SSH keys → certificates. Static passwords → rotated vault. Secrets in pipelines → ephemeral tokens.
Shared agent secrets → mTLS identity. Manual compliance → enforced. Sidecars → eBPF. 8–12 tools → 1.
A unified control plane for infrastructure — compute and network. One agent across Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, ARM64 edge, and network switches — SONiC and Cisco IOS-XE. One policy engine. One audit trail. Versiera doesn't just observe your infrastructure. It enforces it.
Not a bundle of security products that happen to ship together. One agent, one policy engine, one audit trail — doing three things across every layer of your estate.
Every enterprise runs some version of this list — separately licensed, separately deployed, separately audited, and integrated by hand. Each row is a procurement line item and a set of credentials that has to be managed somewhere. Versiera collapses the column.
Every row is a category of infrastructure tooling that enterprises currently buy, manage, and integrate separately. Versiera replaces the entire column.
| Category | Traditional | Versiera |
|---|---|---|
| SSH access | static keys | SSH CA · short-lived certificates |
| secrets | env vars · config files | ephemeral tokens · zero stored secrets |
| credentials | static passwords · never rotated | vault rotation · time-limited checkout |
| observability | sidecars / agents | eBPF · kernel-level · no overhead |
| compliance | manual · quarterly audits | enforced · continuous · auto-remediated |
| platforms | Linux + Windows (maybe) | 6 OS · BSD · ARM64 · edge native |
| tools | 8–12 | 1 |
Lightweight agent → central collector → security core → policy engine → operator console. Every component is purpose-built, self-hosted, and air-gap compatible.
Enterprise infrastructure security has been sold as a collection of specializations. One tool watches your servers. Another manages SSH keys. A third vaults credentials. A fourth enforces firewall policy. A fifth handles compliance. A sixth governs accounts.
Each of those tools is built by a different vendor, priced independently, maintained separately, and integrated by your team using brittle scripts and manual runbooks. None of them share context. None of them enforce anything across all your platforms. And none of them were built for the ARM64 edge infrastructure where your fleet is actually growing.
Attackers don't exploit your best tool. They exploit the gaps between them — the SSH key nobody revoked, the service password nobody rotated, the firewall rule that drifted six months ago, the stale account that was never cleaned up.
Versiera was built to fix this.
Not as another monitoring tool. Not as another compliance scanner. As a unified enforcement layer — one agent that observes, enforces, controls access, and eliminates permanent credentials across your entire fleet.
8–12 tools means 8–12 trust boundaries, 8–12 audit logs, and 8–12 places for policy to diverge from reality. Security teams spend more time maintaining integrations than enforcing policy.
Most tools detect problems. Almost none fix them. Drift is found, a ticket is filed, and the misconfiguration persists for weeks. Versiera closes the loop: detect, remediate, verify, audit.
SSH keys never revoked. Service passwords never rotated. CI/CD secrets hardcoded in env vars. When one is compromised, the blast radius spans the entire fleet — and nobody knows how long it's been exposed.
ARM64 edge nodes — Raspberry Pi clusters, industrial gateways, retail POS — are running real workloads with zero security governance. No enterprise platform was built for them. Until now.
The average enterprise runs 8–12 separate tools to cover what Versiera provides in a single platform. The result is gaps, drift, and operational overhead that grows with every new host.
Rules diverge across hundreds of hosts with no baseline, no compliance visibility, and no automated remediation path.
Authorized_keys files proliferate with no revocation mechanism, no audit trail, and no certificate lifecycle management.
Stale accounts linger after offboarding across Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows with no enforcement engine to act on them.
CVE exposure remains unknown until breach. Security updates go unapplied for months across the fleet without central visibility.
X.509 and SSH certificates expire silently, causing outages and authentication failures with no centralized alerting.
Network flows, RTT, DNS, NTP, and syslog compliance are scattered across vendor-specific tools with no unified dashboard.
Service accounts accumulate static passwords shared across systems. Manual rotation is skipped. Privileged credentials never expire. When one is compromised, the blast radius spans the entire fleet — and nobody knows for how long it's been exposed. This is the problem Versiera Vault was built to eliminate.
Every row in this table was previously a separate tool, a separate vendor, a separate bill — and a separate gap in your security posture.
| Problem | ❌ Without Versiera | ✓ With Versiera |
|---|---|---|
| SSH key sprawl | unmanaged authorized_keys everywhere, no audit trail, no revocation | centralized SSH CA · short-lived certs · KRL auto-distribution |
| Privileged credential reuse | static passwords · shared service accounts · manual rotation never happens | Vault rotation · time-limited checkout · break-glass access · full audit |
| Firewall config drift | rules diverge across hundreds of hosts · manual audits every quarter | enforced templates · drift auto-remediation · dual-hash detection |
| Stale account sprawl | offboarded users linger on Linux, BSD, macOS, Windows for months | 3-layer cryptographic enforcement · accounts locked, never deleted |
| Certificate expiry outages | SSH + X.509 certs expire silently · no centralized alerting | auto-renewal scheduler · 30-day + 7-day expiry alerts · audit log |
| ARM64 security blindspot | no enterprise tooling supports Raspberry Pi, Jetson, or ARM blade clusters | native ARM64 agent · 15MB binary · edge class pricing · full feature parity |
| CI/CD embedded secrets | credentials stored in GitHub/GitLab secrets, env vars, and config files — permanently exposed | Vault API tokens · single-use · time-limited · SHA-256 hashed · pipelines never store secrets |
| Invisible lateral movement | no visibility into east-west traffic · attackers move between systems undetected | eBPF flow capture · pod-to-pod RTT · service dependency mapping · anomaly detection |
| Tool sprawl | 8–12 fragmented tools · 8–12 vendors · 8–12 contracts | 1 platform · 1 agent · 1 console · 1 audit log |
From agent deployment to certificate lifecycle, compliance enforcement to network visibility — Versiera covers the full surface of infrastructure security operations.
