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Versa has announced significant AI-driven enhancements to its VersaONE Universal SASE Platform, introducing capabilities that support secure and scalable AI adoption across distributed enterprise environments. These updates focus on AI-ready edge infrastructure, strengthened data protection, and AI-powered operations to address the challenges CIOs and CISOs face in accelerating AI without increasing complexity, cost, or risk.
The latest release of VersaONE empowers organizations to operationalize AI from pilots to production environments. Enterprises increasingly need infrastructure that supports fast AI adoption while maintaining strong security and simplicity. Versa's updates address this by integrating AI across the platform, enabling secure handling of AI workloads at the network edge and better protection for sensitive data flowing through modern applications, SaaS, and AI workflows.
Versa expands content inspection to tackle risks from AI adoption, cloud apps, and advanced evasion methods. Traditional DLP struggles with visibility into embedded text or manipulated content. The enhancements use AI to analyze diverse file types and workflows, reducing exposure from malicious or accidental leaks. Key additions include AI-enhanced OCR for detecting text in images, PDFs, and presentations, plus AI-enabled contextual DLP for precise identification of sensitive data, fewer false positives, and detection of manipulation attempts.
Operations gain efficiency through AI that recognizes patterns, correlates events, and delivers faster insights. This reduces alert overload by grouping and suppressing related alarms while explaining root causes. Coverage spans networking issues like link failures, security events such as anomaly detection, potential exfiltration patterns, and user experience factors including latency. The Verbo AI co-pilot now incorporates agentic AI via MCP integration, offering conversational troubleshooting, issue identification, and action recommendations without tool-switching.
To support edge AI deployments, Versa enhances its uCPE capabilities for containerized services in service chains, allowing flexible scaling of AI functions on existing hardware. The platform adopts Ubuntu 22.04 and Linux kernel 6.8 for better compatibility with SoC-based devices and AI frameworks, enabling reliable AI-driven tasks like classification, anomaly detection, and contextual analysis in DLP and observability.
These capabilities deliver a unified foundation for enterprises to scale AI securely across branches, campuses, and clouds, with consistent policies and visibility.
“AI is moving from pilots to production, and enterprises need a unified foundation to scale it safely,” said Kumar Mehta, founder and chief development officer, Versa. “With this VersaONE release, Versa brings AI-ready edge infrastructure, stronger data protection, and AI-powered operations together in one SASE platform, so teams can accelerate adoption while keeping risk, complexity, and control firmly in check.”
“As enterprises move from AI pilots to production, they need an architecture that can support distributed AI workloads without introducing risk or operational overhead,” said Brad LaPorte, Gartner veteran and strategic advisor. “Versa’s unified SASE platform provides the AI-ready foundation to deploy, protect, and operate AI across branch, campus, and cloud, with consistent policy enforcement and visibility. That’s what enables organizations to scale AI faster, with more control and fewer gaps than stitched-together approaches.”
“As enterprises move from AI pilots to production, the real challenge is no longer experimentation — it’s operating AI at scale without increasing data risk or operational complexity. Distributed environments demand architectures that provide consistent policy enforcement, clear visibility, and resilience by design. The organizations that succeed will be those that simplify their foundations while maintaining control as AI becomes embedded across the business,” said Richard Rivest, senior manager, network engineering at Backblaze.
“Our customers are asking how to adopt AI faster without introducing new risk or complexity. The market is demanding unified platforms that can support AI workloads securely across distributed environments. That's the direction enterprises are heading — and partners need to be ready to help them get there,” said Kent MacDonald, strategic alliances, Calgary-based Long View Systems, a leading North American provider of IT solutions and managed services.
About Versa
Versa, the global leader in unified security and networking, enables organizations to create self-protecting networks that radically simplify and automate their network and security infrastructure. Powered by AI, the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform delivers converged SSE, SD-WAN, and SD-LAN solutions that protect data and defend against cyberthreats while delivering a superior digital experience. Thousands of customers globally, with hundreds of thousands of sites and millions of users, trust Versa with their mission critical networks and security. Versa is privately held and funded by investors such as Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, and BlackRock.
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