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Zscaler, a pioneer in secure web gateway technology, offers a cloud-delivered and AI-powered cybersecurity solution built on a decade of leadership in the field. With a focus on reducing costs and complexity while enhancing security and user experience, Zscaler’s secure web gateway (SWG) is a cornerstone of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. Acting as an intelligent switchboard between users, the web and SaaS applications, the SWG identifies, inspects and applies policy to every connection inline. By inspecting all internet traffic and implementing user-centric security measures, agencies can eliminate attack surfaces, prevent compromise, halt lateral movement and mitigate the risk of sensitive data loss, embodying the principles of Zero Trust cybersecurity.
ZIA is a secure web gateway (SWG), delivering cloud native, AI-powered cyberthreat protection and zero trust access to the internet and SaaS apps. ZIA enables organizations to securely connect users to the internet and applications, regardless of device, location, or network, improving security while reducing cost and complexity while delivering a better user experience. Zscaler has the ability to detect, control, and analyze tunneling traffic to counteract any threat. ZIA ensures controlled information does not get accessed by unauthroized users on cloud applications.
The Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) service enables organizations to provide access to internal applications and services while ensuring the security of their networks. ZPA is an easier to deploy, more cost-effective, and more secure alternative to VPNs. Unlike VPNs, which require users to connect to your network to access your enterprise applications, ZPA allows you to give users policy-based secure access only to the internal apps they need to get their work done. With ZPA, application access does not require network access. Additionally, ZPA decouples applications from the physical network so you can provide seamless connectivity to private internal applications and assets whether they are in the cloud, the data center, or both. It also adjusts dynamically to network changes, so you can move your resources without impacting user access.
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) is a cloud-based service focused on monitoring and enhancing user experiences within enterprise environments, especially in terms of security and performance. It is part of Zscaler's broader platform, which is known for its Zero Trust architecture and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions. While ZDX is primarily aimed at optimizing the digital experience of end-users, it plays an important role in the broader cybersecurity strategy of organizations. By providing deep visibility into network traffic and application usage, ZDX helps security teams detect unusual patterns that might indicate security issues.
Zscaler is a leader in Zero Trust security, offering the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange to reduce risk across all stages of the attack chain. By minimizing the attack surface, preventing compromise, eliminating lateral movement and stopping data loss, Zscaler provides comprehensive security solutions that hid applications behind Zscaler to make them invisible to the internet, inspect all traffic (including encrypted traffic) to block threats and connect authorized users directly to applications instead of the network.
Zscaler's Secure Service Edge is a security model that consolidates multiple security services at the edge of the network, leveraging cloud-native solutions to provide comprehensive security controls. Zscaler's SSE embodies identity centric security through user authentication and contextual access. While also ensuring least privelege access by micro segmentating traffic through granular policies.
Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) is a secure internet gateway delivered as a cloud service. It inspects all internet-bound traffic to prevent threats, enforce policies, and ensure compliance. ZIA operates on the principles of Zero Trust, ensuring that no entity is trusted by default and verifying every connection.
Zero Trust is a security model that enforces the principle of "never trust, always verify," ensuring that no user or device is trusted by default. ZPA integrates these principles such as secure access without a VPN and micro-segmentation to provide secure, identity-based access to internal applications.
The key components of Zscaler's Zero Trust Architecture work together to ensure secure and efficient access to applications and data, regardless of the user's location. The cloud-native architecture of Zscaler's platform also ensures automatic scalability to handle varying traffic loads without experiencing performance degradation, reliability, and performance so that operations are continuous while also maintaining redudancy and failover capabilities.
Zscaler integrates with various technologies to enhance its Zero Trust security framework, ensuring comprehensive protection and streamlined operations for enterprises. A few of these integrations include Identity and Access Management, Endpoint Security, Security and Event Management (SIEM), and other collaboration tools.
Replaces complex site-to-site VPNs with a direct-to-cloud architecture, enhancing application performance and boosting productivity.
Legacy WAN solutions expose VPN ports to the public internet, increasing vulnerability to attacks. Zscaler’s Zero Trust SD-WAN places private applications behind the Zero Trust Exchange, shielding them from discovery or attacks.
Traditional site-to-site VPNs create large routable networks where a single infected device can compromise the entire network. Zscaler’s Zero Trust SD-WAN establishes connections directly to applications, mitigating the risk of lateral threat movement and enhancing overall security.