2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
Versa · VersaONE Universal SASE Platform
Best Security Platform
Overview
Versa is the global leader in unified security and networking, delivering AI-powered cyber protection for the world's largest and most security-sensitive enterprises.
The VersaONE Universal SASE Platform converges Zero Trust Network Access, Secure Service Edge, secure web gateway, CASB, firewall, cloud security posture management, and AI-driven threat analytics into a single software architecture with unified policy enforcement and visibility. Unlike security stacks assembled through acquisition, VersaONE was built as one system from the ground up, eliminating the policy gaps, visibility blind spots, and integration overhead that fragment most enterprise security programs.
As AI reshapes enterprise traffic and creates new attack surfaces, Versa secures users, applications, data, and AI interactions wherever work happens. Versa is trusted by thousands of customers globally, including approximately 50% of the Fortune 10 and 28% of the Fortune 50, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, and BlackRock.
Key Capabilities
- Unified SASE architecture integrating networking and security into a single platform built from the ground up, not assembled through acquisition
- Converged SSE, SD-WAN, SD-LAN, ZTNA, CASB, SWG, and digital experience monitoring in one operating model
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) providing continuous visibility, risk-based prioritization, and guided remediation across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, correlated with access risk on a single platform
- AI-powered operations co-pilot, Versa Verbo, delivering event correlation, anomaly detection, and guided troubleshooting, reducing mean time to resolution by up to 45%
- AI Agent Trust and Verification framework within Versa Verbo, applying Zero Trust principles to AI agent actions. Every agent-generated step is validated against user identity, role-based access controls, and system policies before execution, with administrator-defined approval where required
- Centralized orchestration and unified policy management through Versa Concerto, eliminating islands of policy across SD-WAN and SSE environments
- Zero Trust enforcement across users, devices, applications, branches, browsers, and AI-driven workflows
- Sovereign SASE capabilities supporting data locality, regional inspection, and compliance requirements for regulated industries and government environments
- Flexible deployment across SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments
How we are different
Built, not bolted. True single-vendor unified architecture rather than loosely integrated acquisitions or point products. Competitors are still working through integration seams – Versa was designed to avoid them from the beginning.
AI-era enforcement. As enterprise traffic shifts from human-driven flows to machine-to-machine interactions, Versa is the only SASE platform with a purpose-built framework to verify and govern AI agent actions before execution – addressing a trust gap most platforms were not designed to handle.
Unified risk intelligence. Versa combines cloud posture risk and access risk in a single correlated view, eliminating the two-portal problem that forces security teams to manage cloud misconfiguration and access security in separate tools with no shared context.
Proven at enterprise scale. Supporting secure connectivity for approximately 50% of the Fortune 10 and 28% of the Fortune 50, across hundreds of thousands of sites and millions of users worldwide.
Operationally measurable. Versa Verbo reduces mean time to resolution by up to 45%, giving enterprises a concrete, quantifiable operational benefit alongside security improvements.
Research-backed market leadership. Versa's 2026 State of SASE + AI Report, based on a survey of 525 senior IT and security decision-makers, found that 35% of enterprises suffered a breach tied to coordination gaps between networking and security teams, validating the architectural convergence thesis at the core of VersaONE.
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