Credential storage, automated rotation, time-limited checkout, and dual-control approval — across all 6 platforms. AES-256-GCM encrypted. Scheduler-driven. Tamper-evident audit trail.
CI/CD pipelines never store secrets. Ever. Single-use, time-limited API tokens — no credentials in env vars or config files. SHA-256 hashed. Plaintext shown once.
Full PKI for SSH. Host and user cert signing, KRL generation and auto-distribution, renewal scheduling. Enterprise-grade SSH PKI without another security product.
Template-based compliance for Firewall, SSHD, DNS, NTP, Syslog, Users, Sudo, service-account governance, service baselines, and agent configuration — assigned to agent groups, evaluated continuously, and enforced automatically. One workflow. Ten compliance domains.
TCP flow capture with kprobe-based RTT measurement. Business Application Monitoring baselines. IP intelligence scoring for fleet connections.
Service mesh observability without a service mesh. Pod-to-pod RTT, flow visibility, workload identity resolution — no sidecar, no CNI changes. Single DaemonSet per node.
3-layer cryptographic enforcement: API gate → DB constraint → agent verification callback. Accounts locked automatically on policy violation — impossible to abuse even with DB access.
A built-in x509 CA issues each agent its own identity certificate — leaf CN is the agent UUID. The collector can require a verified client certificate instead of trusting a bare agent ID. Per-group rollout, dual-trust while you migrate, CRL-backed revocation, and a break-glass kill switch.
Who accessed what server, when, and with which credential — correlated across eBPF flows, auth logs, Vault checkouts, and firewall policy. The traversal graph then reconstructs identity movement hop by hop, so a bastion chain reads as one story instead of six disconnected logins.
Per-host CVE exposure tracking with CVSS scoring, security update scheduling, patch compliance dashboards, and X.509 certificate expiry monitoring across your entire fleet.
The same three pillars, seen from the inside — what each one is actually made of.
Six capabilities that competitors can't replicate — because they each require separate products, or have never been built.
The only enterprise security platform with first-class support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD — including pf template management, NPF compliance, and POSIX-compatible installers. CrowdStrike doesn't touch BSD. CyberArk barely does.
Unique capability15MB single binary. Zero runtime dependencies. Full feature parity on Raspberry Pi 4 through enterprise blade clusters. No competitor offers this. The ARM64 security gap is a $4B+ untapped market.
Market gapFull PKI for SSH: host certs, user certs, KRL auto-distribution. CyberArk charges a separate license for this. StepCA requires a separate product entirely. Versiera includes it at every paid tier.
Included, not extraEnterprise-grade PAM — encrypted storage, automated rotation, time-limited checkout, break-glass, full audit trail — in the same platform as your compliance engine and SSH CA. CyberArk costs $150K+ standalone. Versiera includes it at Professional.
CyberArk alternativeDashboards don't secure infrastructure — enforcement does. When an account violates policy, it is locked. When a firewall drifts, it is remediated. The 3-layer cryptographic enforcement engine is tamper-resistant by design, not policy.
Active securityNo cloud dependency. No telemetry phone-home. No data leaves your environment. Runs entirely on infrastructure you control. Financial institutions and industrial operators require this. SaaS-based competitors cannot offer it.
Sovereign deploymentVersiera is fully self-hosted. There is no Versiera cloud, no telemetry reporting, no vendor dependency. This is a deliberate design choice that matters to financial, industrial, and government buyers.
ARM64 is the fastest-growing segment of enterprise compute — and the most unprotected. Every competitor was designed for x86 data centre servers. Versiera is the only security platform built for where the fleet is actually going.
Native ARM64 agents run on Raspberry Pi 4/5, CM4/CM5, Orange Pi, and Jetson clusters. The 15MB single-binary agent imposes negligible overhead — no container runtime, no JVM, no interpreter. Full feature parity with x86, not a stripped-down port.
Factory-floor edge compute, PLCs with Linux or BSD embedded OS, and SCADA-adjacent systems that are networked but never governed. Versiera brings IEC 62443-aligned firewall enforcement, account governance, and Vault PAM to OT environments with no security tooling at all.
Thousands of point-of-sale nodes, distribution hubs, and cold-chain gateways — ARM-based, geographically dispersed, zero on-site IT. Versiera enforces consistent firewall policy, NTP sync, credential rotation, and account governance across every location from one console.
Hardware manufacturers are the fastest path to fleet-scale adoption. Versiera Community bundled in firmware means the agent is already running before the customer makes a purchasing decision.
Blade cluster vendors (Turing Pi, Compute Blade, OnLogic), industrial compute manufacturers (Beckhoff, Kontron, Axiomtek), and ARM-based hardware partners license Versiera Community as a bundled management layer. End customers deploy hardware with the agent already running — and see immediate value at boot.
Contact sales to discuss OEM partner terms →
When you're managing hundreds or thousands of distributed nodes — across data centres, retail sites, edge locations, and industrial clusters — consistency and enforcement aren't optional. Versiera was designed specifically for this scale.
Monitor east-west traffic within high-density blade clusters. Detect lateral movement and RTT latency at the kernel level — without heavy sidecars, service meshes, or network taps. Works natively on ARM64 nodes including Raspberry Pi clusters and industrial compute hardware.
Eliminate manual management of authorized_keys across every node in the fleet. Issue short-lived, identity-based certificates for entire racks of nodes instantly. KRL auto-distribution ensures revoked credentials are blocked fleet-wide within 15 minutes of compromise detection.
Request a live demo or a technical deep-dive. We'll walk through the platform with your actual infrastructure in mind.
