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Christopher Hines

Director of Product & Solutions Marketing, ZPA / Zscaler Client Connector Chris Hines is Director of Product Marketing for ZPA, ZB2B and Zscaler Client Connector. He’s worked at Zscaler for over 3 years driving go to market, messaging, content creation, and enablement for Zscaler’s private access services. Hines has previously worked at Unicorn container company Docker, Bitglass, and EMC.
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Events
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Join Us Live: Seize the Zero Trust Moment.

Accelerate digital transformation with confidence. Join Zscaler for Seize the Zero Trust Moment: a virtual broadcast covering the latest Zscaler innovations, how to implement and leverage zero trust to improve business a...
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Hybrid Workforce
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Zero Trust: The Key to Securing Business Now and in the Post-COVID World

Foreword: First, to the IT security leaders who spent countless hours responding to the need to secure a new, remote workforce during the pandemic - congratulations for what I’m sure, for many of you, was one of the most...
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Zero Trust Architecture
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These Two Identity Juggernauts Identified Zscaler as a Leader in Zero Trust for Remote Work

Security. Communication. Collaboration. These were the three areas that companies invested in most since the beginning of last year. Don’t just take my word for it— reports from both Microsoft and Okta provide insight...
These Four Enhancements Make ZPA Even Better for Supporting Work-from-Anywhere
Hybrid Workforce
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These Four Enhancements Make ZPA Even Better for Supporting Work-from-Anywhere

As users work remotely, the quality of their experience when accessing private applications is an absolute priority. A better experience equals better productivity. Since COVID-19, the number of unique Zscaler Private...
A New Paradigm Shift Threatens the Fate of VPN
Zero Trust Architecture
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A New Paradigm Shift Threatens the Fate of VPN

If you’d told me five months ago that today I would be solely working out of my home office in San Jose, California, I would have said you were crazy. As each month has passed, I have begun to realize that there is a ver...
Gartner ZTNA and Enabling the “Work From Anywhere” Reality
Hybrid Workforce
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Gartner ZTNA and Enabling the “Work From Anywhere” Reality

Summary The need to enable work from anywhere is accelerating adoption of ZTNA services Gartner's newly released new guidance around ZTNA technologies Five considerations for selecting a ZTNA service T...
Zero Trust and its Role in Securing the New Normal
Zero Trust Architecture
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Zero Trust and its Role in Securing the New Normal

As the global crisis around COVID-19 continues, security teams have been forced to adapt to a rapidly evolving security landscape. Schools, businesses, and healthcare organizations are all getting work done from home on ...
Your Workforce. Powered by You.
Hybrid Workforce
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Your Workforce. Powered by You.

Today, the enterprise looks very different from a decade ago. With users leaving the office to work from anywhere, and more private applications moving to the cloud than ever before, today’s attack surface is the largest...
Zscaler at RSA: They Can’t Attack What They Can’t See
Events
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Zscaler at RSA: They Can’t Attack What They Can’t See

Now that private apps are moving to public clouds, and users are accessing them from locations all around the world, on a variety of devices, the classic perimeter has changed. You'll probably hear a lot of vendors at RS...
Remote Access VPNs Have Ransomware on Their Hands
Ransomware
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Remote Access VPNs Have Ransomware on Their Hands

Another day and, unfortunately, another cyberattack accidentally introduced by VPN. According to a Computer Weekly article, Travelex was hit by Sodinokibi ransomware, which disabled the foreign exchange company’s IT s...
Why Zero Trust is Good for Business, Not Just Security
Zero Trust Architecture
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Why Zero Trust is Good for Business, Not Just Security

Humans don’t often like the idea of change. So, when the business asks IT leaders to adopt cloud quickly, and reduce business risk while doing so, a natural fear arises. How do I adapt? Am I relevant in a world that is m...
2019 Zero Trust Adoption Report: What Your Peers are Doing Around Zero Trust
Zero Trust Architecture
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2019 Zero Trust Adoption Report: What Your Peers are Doing Around Zero Trust

If you read the title of this blog and thought, “Great…another industry blog talking about zero trust,” I totally get it. But I promise you, this is different. Earlier this year, Cybersecurity Insiders surveyed more t...
Zero trust: ten years later. Is it time to think bigger?
Zero Trust Architecture
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Zero trust: ten years later. Is it time to think bigger?

