Versa has rolled out three product and partnership updates aimed at bringing security controls closer to enterprise users and where applications operate. This movement spans edge infrastructure, web browsers, and inbound internet traffic.
The announcements include a collaboration with Intel on AI processing at the network edge, an early access release of a secure enterprise browser, and a new cloud service that inspects incoming traffic before it reaches internet-connected applications.
edge collaboration
Versa is collaborating with Intel on an approach to run AI-driven networking, security, and analytics functions in distributed edge environments such as branches and campuses. The effort combines Intel Xeon 6 processors with VersaONE, Versa’s Universal SASE platform, and the Versa operating system.
The companies described the effort as an AI inference pilot for selected AI and machine learning workloads, including traditional machine learning models, deep neural networks, and small language models. The goal is to process certain functions locally rather than sending data back to a central location.
Intel Xeon 6 includes Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions, which Intel positions as an accelerator for matrix operations used in many AI models. Versa said early tests showed increased throughput for edge AI inference compared to previous generation processors, but did not provide benchmark numbers.
Versa tied this effort to low-latency use cases in security and operations, citing advanced threat protection, data loss prevention, and predictive analytics as examples of capabilities that can be performed at the edge. He also pointed to industry scenarios such as computer vision in retail, predictive maintenance in manufacturing, and real-time fraud detection in financial services.
said Nikhil Desai, senior director of product management at Versa. “Our collaboration with Intel is focused on helping our customers explore more efficient ways to run AI-powered security, networking, and analytics at the edge with the performance, control, and security they need to run distributed enterprises.”
Intel framed this effort as part of a shift in the way organizations build networks as more traffic and workloads rely on AI. “Moving to an AI-driven enterprise requires intelligence integrated directly into the network architecture,” said Cristina Rodriguez, vice president and general manager of network and edge at Intel. “By leveraging Intel Xeon 6 with embedded AI through Intel AMX, Versa provides the high-throughput, low-latency foundation needed to run complex AI inference at the edge.”
browser control
Versa also launched early access for Versa Secure Enterprise Browser. This product integrates with the VersaONE platform to enforce security and data protection policies within your browser session.
As organizations increasingly rely on SaaS, web applications, and AI tools accessed through standard browsers, Versa positions the browser as a critical control point. It said organizations should enforce policies for actions during sessions such as copying information, uploading files, pasting into AI tools, and downloading sensitive content.
The company says Versa Secure Enterprise Browser is built on Chromium and supports Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Centrally managed through VersaONE, it uses the same policy and telemetry framework as services such as Secure Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker, and Zero Trust Network Access.
Anusha Vaidyanathan, senior director of product management at Versa, said the browser extends the existing policy model to the session layer.
“The browser is becoming the primary workspace for employees to interact with SaaS, web, and AI applications,” she said. “Versa Secure Enterprise Browser allows customers to extend the same SASE architecture they already rely on into the browser session itself, bringing browser-native visibility, access control and data protection into a unified policy framework across SWG, CASB, ZTNA and the broader VersaONE platform. At RSA, we will be demonstrating this capability in a live GenAI environment.”
Versa cited Gartner research on secure enterprise browser adoption. Gartner predicts that “by 2028, 25% of organizations will augment their existing secure remote access tools by deploying at least one secure enterprise browser technology, up from about 10% today.”
“Web browsers are the primary access method for most modern enterprise applications, providing an endpoint-independent enterprise security control point,” said Max Taggett, senior principal analyst at Gartner. “Security leaders can use SEB to reduce risk and improve digital experiences.”
Acceptance inspection
The third update is Versa Inbound SSE. It is a cloud-delivered service that inspects incoming internet traffic and applies security policies before it reaches your applications, APIs, and services. Security services edge products typically focus on outbound traffic from users to the Internet. Versa says this feature extends its approach to the receive path of internet-facing workloads.
This service directs incoming connections to the Versa cloud gateway for inspection and evaluation against policies and forwards authorized traffic to the target application environment. Versa says protection includes access control based on IP address and location, denial of service detection and mitigation, bot filtering, intrusion detection and prevention, and malware detection.
Rahul Vaidya, senior director of product management at Versa, said incoming traffic patterns are changing as applications are distributed across data centers, branches, and cloud environments.
“Security Service Edge was designed for a world where users start connecting to the outside world,” he said. “But today, enterprise applications are distributed everywhere, and traffic flows in all directions. Versa Inbound SSE extends the unified SASE architecture to secure the inbound path, applying consistent security to organizations no matter where their applications are hosted or where their traffic originates.”
Versa also positioned inbound SSE as an opportunity for service providers. Versa says Swisscom uses this feature within its Beem service.
“Versa’s inbound SSE capabilities enable beem to inspect and control internet traffic before it reaches a customer’s applications. As a result, beem customers can remove redundant on-premises firewalls without giving up the ability to host applications locally,” said Egon Steinkasserer, B2B chief technology officer at Swisscom.
Versa Inbound SSE is available as part of the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform. The browser will be available through an early access program, and the collaboration with Intel will focus on piloting selected edge AI workloads.
