking telemetry generated by our platform over our vast SASE deployment base. This extensive telemetry data fine tunes AI models to deliver highly accurate insights to bolster security posture in real time and enable human operators to fight AI with AI.”
Versa stresses the need for AI in security as a significant inspiration for VersaAI, highlighting that CISOs, CIOs, and their understaffed teams face a harsh reality because more security tools haven’t culminated in better security. Versa argues they’re inundated with security data but struggle to find relevant insights. Traditional methods fall short against fast, complex AI-driven threats, which is where VersaAI intends to assist security teams.
More Info On The AI Features
Among VersaAI’s new capabilities are key threat detection and data protection upgrades. For example, GenAI Firewall enhances existing capabilities to mitigate shadow use cases of GenAI, thereby reducing the new attack surface and emerging risks associated with GenAI. It oversees, monitors, and provides reports on organisations’ utilisation of GenAI. Through Versa GenAI Firewall, organisations can evaluate app risks, manage access, and prevent unauthorised data transfer.
Another critical new capability is that UEBA (User Entity Behavior Analytics) now includes relationship mapping, utilising social graphs to detect anomalies and rapidly identify the root cause of security incidents.
Versa suggests this enables security teams to visualise risk easily and expedite forensic analysis by examining relationships between users, devices, and applications/resources. Security governance teams can also leverage this feature to tailor security policies and compliance requirements.
In the space of anomaly detection and response, Explainable AI offers insights into anomaly detection without relying on logs, streamlining understanding for operations teams. This enables them to understand AI-driven analysis better and respond more effectively.
Meanwhile, integrating MITRE ATT&CK TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, Procedures) into Versa UEBA enhances the accuracy of threat detections and enables rapid incident response by providing detailed insights into adversary behaviours from an expanded library of attack behaviours.
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Last year, Lumen partnered with Versa Networks to bolster its range of network services and security solutions.
Lumen will integrate Versa’s SASE software into its extensive network and cloud platform, aiming to provide users with improved control, visibility, and simplified network and security management of cloud-based applications on any device.
