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Zscaler Cloud Platform
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Taking the Micromanagement out of Microsegmentation

Enterprise security teams have long been looking for more effective solutions to protect their cloud and data center environments. Once secured solely by perimeter-based technologies, today’s network environments are decidedly past the point of relying on controls at the edges. Out of this need to protect internal communication and east-west traffi...
a novel concept
Zscaler Cloud Platform
6 Min read

A Novel Concept: Enabling Companies To Do What They’re Supposed To Do.

This post also appeared on LinkedIn. As an F500-company leader and former management consultant, I’ve spent much of my IT professional career adapting enterprise infrastructure to meet “digital transformation” challenges. I’ve come to question the term “digital transformation.” As a term of art, it isn’t particularly specific. It can mean differ...
abstract
Zscaler Cloud Platform
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Diagnosing Network Performance Problems in the Work-from-Anywhere Enterprise

Whether IT likes it or not, home networks and local internet service providers (ISP) are now part of the corporate network infrastructure. IT teams must monitor and diagnose performance issues that involve an employee’s home network. The new reality requires IT to shed traditional assumptions that people are in the office and apps are in the data c...
microsegmentation
Zscaler Cloud Platform
5 Min read

Microsegmentation 101

Microsegmentation can be a very effective cybersecurity strategy, helping to stop lateral threat movement, thereby minimizing the blast radius and damage caused by a cybersecurity incident. Despite its huge potential, several key challenges have kept microsegmentation from wider adoption. Why do we need microsegmentation? Most high-profil...
high dive
Zscaler Cloud Platform
6 Min read

Are you Consistent, Confident, or Courageous? Diving into the Zero Trust Deep-End.

This post also appeared on LinkedIn. The 2020 Gartner Zero Trust Market Guide predicts that in just two years, 80 percent of businesses will access new digital applications using Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). The report also declares that ZTNA security solutions will soon supplant legacy security solutions such as virtual private networks (V...
post covid
Zscaler Cloud Platform
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Year One, A.C. (“After COVID”): What’s Next for Cyber Professionals in the New World?

I used to work in an office. Now—like most enterprise IT professionals—I work from the kitchen. Or my guest room. Or the patio. Or a socially-distanced “anywhere” with good Wi-Fi. COVID-19 has forced us all to change how we look at, design for, and enable remote access to applications, data, and information resources for our employees. And just...
abstract attack surface
Zscaler Cloud Platform
2 Min read

Eighty-Seven Percent of Your Network Paths are Only Used by Attackers

The first phase of deploying microsegmentation on a corporate network involves taking full inventory of your environment, mapping workload communication paths, and then analyzing that data to determine what needs to be allowed and which paths should be eliminated. This is typically a complicated, time-consuming process for security teams. (On the o...
hacked
Zscaler Cloud Platform
4 Min read

Why “Preparing for Ransomware” Shouldn’t Assume its Inevitability

This post also appeared on LinkedIn. In a 1991 Saturday Night Live sketch, host Joe Mantegna portrayed a New York City official tasked with reducing violent crime. He offered brochures titled "So, You've Been Shot," "So, You've Been Stabbed," and "So, You've Been Doused with Gasoline and Set on Fire." The satiric message: Being the victim of cri...
mallet
Zscaler Cloud Platform
5 Min read

No More Security vs. User Experience: How a Zoom Meeting Transformed our Entire Network

This post also appeared on LinkedIn. In November of 2019 (back before the pandemic lockdown), I was the CISO for an international professional services organization. My most important strategic project at that time was creating the “always-on VPN.” What was this top-tier objective? An attempt to modernize our global secure remote access. Why? Wi...
handshake
Zscaler Cloud Platform
4 Min read

Zscaler Recognized as a Microsoft Security 20/20 Partner Awards Finalist for Zero Trust Champion and Security ISV of the Year

This week, Microsoft announced that it had chosen its Microsoft Security 20/20 Partner Awards Finalists for the year, a prestigious classification in the Microsoft partner community. I am honored to announce that Zscaler has been chosen as a finalist in two categories: Security ISV of the Year (which Zscaler won last year); and Zero Trust ...

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