Zscaler Releases New Data Protection Innovations in Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange

Industry’s Leading Cloud Security Platform Expands Data Protection and Access to Business Applications for the Work-from-Anywhere Era

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zscaler, Inc., the leader in cloud security, today announced new data protection innovations in the Zscaler^TM Zero Trust Exchange that protect organizations in the work-from-anywhere era by securely connecting users, devices, and applications. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, built on a Secure Access Services Edge (SASE) framework, expanded its data protection capabilities with a suite of services that are now generally available. These services include Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) for SaaS applications, and Cloud Browser Isolation.

Legacy security offerings were designed decades ago to create network based perimeters that connect people in an office to applications in a data center on a corporate network. The world was already trending to a work-from-anywhere environment with mobile users and applications delivered through the cloud, but the global pandemic rapidly accelerated this digital transformation.

The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange was built with a new approach that creates zero trust connections between the users and applications directly to solve this unique challenge. As a scalable, cloud-native platform, it enables digital transformation by securely connecting users, devices, and applications anywhere, without relying on network-wide access. This platform is delivered by five key architecture attributes, unique to the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, that together enable organizations to provide strong security and a great user experience to their employees and customers. The attributes are:

• Zero attack surface to ensure that organizations’ infrastructure and applications are hidden from discovery and attack.
• Connect a user to an application, not a network to prevent unsafe connections and attacks that spread across an organization by only allowing users to access the intended application instead of  relying on network-based access.
• Multi-tenant architecture, built from the ground up, for the scale, reliability and privacy a cloud and mobile world now demands.
• Proxy architecture, not pass-through to check for encrypted threats and data exposure in real time with machine learning and actively prevent their impacts from occurring.
• Secure access service edge (SASE) architecture to improve the user experience with a proprietary cloud distributed across 150+ locations globally so connections and security happen locally, which reduces latency and improves security response times.

“Ciena was already on the path to digital transformation, but when our entire workforce shifted to working remotely almost overnight, it would have been a nearly impossible networking and security challenge if not for Zscaler,” said Craig Williams, Chief Information Officer of Ciena. “Our teams can quickly and securely use the internet and any business application from anywhere thanks to the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. The platform has helped us to create a more agile, resilient, and secure business during this unprecedented time.”