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Tackling Patch Management with Zero Trust

For some security professionals, patch management can be boiled down to the popular Nike slogan: Just Do It. But as anyone who has ever managed a network knows, patch management isn’t as simple as a catchy phrase. This is not to say that there aren’t plenty of cases where patches for critical vulnerabilities could be easily applied and aren’t, but ...
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The Zscaler Data Protection Tour: How to Find and Stop Sensitive Data Loss

In this blog series, we are taking our readers on a tour of various challenges to enterprise data security. As we do so, we will detail the ins and outs of each subject, describe why they all matter when it comes to keeping sensitive information safe, and explain how your organization can thoroughly and easily address each use case with Zscaler tec...
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Technology as a Driver, Not an Inhibitor, of Change

Companies striving to implement cloud applications that are always available, from anywhere, may hit several stumbling blocks. Often, they are held back by their existing IT architectures or IT budgets that are set from a purely technological perspective. Digital transformation delivers far-reaching business benefits, which is how investments ne...
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Overcoming the Five Headwinds to Microsegmentation

This post was originally published on the EdgeWise Networks site. EdgeWise was acquired by Zscaler in May 2020. 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” of the network ...
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Zscaler Welcomes Passage of Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill to Bolster US Cybersecurity

President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law earlier this week, bringing new funding to strengthen cyber defenses for transportation, public water systems, the energy grid, and state and local government agencies. The infrastructure bill includes numerous provisions to bolster cybersecurity, including: $1 bill...
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Worried About Your VPN? Zero Trust is the Answer

If you’re using VPN and legacy firewalls, it’s time to reconsider. Here’s why: VPNs are slow, vulnerable, and downright dangerous. With the massive adoption of remote work, a spotlight has been put on poor user experience and the continued discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities that come with legacy VPNs. IT and security leaders are looking for a...
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Start Your Zero Trust Journey with These Suggestions from Gartner

Whether you are new to the cloud security space and trying to figure out the latest security trends or you have an extensive background in the industry with years of experience, you've certainly come across the term "zero trust," but may be confused by the explosive usage of this term, similar to other security buzzwords like ransomware, spoofing, ...
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CNAPP and SASE: Two Platforms to Rule Them All

In the early days of a new market in B2B information technology, it is common for the vendor community to step up with dozens of point products, each with their own points of differentiation within their niche. Nowhere is this phenomenon more obvious right now than in public cloud security, where there is a nearly incomprehensible acronym soup of s...
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Seeing the Invisible - Performance Monitoring in a Zero Trust World

Performance monitoring of private applications accessed remotely via VPN has always been a challenge. The encrypted tunnel between the user and the data center blocked the ability to truly understand what might have been causing performance issues on those network connections. Without a proper flashlight, this dark tunnel often hid the root cause o...
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Zero Trust: The Key to OT Security Modernization

Today, secure remote access has not only become paramount to business continuity on the IT side, but also on the OT side where even short-lived disruptions to factory operations and production lines can show up in the bottom line. Many OT vendors and services firms saw the pandemic as the catalyst for accelerating digital transformation and quickly...

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