Versiera uniquely combines: SSH CA, mTLS agent identity, Vault (PAM + CI/CD), eBPF observability, privileged session audit, an enforcement engine, multi-OS including BSD, ARM64 edge, and network devices running SONiC or Cisco IOS-XE. No major vendor does all of these. Versiera does.
Observe all traffic within edge clusters at the kernel level. eBPF-based TCP flow capture with kprobe RTT measurement — no sidecars, no agents-within-agents, no network reconfiguration. Works on amd64 and ARM64.
Eliminate manual management of authorized_keys with short-lived, identity-based certificates. Host and user cert signing, KRL auto-distribution, and renewal scheduling — Enterprise-grade PKI built into the platform at no extra cost.
First-class support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD — including pf template management, NPF compliance, BSD-native rc.d service integration, and POSIX-compatible installers. The only enterprise security platform that takes BSD seriously.
Real-time telemetry from Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Windows — and now SONiC switches — unified in one console.
The same 15MB agent runs natively on SONiC switches. Same policy engine. Same audit trail. Network devices are no longer managed as isolated systems — they live in the same control plane as the rest of your fleet.
Define once. Assign to groups. Evaluate continuously. Enforce automatically.
| Module | Engines / Platforms | What's managed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firewall | pf · NPF · iptables · nftables · WFW | Template-based rule sets with dual-hash drift detection. Supports dynamic sets without false positives. | Live |
| SSHD Config | Linux · macOS · FreeBSD · OpenBSD · NetBSD | MaxAuthTries, PermitRootLogin, AllowUsers, cipher suites, key types, port settings. | Live |
| User Accounts | All 6 platforms | Prohibited account detection with 3-layer cryptographic enforcement. Accounts locked, never deleted. | Live |
| Sudo Policy | Linux · macOS · BSD | sudoers template management, NOPASSWD rules, command whitelisting, compliance snapshots. | Live |
| DNS Resolver | resolv.conf · netplan · systemd-resolved | Nameserver addresses, search domains, resolver options. Drift detection and correction jobs. | Live |
| NTP | ntpd · chrony · Windows Time | Time server sources, stratum requirements, drift file configuration. | Live |
| Syslog | rsyslog · syslog-ng · BSD syslogd | Remote log targets, facility/severity filtering, protocol (UDP/TCP/TLS) enforcement. | Live |
| Svc Acct Governance | All 6 platforms | Service accounts held to declared ownership, shell, login policy and Vault coverage. Surfaces the accounts nobody owns. | Live |
| Service Baseline | systemd · launchd · rc.d · SCM | Declared running/stopped/enabled state per service. Drift raises a finding; remediation restores the baseline. | Live |
| Agent Config | All platforms incl. network devices | The agent's own configuration under template control — intervals, log rotation, restart policy — pushed and verified like any other module. | Live |
| DNS · NTP · Syslog (SONiC) | SONiC network OS | The same three templates evaluated against switch configuration through the SONiC adapters — one policy surface for servers and switches. | Live |
Enterprise SSH PKI without a second security product to buy, deploy and audit. Ed25519 to RSA, host to user certs, KRL to auto-renewal — all in the platform.
Agents collect SSH host public keys automatically. Bulk signing across the fleet. Deployed certificates update sshd_config with HostCertificate directive. Eliminates known_hosts sprawl.
Issue per-user certs with principals mapped to Unix usernames. Source address restrictions, force-command option. 8-hour interactive sessions or up to 90-day service accounts.
KRL auto-regenerated every 5 minutes when new revocations exist. Deployed to all affected agents. sshd_config updated with RevokedKeys directive. Compromise-to-blocked in under 15 minutes.
Certificates renewed automatically before the configurable expiry window (default 30 days). No manual intervention, no outages. All renewal actions recorded in the audit log.
Most fleet agents authenticate with a shared secret or an agent ID. Anything that learns the ID can impersonate the host. Versiera issues every agent its own certificate from a built-in CA and lets the collector require it — mutual TLS, with the leaf CN bound to the agent UUID.
Generate a CA in the console; the newest active CA becomes the default signer. The root is exported to Nginx for verification and downloadable as PEM. Private keys are never stored for issued certificates. Retire a CA by deactivating it — certificates it already signed keep validating until they expire or are revoked.
Enforcement is off until you turn it on, and then group by group. While the master switch is off the collector accepts either a UUID or a presented certificate, and coverage is measured so you can confirm readiness before flipping anything. No fleet-wide big bang, no morning where half the estate goes dark.
One control forces enforcement off fleet-wide during an incident, and it is loud and audited when active. Your enforce configuration is preserved rather than reset — clear the flag when the incident closes and the previous posture returns. A clock guard catches the certificate-validity failure mode that time skew produces.
The revocations view separates serials that are published in a CRL from those that are merely marked revoked in the database — because only the first is actually enforced. Pending revocations are labelled as not-yet-blocking rather than counted as done. CRLs regenerate on a schedule and republish to Nginx.
Hosts enrol through the reconciler and are re-provisioned automatically after a revoke-and-reissue. A scheduler re-mints any identity certificate entering its renewal window, with configurable window, renewed validity, and scan interval. An enrollment grace path prevents the deadlock where enforcement locks out a host that was never issued a certificate.
Every CA operation — signing, revocation, CRL generation, CA creation and deactivation — is written by the collector with operator identity, source, and timestamp. Read-only from the console: entries cannot be edited or deleted through the UI. Rejected connections are recorded with their reason, so a failing agent is diagnosable rather than merely absent.
Versiera does both, and they are separate features. The Identity CA above issues certificates to your agents. X.509 Certificate Monitoring watches the SSL/TLS certificates on your endpoints — discovery, chain validation, and expiry alerting against configurable warning and critical thresholds.
