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Peter Smith

VP, Secure Workload Communication Peter Smith is the Vice President of Secure Workload Communications at Zscaler. Peter, a serial entrepreneur, was previously the Founder and CEO of Edgewise, a pioneer in zero trust segmentation for cloud and data centers, acquired by Zscaler in 2020. Peter regularly advises leading customers on transforming their infrastructure and security architecture. Peter holds several zero trust-related patents and is a frequent speaker on zero trust strategy and implementation.
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Zscaler Cloud Platform
6 Min read

Overcoming the Five Headwinds to Microsegmentation

In the past, corporate networks were flat, open places with unfettered access. Anything connected to the corporate LAN was assumed to be inherently good. Sure, there were firewalls between the “inside” and the “outside” ...
Zero trust based on identity
Zscaler Cloud Platform
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Why Identity is Critical for Zero Trust

A few years back, few companies were talking about zero trust, a concept first teased by the Jericho Forum in the early 2000s and later codified by John Kindervag (then at Forrester) at the end of the decade. By 2018, ze...
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CIO Insights
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Identity-Based Microsegmentation is Foundational to Cloud Security: Don’t Get Spoofed.

Identity-based microsegmentation has rapidly become accepted as a best practice for cloud security and enabling zero trust. In Gartner’s April 2020 report, Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (Gartner s...

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