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Zscaler Cloud Platform
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Secure Digital Transformation is a Winning Strategy

Earlier this month, when I began my journey as chief marketing officer at Zscaler, I knew that I was becoming part of a visionary organization. Zscaler’s approach to securing the enterprise in the era of cloud and mobility was a radical departure from the ways it had been done in the past. In the 12 years since the company was founded, Zscaler has ...
Ransomware
Zscaler Cloud Platform
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Coverage Advisory for Ransomware Activity Targeting Healthcare and Public Health Sector

Background A joint cybersecurity advisory was released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) related to an increased cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers from ransomware, notably Ryuk and Conti Wha...
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Zscaler Cloud Platform
4 Min read

VPNs: The Biggest Threat to Your Industrial Control System

Is zero trust access the answer to the growing problem of VPN access to industrial control systems? I think so, and I’m not the only one. What makes VPNs dangerous Virtual private networks (VPNs) are used to extend network connectivity between users and applications or industrial control systems (ICSs). So it is a natural progression for I...
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Zscaler Cloud Platform
3 Min read

A Crowning Achievement: Cyber Security Essentials Certification in the UK

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is on a mission to make the UK the safest place to live and work online. I’m excited to say that Zscaler has joined the NCSC’s effort by attaining the organization’s Cyber Security Essentials certification in the UK. This certification is the latest achievement in Zscaler’s compliance expansion initiative t...
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Zscaler Cloud Platform
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ZPA and CrowdStrike: What This New Device Health Integration Means for You

Summary: Zscaler and CrowdStrike announced a new device health integration Device health score will be used to automatically update ZPA access policies Joint customers of ZPA and CrowdStrike ZTA can leverage it Adopting a zero trust model is highly sought after and much talked about—especially in the context of remote work. A majorit...
ransomware
Zscaler Cloud Platform
4 Min read

Ransomware’s Pivot: A Business School Case Study

There are very few technology companies that successfully pivot their business strategy to adapt to a macro paradigm shift. A classic case study in adapting to changing market conditions is the Netflix video streaming service. Home video rentals evolved from local mom-and-pop video rental stores, to chains like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, to D...
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Zscaler Cloud Platform
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Zero Trust, Microsegmentation, and Cloud Security

The benefits of the cloud are seemingly endless. You can access it from anywhere, scalability is infinite, and any changes that you make are applied everywhere, instantaneously. But migrating to the cloud presents challenges with legacy architectures, particularly security appliances protecting application-to-application traffic. Applications c...
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Zscaler Cloud Platform
3 Min read

An Introduction to Zero Trust Network Access

Zero trust is more important now than ever before. With a newly mobile workforce, an increased urgency for cloud, and an increase in phishing and ransomware attacks, zero trust has become the next critical step in digital transformation for many. In fact, according to a recent survey conducted by Microsoft, 51 percent of business leaders are acc...
DP challenges
Zscaler Cloud Platform
4 Min read

Five Data Protection Challenges and How to Combat Them

Five challenges As the modern workforce evolves and continues to trend toward digital business models, company data and applications are migrating to the cloud from on-premise data centers. While this evolution gives individuals and lines of business (LOBs) more control, reduces cost, and enables businesses to run more efficiently than ever befo...
microsegmentation
Zscaler Cloud Platform
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How Microsegmentation Differs from Network Segmentation

Microsegmentation as both a term and a network security concept has been in the playbooks for years. Its main purpose is to reduce the network attack surface by limiting east-west communication through the application of granular security controls at the workload level. Laid out this way, it’s pretty easy to understand what microsegmentation is. Ho...

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