Enterprises rely on static credentials, shared passwords, and manual rotation. Versiera Vault eliminates all of it — automated, audited, time-limited credential access across every system in your fleet.
Replace GitHub Actions secrets, GitLab CI variables, and AWS Secrets Manager with single-use, time-limited Vault tokens. No credentials in env vars. No secrets in config files. No permanent exposure.
Session logs live in one system, credential checkouts in another, and network flows in a third — so answering a simple audit question means joining three exports by hand. Versiera correlates them at ingest: eBPF flows, authentication events, Vault checkouts, and firewall policy verdicts against a single session record.
Every privileged session carries source, target, protocol, authentication method, duration, byte volume, and the firewall verdict that allowed or blocked it. Sessions are classified as allowed, blocked, or unknown-verdict — the third bucket exists deliberately, because pretending a partial correlation is a clean one is how audits go wrong.
Sessions opened with a Vault-issued credential are separated from those that were not. That single split is the difference between "we have a PAM product" and "we can show which access actually went through it" — and the non-Vault rows are precisely the follow-up list.
Forensic reconstruction of identity movement across the fleet. A bastion chain — laptop to jump host to database server, changing username at each hop — reads as one connected path instead of three unrelated logins. Ask it both ways: where has this identity been, or who touched this host.
The fleet-wide view of identity movement, plus the mapping layer that ties local usernames on different hosts to the same human. Without it, jsmith, j.smith and svc_deploy look like three people.
Denied connections against privileged ports are bucketed per source with the matched rule and target host retained. Aggregation reduces noise without collapsing attribution — you still know which source, against which host, on which rule.
The session view is mapped to the controls an auditor asks about — logical access controls, least privilege, and system-level monitoring — with the specific rows that evidence each one. Export the window, not a screenshot of a dashboard.
Detect latency, map service dependencies, and identify lateral movement — without sidecars or service mesh overhead.
Service mesh observability without a service mesh. One DaemonSet per node. Zero application changes. Works with any CNI.
kprobe on inet_sock_set_state fires on every TCP event. CgroupID, IPs, and RTT captured at kernel level — zero overhead on application code.
/proc/<pid>/cgroup path parsed to extract pod UID. client-go informer cache maps UID to pod name, namespace, workload, and node — all in-process, no API calls per flow.
Flow reports include full pod identity fields. Collector writes to kubernetes_flows hypertable. TimescaleDB compresses after 7 days, drops after 90.
kubernetes_flow_rtt_5min continuous aggregate evaluated hourly. Threshold violations fire alerts with workload pair, cluster name, and node context — resolved automatically when RTT normalizes.
Not an SNMP poller pointed at it from a management VLAN. The same Versiera agent, built once as a network variant, running natively on SONiC and as an IOx application container on Cisco Catalyst — reading the chassis through the platform's own management interfaces and reporting into the same fleet as your servers.
Deployed as an IOx container and validated end-to-end on a Catalyst C9300L-24P-4X running IOS-XE 17.15.6 — not an emulator. Chassis serial, model and software version; every interface with counters, speed, duplex, media type and VLAN membership; environment sensors with vendor-supplied thresholds; PoE budget and allocation; control-plane memory; flash storage.
Runs directly on SONiC-based switches, reading device state from the SONiC Redis socket rather than scraping a CLI. Port state, BGP session status through vtysh, and LLDP neighbours land in the same inventory as everything else. DNS, NTP and Syslog compliance templates evaluate against switch configuration through SONiC adapters.
The device page renders the actual front panel — correct port count, correct uplink module, correct physical ordering — with live link state, throughput and error rates per port. Hover any port for its detail. Grid and faceplate views, sortable by port order or by busiest.
Access and trunk configuration per port with VLAN membership, plus the MAC address table decoded into an endpoint inventory — what is actually plugged into which port. A bundled OUI registry resolves manufacturers offline, with longest-prefix matching down to /36 for the registry blocks that need it. Move detection surfaces endpoints that changed port.
Per-port PoE draw against the chassis budget, environment sensors carrying the vendor's own thresholds rather than invented ones, and LLDP/CDP neighbour discovery. The unsaved-config flag gives an immediate partial answer on configuration divergence — running versus startup — before full drift detection lands.
Network devices are ordinary fleet members: same tags, static and dynamic groups, jobs, alerts, agent-config template push, x509 identity and audit log. No second console, no separate inventory to reconcile, no export step between the network team's tooling and the security team's.
Everything described above is the read plane, and it is validated on real hardware. Write-side enforcement on IOS-XE — pushing NTP, syslog, SNMP, AAA and banner configuration back over NETCONF, IOS-XE local user management, and ACL policy — is designed and reachable but not yet shipped. Two capabilities are deliberately compiled out of the network build: security patch management and internet speed testing, because both would report the container's posture and present it as a fact about the switch. Declining to answer is more honest than answering wrongly.
Known blocked: ISR 4000 series, which needs 8 GB DRAM and internal SSD storage before IOx is available at all.
The account enforcement engine uses three independent layers. An attacker with full DB access and full API access combined cannot trigger unauthorized enforcement actions.
The restricted_job_types table blocks enforcement job types from any HTTP API endpoint. Only the scheduler process (direct DB insert) can create these jobs. Returns 403 Forbidden to any external attempt.
A CHECK constraint enforces created_by = 'users_enforcement_scheduler'. Even with direct DB access, rows cannot be inserted with a different creator. Each action receives a cryptographic 32-byte verification token.
Before locking any account, the agent calls back to POST /api/users/enforce/verify with job_id + token. The collector validates token authenticity, originator identity, and a 2-hour freshness window. All three must pass.
The sections above are the headline capabilities. These are the rest of the console — each one live, each one sharing the same agent, inventory, groups, alerting and audit trail.
