Zscaler + Cognizant: Securing the AI-Driven Enterprise
Cognizant delivers secure business agility, reducing technical debt and accelerating digital transformation through intelligent, AI-powered Zero Trust.
Partnership Overview
Zero Trust Delivered Globally
As the 2025 Zscaler Americas Zero Trust Partner of the Year, Cognizant combines global engineering excellence with the power of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ to modernize enterprise security. We don't just migrate you to the cloud; we build a resilient, identity-centric foundation that eliminates legacy complexity (VPNs/Firewalls) and secure every user, workload, and IoT/OT device across your global footprint.
Why Cognizant + Zscaler?
Our partnership delivers a strategic approach to security that focuses on long-term business outcomes: reducing risk, lowering TCO, and enabling continuous innovation.
AI-Driven Resilience with Cognizant Neuro® AI
We are the only GSI to integrate Cognizant Neuro® AI with Zscaler’s platform, providing predictive risk quantification and automated threat response that evolves with your business.
Proven Scale at Speed
With over 1,000 Zscaler-certified professionals and 25+ successful global migrations, we have the specialized expertise to handle the most complex, multi-region enterprise environments.
Industry-First Blueprints
We offer co-developed security reference architecture tailored for highly regulated sectors.
Example: Secure digital transformation for 4 of the top 5 global pharmaceutical companies.
Full-Lifecycle Managed Services
Beyond deployment, Cognizant provides 24/7 global managed services, ensuring your Zero Trust environment is continuously optimized, patched, and performing at peak efficiency.
Strategic Solution Pillars
Joint Solution Areas
Modernize your network with a unified SASE architecture. We replace aging infrastructure with a cloud-native platform that improves user experience while providing superior protection against lateral threat movement.
Secure the "edge" of your business. Our joint solutions provide zero trust architecture for retail branches, factories, and remote offices, ensuring that local IoT/OT devices are protected without the need for complex hardware.
Gain total visibility across multi-cloud environments. We streamline policy management and secure application access, allowing your teams to innovate safely in the cloud without exposing the network.
Accelerate your journey with a high-value assessment session. Our experts will identify your current security gaps and provide a clear, 12-month roadmap to Zero Trust maturity.
Joint Offerings
Security for AI
Adopt AI with confidence, not risk. Cognizant’s Security for AI offering leverages Zscaler stack to enable AI discovery, inventory, and continuous risk assessment for providing AI‑specific threat detection, automated safety testing, adversarial evaluation, and runtime protection to secure models, data flows, and agent behaviour.
Data Security & Posture Management
Take control of sensitive data sprawl across your cloud estate. We discover, classify, and continuously monitor your data stores- surfacing misconfigurations, enforcing access governance, and remediating compliance gaps before they become breaches.
Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness
Protect your data from tomorrow's quantum threats today. We assess your cryptographic exposure, enable hybrid key exchange with quantum-safe algorithms, and prepare your infrastructure for post-quantum digital signatures enabling encrypted data stays secure long after Q-Day.
Cognizant has been recognized as Zscaler’s AMS Zero Trust Partner of the Year two consecutive years - 2024 & 2025.
The award celebrates partners who demonstrate strong leadership, innovation, and execution in helping clients modernize security and achieve measurable outcomes using the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Platform™.
Fast-Track Your Zero Trust Maturity Today
Ready to modernize your enterprise? Contact our joint experts to learn how Cognizant and Zscaler can accelerate your journey to a secure, AI-native future.