Versa, a global provider of unified security and networking, has updated its VersaONE universal SASE platform with AI-ready edge infrastructure, enhanced data protection and AI-powered operations to help enterprises scale AI across distributed environments without added complexity or risk.
“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 at 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.”
Versa’s AI-powered data protection capabilities are intended to address modern data risks driven by AI adoption, cloud applications and increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques. “As sensitive data moves through images, documents, SaaS platforms and AI-enabled workflows, traditional inspection and rule-based DLP controls often lack the visibility and context needed to keep pace,” the company said.
The release expands Versa’s content inspection and analysis to help organizations detect, understand and protect sensitive data across multiple file types, workflows and manipulation techniques.
Among the updates, AI-enhanced OCR detects and analyzes text embedded within images, PDFs and presentation files to restore visibility into content that commonly bypasses traditional controls and help organizations protect sensitive information across cloud, SaaS and AI-driven environments, officials said.
In addition, AI-enabled contextual DLP is designed to use AI-based text analysis to identify sensitive data with greater accuracy, reduce false positives and detect manipulation techniques designed to evade traditional DLP.
Versa also has enhanced its operational workflow capabilities using AI to recognize traffic and behavioral patterns, correlate related events and surface insights more quickly.
“Network and security events can often create ‘cascades’ of alerts or alarms,” the company said. “Intelligent correlation and root-cause event analysis automatically suppresses and groups these alerts and alarms, reducing ‘noise’ in the environment while clearly explaining the underlying cause of related alarms.”
This AI-powered capability operates across networking (link failures, routing instability and connectivity degradation), network security (DPI-based traffic inspection, signature-driven anomaly detection and intelligent classification of unknown traffic), security (large or anomalous file uploads/downloads and potential data-exfiltration patterns) and the user experience (bandwidth contention, latency spikes and performance degradation), officials said.
In addition, Versa’s AI-powered co-pilot (Verbo) has been enhanced with agentic AI capabilities using Versa’s MCP integration to deliver issue identification, guided troubleshooting and recommended actions, with conversational access to guidance without switching tools, the company said.
Further, Versa has strengthened its platform to support emerging requirements to deploy “edge AI” workloads natively across distributed environments. These enhancements include AI-ready software architecture in which its uCPE (universal customer premises equipment) capability now supports containerized services within service chains. This provides enterprises the flexibility to introduce and scale AI-driven capabilities on their existing infrastructure, officials said.
Additionally, support for Ubuntu 22.04 and Linux kernel 6.8 provides an OS foundation designed to improve compatibility with SoC-based hardware and widely adopted AI frameworks. “Because SoCs are common in network appliances, edge platforms and AI inference devices—and Ubuntu 22.04 has become a standard baseline across modern AI ecosystems—this enables reliable AI-driven classification, anomaly detection and contextual analysis for use cases such as data loss prevention and observability,” the company said.