Every listening service across the fleet, ranked by exposure — what is reachable, from where, and whether any policy actually constrains it.
Scoring and enrichment for every external address your fleet talks to, so unexpected egress is visible without a separate threat-intel product.
Scheduled path and reachability probes run from the agent itself. Per-hop loss, jitter and latency from where the problem actually is, not from a central prober.
Guided onboarding that tracks each host through SSH-CA and x509 identity provisioning, with the failure state named rather than hidden behind a spinner.
Push and upgrade agents from the console across every platform, with per-version rollout views, rollback evidence and persistent-binary upgrade on constrained devices.
A defined exit path — retire a host, revoke its certificates, and stop it appearing as a false gap in coverage metrics.
Static and dynamic groups driven by rule-based tagging. Assign policy to a rule, not to a list you have to remember to update.
Fleet-wide service inventory with per-host detail, feeding the service-baseline compliance module.
Build and review firewall policy visually with impact preview before anything is pushed, across pf, NPF, iptables, nftables and Windows Firewall.
Baselines for the flows that matter to a named application, so a regression is reported in business terms rather than as an anomalous port.
Editable topology diagrams built from observed inventory rather than drawn by hand and left to rot.
Discovery and expiry alerting for the SSL/TLS certificates on your endpoints, with configurable warning and critical thresholds.
Fleet-wide visibility of every remaining authorized_keys entry, plus migration tracking as you move hosts onto certificates.
One alert engine across every module — email, webhook and Slack — and one immutable operator audit log covering every console action.
CrowdStrike watches. Ansible configures. CyberArk vaults. Splunk logs. Versiera does all of it — in a single 15MB agent, across every OS you run, including BSD and ARM64 edge hardware none of them support.
| Capability | Versiera | CrowdStrike Falcon |
Ansible / Puppet |
CyberArk PAM Suite |
Splunk Enterprise |
HashiCorp Vault |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleet Monitoring — 6 OS Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD |
✓ | Linux/Win/Mac only | Agent required | ✗ | Log-only | ✗ |
| ARM64 & Edge Native Raspberry Pi, blade clusters, industrial IoT |
✓ | ✗ | Partial | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Firewall Compliance pf · NPF · iptables · nftables · WFW — drift detection + remediation |
✓ | ✗ | Config mgmt only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| SSH Certificate Authority (PKI) Host + user certs, KRL, auto-renewal — built in |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (add-on) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Privileged Access Management (Vault) AES-256-GCM encrypted vault, rotation, checkout, audit |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (core product) | ✗ | ✓ (secrets only) |
| Account Enforcement (3-layer) Cryptographic verification — API + DB + agent callback |
✓ | ✗ | No enforcement | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| eBPF Network Flows + RTT Kernel-level TCP capture, IP intelligence, BAM baselines |
✓ | NDR add-on | ✗ | ✗ | Log ingest only | ✗ |
| Kubernetes Pod-Level eBPF Pod-to-pod RTT, flow matrix, workload identity — no sidecar |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CI/CD Secrets Management Single-use, time-limited API tokens — no stored secrets in pipelines |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Separate product | ✗ | ✓ (core) |
| DNS / NTP / Syslog Compliance Template-based, continuously evaluated, auto-remediated |
✓ | ✗ | Config mgmt only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Vuln & Patch Management CVE tracking, CVSS scoring, patch compliance dashboards |
✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| mTLS Agent Identity (x509 CA) Per-agent certificates, per-group enforcement, CRL revocation — built in |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | PKI engine only |
| Privileged Session Audit + Traversal Flows + auth + Vault + firewall correlated; bastion-hop reconstruction |
✓ | Detections only | ✗ | Session recording | Manual correlation | ✗ |
| Network Device Agent — SONiC / IOS-XE Runs on the switch; ports, VLANs, MAC endpoints, PoE, sensors |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Log ingest only | ✗ |
| BSD Platform — FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD First-class pf, NPF, rc.d — not an afterthought |
✓ | ✗ | Limited | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Single unified platform All of the above. One agent. One console. One bill. |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Competitive assessments based on publicly available product documentation as of 2026. CyberArk PAM Suite includes SSH key management as a separate licensed component. HashiCorp Vault manages secrets and dynamic credentials but does not perform host compliance, fleet monitoring, or SSH host certificate signing.
Access, visibility and enforcement reach the network itself — not through an external poller, but through an agent running on the device. Native on SONiC. An IOx container on Cisco Catalyst. Same control plane either way.
Access control, visibility, and enforcement — the same three pillars Versiera provides for servers, delivered natively on SONiC-based network infrastructure.
A DevOps engineer gets temporary SSH access to both a server and a switch using the same certificate — no shared credentials, no manual provisioning.
Every enterprise runs two parallel security programs. One for compute — EDR, vault, compliance, SSH CA. And another for the network — separate NMS tools, separate credential systems, separate audit trails, separate on-call rotations. The two worlds rarely share context.
That split made sense when network devices ran proprietary, closed operating systems. It doesn't anymore. SONiC is Linux. It runs real processes, has a real filesystem, speaks the same protocols as the servers it connects. There's no technical reason for it to sit outside your control plane.
Versiera brings network devices into the same control plane as the rest of your infrastructure.
One agent. One policy engine. One audit trail. Compute and network, governed as a single fleet.
Port state, BGP neighbors, LLDP adjacencies, ACL rules, and configuration drift — surfaced inside-out from the agent running natively on SONiC. Below is the actual Versiera UI.
Port visualization · BGP neighbor state · configuration drift — all surfaced from a single agent running natively on SONiC.
The standard Linux agent runs natively on SONiC-based switches. No build variant required for the initial release — the same binary that runs on Ubuntu servers runs on SONiC.