As the concept of zero trust turns 10 years old, many of us in cybersecurity are asking two key questions: Why is zero trust popping up so much? Is zero trust something we believe we can implement? Chase Cun...
SDP, ZTNA, and CARTA: Making sense of the zero trust security buzz
Zero Trust Architecture
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SDP, ZTNA, and CARTA: Making sense of the zero trust security buzz

SDP and ZTNA and CARTA. Oh my! Ok, so my ditty doesn’t have quite the same ring as the memorable song from The Wizard of Oz. But the anxiety exhibited in that refrain can certainly be applied to my digital version. ...
ZTNA technologies: What they are, why now, and how to choose
Zero Trust Architecture
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ZTNA technologies: What they are, why now, and how to choose

Gartner predicts that by 2023, 60 percent of enterprises will phase out most of their remote access virtual private networks (VPNs) in favor of zero trust network access (ZTNA) solutions. The Gartner team further predict...
Zero trust vs. Gartner CARTA. Is one actually part of the other?
Zero Trust Architecture
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Zero trust vs. Gartner CARTA. Is one actually part of the other?

Zero trust and CARTA. These are two of the biggest topics being talked about in the security world. If you were at RSA earlier this year you were probably hard-pressed to find a booth without zero trust plastered all ove...
With SDP, the Switchboard is Making a Comeback
Zero Trust Architecture
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With SDP, the Switchboard is Making a Comeback

Who would have thought that modern, software-defined access technology like zero trust network access (ZTNA), also known as a software-defined perimeter (SDP), would harken back to the days of the switchboard? Back in...
What if application access no longer required network access?
Zero Trust Architecture
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What if application access no longer required network access?

This is the question that we ask our customers when they are interested in securing access to private applications. Today, many enterprises are using the network-centric technology that was built to connect users to netw...
Zero trust security: 5 reasons it’s not about firewalls and passwords
Zero Trust Architecture
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Zero Trust Security: 5 Reasons it’s Not About Firewalls and Passwords

Next-gen firewall appliances have been used for years to secure the network perimeter, allowing admins to set policies that determine who can access the network. Identity provider (IDP) services provision users and make ...
Zero trust: You’ve heard of it, now make it a reality
Zero Trust Architecture
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Zero trust: You’ve heard of it, now make it a reality

Eight years ago, a new security strategy called “zero trust” was introduced to the world by a well-known analyst at Forrester. At the time, the strategy seemed to one-up its predecessor, the “least privilege” security mo...
Google is leveraging a zero-trust security model and so can you
Zero Trust Architecture
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Google is leveraging a zero-trust security model and so can you

On August 9, 2006, something interesting happened at a technology conference. During an interview, then Google CEO Eric Schmidt introduced the term “cloud computing” as a new model for data services (http://www.google.co...
Accelerating Your Move to Cloud is Easier with SDP
Zero Trust Architecture
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Accelerating Your Move to Cloud is Easier with SDP

In my previous blog I talked about how enterprises can use the software-defined access technologies to mitigate risk by reducing the exposure created by traditional remote access technologies. Now, we’ll discuss the bene...
Mitigating Risk via the Software-Defined Perimeter
Zero Trust Architecture
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Mitigating Risk via the Software-Defined Perimeter

Since the 1990s the focus on network security has hinged on one very important thing. Protect internal services from external threats. This was first accomplished by building a protected perimeter around the network and ...
Did “Bomb Cyclone” Freeze User Productivity?
Security Insights
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Did “Bomb Cyclone” Freeze User Productivity?

Over the past few days, the east coast has been bombarded with what has now been dubbed “Bomb Cyclone,” one of the worst winter storms in recorded history. Having already brought the temperature down to historic lows and...

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