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Zscaler Cloud Security for Government
Enabling zero trust cloud transformation in alignment with executive orders from President Biden and CISA
To keep up with dynamic and increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats, in 2021, the White House published an executive order for cloud security and zero trust:
[T]he Federal Government must take decisive steps to modernize its approach to cybersecurity, including by increasing the Federal Government’s visibility into threats, while protecting privacy and civil liberties. The Federal Government must adopt security best practices; advance toward Zero Trust Architecture; accelerate movement to secure cloud services, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS); centralize and streamline access to cybersecurity data to drive analytics for identifying and managing cybersecurity risks; and invest in both technology and personnel to match these modernization goals.
Zscaler helps agencies achieve the goals of the Executive Order
The Zscaler Government Cloud provides agencies with secure access to the internet and cloud applications, supporting guidance from CISA, DISA, NIST, and TIC 3.0.
It helps agencies improve security, reduce costs and complexity, and deliver a better user experience.
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Treat every user, device, application/workload, and data flow as untrusted. Authenticate and explicitly authorize each to the least privilege required using dynamic security policies.
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Consciously operate and defend resources with the assumption that an adversary already has presence within the environment. Deny by default and heavily scrutinize all users, devices, data flows, and requests for access. Log, inspect, and continuously monitor all configuration changes, resource accesses, and network traffic for suspicious activity.
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Access to all resources should be conducted in a consistent and secure manner using multiple attributes (dynamic and static) to derive confidence levels for contextual access decisions to resources.
Accelerate policy-making and simplify microsegmentation: automatically create user and app policies via APIs, and auto-segment app workloads with machine learning.
Make apps invisible and accessible only by authorized users via the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™—unlike traditional firewalls that expose your apps to the open internet.
Perform full content inspection, even on TLS/SSL traffic, for effective threat protection and data loss prevention beyond the limits of next-gen firewalls.
Zscaler enables agencies to adhere to all NIST zero trust guidelines
- All data sources and computing services need to be considered resources.
- All communication needs to be secured regardless of network location.
- Access to individual enterprise resources is granted on a per-session basis.
- Access to resources is determined by dynamic policy—including the observable state of client identity, application, and the requesting asset—and may include other behavioral attributes.
- The enterprise ensures that all owned and associated devices are in the most secure state possible, and monitors assets to ensure that they remain in the most secure state possible.
- All resource authentication and authorization are dynamic and strictly enforced before access is allowed.
Zscaler meets the highest standards of government compliance with key certifications
Experience the power of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange
A comprehensive cloud platform eliminates point products and reduces operational overhead.
01 Cyberthreat Protection
Holistic approach to securing users, workloads, and devices
02 Data Protection
Full TLS/SSL inspection at scale for complete data protection across the SSE platform
03 Zero Trust Connectivity
Connect to apps, not networks, to prevent lateral movement with ZTNA
04 Digital Experience Management
Identify and resolve performance issues