SONiC is Linux — so the 15MB Versiera agent runs natively with zero porting. Agent communicates with SONiC's Redis-backed CONFIG_DB and STATE_DB over the local socket for port, BGP, LLDP, and interface telemetry.
Live BGP neighbor state — session state, advertised/received prefixes, hold timers, MD5 auth status — surfaced from FRRouting via vtysh. No SNMP polling, no external LG server.
Switches get the same SSH CA as the rest of your fleet. SNMP community strings rotated via Vault using a SONiC-safe character set — consumers receive the new value via webhook to keep NMS tools in sync.
DNS, NTP, Syslog, SNMP, and SSH compliance modules evaluated continuously on SONiC — same templates, same drift detection, same remediation workflow as your servers. Configuration drift detected with per-service granularity.
SONiC was the starting point because it is open. Cisco is where most enterprise campus and branch estates actually live — so the agent now ships as an IOx application, hosted by the platform's own application-hosting framework, reading the chassis through RESTCONF, NETCONF, SNMP and CLI.
IOS-XE 17.15.6. Every capability described here was measured on this chassis, not inferred from documentation. Upgrades run through app-hosting upgrade, preserving persistent application data.
Expected to work through the identical IOx deployment path. The faceplate renderer is vendor-aware, so port count and uplink module render correctly per model.
Requires 8 GB DRAM and internal mSATA or NIM-SSD storage. Without an SSD the IOx commands do not appear at all — the rear-slot USB SSD is not a substitute.
Not the container it runs in — the switch. The container model grants no host filesystem access, so the agent reads the device through its native management interfaces, exactly as the SONiC agent reads SONiC through Redis.
| Surface | Read via | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Chassis identity | RESTCONF | Serial number, model, software version, control-plane memory, flash storage. |
| Interfaces | RESTCONF · SNMP | All interfaces with counters, speed, duplex, media type and VLAN membership. Live link state and per-port throughput, errors and queue drops. |
| Switchports & VLANs | RESTCONF | Access and trunk configuration per port, VLAN membership and naming, rendered against a vendor-accurate faceplate. |
| Endpoints | matm-oper | MAC address table decoded into an endpoint inventory — what is plugged into which port, with offline OUI manufacturer resolution and move detection. |
| PoE | RESTCONF | Per-port power draw against the chassis budget and allocation. |
| Environment | RESTCONF | Sensors carrying the vendor's own thresholds, rather than thresholds invented by the monitoring tool. |
| Neighbours | LLDP · CDP | Discovered adjacencies, feeding topology and the endpoint location view. |
| Config divergence | RESTCONF | IOS-XE's own running-vs-startup unsaved-config flag — a partial drift answer available today. |
NTP, syslog, SNMP, AAA and banner compliance are readable from the running config over RESTCONF and pushable back over NETCONF. IOS-XE local user management, ACL policy, SSH configuration and full config-drift hashing are designed and modelled in YANG. These need work, not a different platform — and they are not claimed as shipped.
Security patch management and internet speed testing are excluded from the network build. Left in, they would report the container's Debian package posture and the container's route to the internet, and present both as facts about a Cisco switch. Declining to answer is more honest than answering wrongly.
One genuine constraint worth stating. NETCONF on this platform advertises writable-running, validation and rollback-on-error — but not candidate and not confirmed-commit. Timer-based self-rollback has to be built rather than relied upon. An agent inside the chassis is better placed to provide it than any external NMS, precisely because it does not lose its arm when reachability breaks.
This is the point of the whole exercise. The two platforms could hardly be more different — one is open-source Linux with a Redis state store, the other is proprietary IOS-XE reached through YANG-modelled APIs. Everything above the collection layer is identical. Versiera is not a SONiC product that also happens to read Cisco. It is a network infrastructure control plane.
| Layer | SONiC | Cisco IOS-XE |
|---|---|---|
| Agent form | Native Linux binary | IOx application container |
| Device state read via | Redis CONFIG_DB · STATE_DB · vtysh | RESTCONF · NETCONF · SNMP · CLI |
| Agent identity | mTLS · x509 leaf CN = UUID | mTLS · x509 leaf CN = UUID |
| Telemetry & inventory | Ports · BGP · LLDP · sensors | Ports · VLANs · endpoints · PoE · sensors |
| Compliance templates | DNS · NTP · Syslog — live | Readable; push not yet built |
| SSH CA | Supported | N/A — IOS-XE SSH is not OpenSSH |
| Config enforcement | Live | In development (NETCONF) |
| Central policy | Versiera | Versiera |
| Jobs · tags · groups · alerts | Versiera | Versiera |
| Audit trail | Versiera | Versiera |
| Validated on | sonic-vs (QEMU) | Catalyst C9300L-24P-4X hardware |
Identity, policy, jobs, tags, groups, alerting and audit. A switch is an ordinary fleet member — it appears in the same inventory, obeys the same dynamic group rules, and writes to the same audit log as a Linux host. There is no second console and no export step between the network team's tooling and the security team's.
The enforcement rows differ because IOS-XE's write path is newer work, not because the architecture cannot reach it — the configuration is modelled in YANG and pushable over NETCONF. SSH CA is the one honest structural gap: IOS-XE SSH is not OpenSSH on a filesystem, so host and user certificates do not apply there the way they do on SONiC.
SONiC was the starting point — the most open, extensible network OS in the industry — and Cisco IOS-XE followed because that is where most enterprise campus estates actually live. From these two, Versiera's network device support expands to further platforms along clear paths.
Native agent reading device state from the SONiC Redis socket. Three-pillar support with DNS, NTP and Syslog adapters. Validated on sonic-vs; outreach underway to Celestica and EdgeCore for physical-hardware collaboration.
IOx container agent validated on a Catalyst C9300L running IOS-XE 17.15.6. Chassis, interfaces, switchports, VLANs, MAC endpoints, PoE and sensors are live. Write-side enforcement over NETCONF is next.
Lab environment standing up now. Target: same three-pillar agent support on Juniper's evolved Junos platform.
Closed platforms that cannot host an agent are reachable through agentless API integration — the same observability surface, delivered without a local binary. The control plane does not change; only the collection method does.
Request a technical deep-dive on Versiera for SONiC — we'll walk through the architecture, demo the Network Device page, and discuss integration with your specific switch fleet.
From Raspberry Pi blade clusters to BSD-hardened financial infrastructure — Versiera's 15MB agent and native ARM64 support make it the only enterprise security platform that scales from a $35 compute module all the way to a 100,000-node global fleet.
In 2026, the Raspberry Pi is no longer a hobbyist board — it is the edge gateway for the Software-Defined Factory. High-density blade clusters (Turing Pi, BitScope, Compute Blade) are running K3s, managing PLCs, and processing computer vision at the far edge of enterprise networks. Versiera is the only platform built to secure and govern them at scale.
Pi CM4/CM5 modules power everything from Heathrow Airport's digital signage to industrial PLCs and medical devices. Unlike consumer boards, these system-on-modules are deployed in DIN-rail housings, PoE-powered blade enclosures, and factory carrier boards — with no keyboard, no monitor, and no traditional management plane.
Versiera reads hardware identity from /proc/device-tree/serial-number, maps it to fleet inventory, and provides the single-pane-of-glass view IT managers demand — without requiring BIOS/UEFI/SMBIOS.
The "blade" clusters you see on YouTube are running K3s or MicroK8s. The core problem: most observability agents are too heavy. A 100MB agent on a 2GB RAM node kills the cluster's utility. Versiera's 15MB agent is the Goldilocks solution — providing eBPF pod-to-pod traffic visibility and TCP RTT measurement without the overhead of a service mesh like Istio.
For "bare metal ARM cloud" providers (MiniNodes, Ampere-based hosters) offering low-cost CI/CD environments, Versiera provides the compliance and security layer that makes shared ARM infrastructure enterprise-ready.
Industrial cybersecurity standard IEC 62443 is now being enforced on edge devices deployed in manufacturing, energy, and logistics environments. Standard Raspberry Pi OS is "loose" by default — open SSH, no firewall policy, no account governance.
Versiera's enforcement engine — SSHD hardening, NTP policy, firewall template, prohibited account detection — takes a standard Pi and hardens it to IEC 62443 Security Level 2 (SL2) automatically. A $100 board becomes a compliant industrial asset from first agent check-in.
These manufacturers build the physical infrastructure — but their customers need enterprise-grade management, compliance, and security to make it viable at scale. Versiera is the management fabric that makes their hardware enterprise-ready.
The Turing Pi 2.5 holds four CM4/CM5 or NVIDIA Jetson modules. Moving into "Edge Cloud" — they need management software that handles multi-node clusters elegantly. Versiera's SSH CA and Vault turn a Turing Pi rack into a secure, ephemeral compute cluster.
Built the Los Alamos National Laboratory Pi cluster — thousands of nodes, the gold standard for industrial Pi racking. Their customers are national labs and research institutions who need the exact compliance audit trail and policy enforcement Versiera provides.
Extremely high-density, PoE-powered blade enclosures. Caters to professional DevOps engineers who are exactly the people who would deploy Versiera at work. Fleet-wide SSH CA and eBPF visibility are natural fits for their customers.
Uses Pi Compute Modules in DIN-rail industrial PCs. Sells to manufacturing, energy, and logistics. Their customers need compliance and NTP/Firewall enforcement to meet IEC 62443 — exactly what Versiera delivers out of the box.
Modular, industrial-grade Pi in a PLC form factor. Their customers are OT engineers building factory automation systems who need firewall policy, NTP sync verification, and SSHD hardening on every deployed node — without touching each one manually.
"Powered by Raspberry Pi" accredited. Builds robust AI gateways for edge vision and anomaly detection. With the Pi AI HAT+ (NPU), these run computer vision at the far edge of factories and cell towers — places where Versiera's lightweight agent is the only viable security option.
You provide the blade hardware. Versiera provides the enterprise management layer — SSH CA, Vault, compliance enforcement — that makes your hardware enterprise ready out of the box. OEM licensing available for hardware partners.
Industrial devices are vulnerable once deployed in the field. Versiera's eBPF network observability detects east-west lateral movement within a cluster that traditional perimeter firewalls can't see — the killer feature for securing deployed edge hardware.
Banks, trading platforms, and payment processors run BSD-based firewalls and strict SSHD policies for PCI-DSS compliance. Versiera's pf template management, SSH CA, and cryptographic enforcement provide audit-ready compliance posture across mixed Linux/BSD infrastructure — without a team of engineers maintaining it manually.
Thousands of point-of-sale systems, back-office servers, and loss-prevention edge nodes — across hundreds of locations — running on ARM-based hardware with no on-site IT. Versiera enforces consistent firewall policy, NTP sync, and account governance across every location from a single console. Zero per-site overhead.
Distribution hubs, cold-chain monitoring nodes, and fleet telematics gateways spread across geographic regions. Versiera's agent handles remote configuration enforcement and compliance reporting for ARM nodes deployed at 3PL facilities, customs depots, and last-mile hubs — without VPN access to each site.
Factory-floor edge compute, PLCs with Linux or BSD embedded OS, and SCADA-adjacent systems that are increasingly networked but rarely governed. Versiera brings IEC 62443-aligned compliance enforcement, firewall hardening, and privileged credential management to OT environments that have historically had no security tooling at all.
Tell us about your infrastructure — the OS, the scale, the hardware. We'll show you exactly how Versiera fits.
Start free. Scale when you're ready. Node-based pricing means you pay for what you actually run — and the edge class rate makes securing Raspberry Pi clusters and ARM64 infrastructure economically viable for the first time.
A 500-node Raspberry Pi cluster cost $17,500 to build. Charging server rates for those nodes is a barrier that kills adoption. The Edge Class rate exists because we believe infrastructure security should be economically viable everywhere — not just in the data centre.
Any node that is ARM64 architecture and ≤4GB RAM automatically qualifies. Versiera detects this at agent registration — no manual classification, no support ticket.
A node is any host running the Versiera agent that checks in during a given billing month. Agents that are decommissioned or offline for the full month are not counted. There is no per-CPU or per-core pricing.
Versiera uses graduated bands, not cliff pricing. If you grow from 240 to 260 nodes, only the incremental nodes above 250 move to the Professional rate — you are not retroactively billed at the higher rate for all nodes. You will receive a notification well before approaching a boundary.
The 25-node free tier is fully functional — not a time-limited trial. It is designed to let organizations deploy real agents into a real environment, see real value, and make a purchasing decision based on evidence. For investor due diligence, a sandbox environment with full feature access can be provisioned on request.
Vault (privileged access management, automated credential rotation, time-limited checkout) is a Professional tier feature and above. This is intentional — it is the capability that competes directly with CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault, and its inclusion in the Professional tier is a significant cost advantage over purchasing those products separately.
Hardware manufacturers (blade cluster vendors, industrial compute makers) can license Versiera Community as a bundled management layer in their firmware. End customers then upgrade to Standard or Professional. OEM partners receive a reseller margin and co-marketing support. Contact sales to discuss program terms.
Yes. Versiera is a self-hosted platform — the collector, web console, and database all run on infrastructure you control. There is no Versiera cloud service, no telemetry phone-home, and no dependency on external SaaS. Air-gapped deployment is supported at the Enterprise tier.
Node-based subscription pricing provides predictable, recurring revenue that scales linearly with customer fleet growth. The free Community tier is the lowest-friction entry point in the market — once an agent is deployed, the platform's value is self-evident and the upgrade path is natural.
The Edge Class rate opens an addressable market that no competitor has priced for: millions of ARM64 nodes in retail, logistics, industrial, and edge AI environments currently running with zero security governance because enterprise pricing made it uneconomical.
Deploy the agent on up to 25 nodes and see exactly what Versiera discovers about your fleet — before you spend a dollar.
Versiera is designed to solve the management chaos of large-scale distributed infrastructure. Not a research project, not a pivot — a purpose-built platform engineered to production standards from day one, tested against real enterprise environments running thousands of nodes across mixed OS estates.
Versiera was designed from the ground up to solve the operational and security challenges that practitioners encounter running real-world mixed-OS infrastructure. Not a research project. Not a pivot. A purpose-built platform engineered to production standards from day one.
Infrastructure security should be unified, automated, and accessible — not fragmented across a dozen expensive specialized tools. Versiera is the single platform that covers fleet monitoring, compliance enforcement, SSH PKI, mTLS agent identity, privileged session audit, account governance, and vulnerability management together — across servers, edge devices, and the network itself.
We believe the best security tooling is the kind that runs quietly in the background, continuously, without requiring an army of engineers to maintain it.
Go everywhere. Agents are written in pure Go, compiled to single binaries with no runtime dependency. Platform-specific code is isolated via build tags, not if-trees.
Defense in depth. Every security-critical path has multiple independent safety layers. Compliance is verified, not trusted.
Templates over scripts. Policy is declarative, versioned, and auditable. No runbooks, no ad-hoc commands.
Versiera is designed as a distributed system from the start. The agent, collector, web console, and database are independently deployable — a single server for small environments, fully separated for large ones.
TimescaleDB hypertables handle time-series metrics at scale. PostgreSQL JSONB stores flexible inventory without schema churn. All API paths are stateless.
Versiera is one of the only enterprise infrastructure platforms with first-class support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. This includes native pf template management, NPF compliance, BSD-specific POSIX installer compatibility, and rc.d service integration.
This isn't an afterthought — it's a deliberate focus on an underserved segment of financial infrastructure and security-focused environments.
Agents make outbound HTTPS connections only — no inbound firewall rules required. The collector orchestrates everything: telemetry, compliance, enforcement, signing, and Vault operations.
Every security-critical feature in Versiera is built with multiple independent enforcement layers. The platform is designed so that no single point of failure — not a compromised API, not a rogue DB connection, not a malicious job — can produce an unauthorized outcome.
3-layer cryptographic enforcement for account policy: API gate blocks unauthorized job types, DB constraints enforce creator identity, and agent verification callbacks validate token authenticity and freshness before any action executes.
Dual-hash drift detection distinguishes structural config changes from dynamic state (firewall counters, bruteforce tables). False-positive-free auto-remediation — the system only acts on genuine configuration drift.
Declarative, versioned templates for Firewall, SSHD, DNS, NTP, Syslog, Users, Sudo, service-account governance, service baselines, and the agent's own configuration. Assigned to static or dynamic inventory groups. Full snapshot and backup history for every template version.
AES-256-GCM encrypted credential storage with automated rotation across all 6 platforms. Time-limited checkout, break-glass access, and immutable audit trail. Encryption key never stored in the database.
FreeBSD pf, OpenBSD pf, and NetBSD NPF template management with platform-specific compliance enforcement. OpenBSD's security-hardened defaults are preserved and reinforced, not overridden.
Cryptographic verification at every step of the certificate lifecycle. Ed25519 by default. KRL auto-distribution ensures compromised credentials are blocked within 15 minutes. All CA private keys encrypted at rest.
Whether you're evaluating Versiera for your organization, exploring investment opportunities, or want to discuss an acquisition — we'd love to connect.