The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ is a cloud native platform that connects and secures users, workloads, and devices over any network from any location.

Overview

Unlock the benefits of the Zero Trust Exchange

Reduce business risk

Protect against cyberthreats and data loss.

Improve user productivity

Provide fast, direct, and secure app access and digital experience monitoring.

Reduce cost and complexity

Eliminate management overhead and the cost of point products and appliances.

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A comprehensive cloud platform eliminates point products and reduces operational overhead.

Cyberthreat Protection

Holistic approach to securing users, workloads, and devices

Data Protection

Full TLS/SSL inspection at scale for complete data protection across the SSE platform

Zero Trust Connectivity

Connect to apps, not networks, to prevent lateral movement with ZTNA

Digital Experience Management

Identify and resolve performance issues

Securely connect authorized users, devices, and workloads using business policies

WHY ZERO TRUST

Today’s security needs go beyond legacy technology

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated and users work from anywhere, the hub-and-spoke networks and perimeter security we once relied on—VPNs and firewalls—fail to provide strong cyber and data protection and deliver poor user experience. Stretching your network like this enables cybercriminals to attack and compromise sensitive data.

How enterprises get compromised: four stages

Transform security with confidence

Minimize attack surface

Prevent unauthorized access by making applications invisible to internet scans and users.

Prevent compromise

Inspect all traffic and block risky sites and files.

Eliminate lateral threat movement

Connect authorized users directly to apps.

Stop data loss

Automatically identify and protect sensitive information from unauthorized or risky transfer.

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HOW IT’S DONE

The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Architecture

The Zero Trust Exchange starts with the premise that no user, workload, or device is inherently trustworthy. The platform first verifies identity and context, applies controls, and enforces policy before brokering a secure connection between a user, workload, or device and an application—over any network, from anywhere.

To fully understand the Zero Trust Exchange, it's useful to break it down into individual building blocks that are executed before any connection is established.

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Verify identity and context

Who is connecting?

Verifies the user, device, or workload identity through integrations with third-party identity providers.

What is the access context?

Validates the context of the connection requester, looking at attributes such as role, responsibility, request time, location, and circumstances of the request.

Where is the connection going?

Confirms that the owner has the rights and the destination is known, understood, and contextually categorized for access.

Control risk

Assess risk

Leverages AI to dynamically compute a risk score of the requested access based on factors such as device posture, threats, destination, behavior, and policy.

Prevent compromise

Conducts inline decryption and deep inspection of inbound traffic to identify and block malicious content.

Prevent data loss

Performs inline decryption and deep inspection of outbound traffic to identify sensitive data and prevent exfiltration through inline controls.

Enforce policy

Determines what conditional action to take regarding the requested connection. This action ultimately results in conditional allow or conditional block of the requested access.

Comparing zero trust architecture with next-gen firewall architecture

Firewall-based architecture

Zero attack surface

Firewall/VPNs publish on the internet and can be exploited

Connect users to apps, not the network

App access requires network access, greatly increasing the risk of threats moving laterally

Proxy architecture vs. passthrough

Passthrough architecture has limited controls for preventing malware and data loss

Multitenant architecture

Really just VMs of a single tenant in the cloud

Zero trust architecture

Zero attack surface

Apps aren’t exposed to the internet—what threat actors can’t see, they can’t attack

Connect users to apps, not the network

Direct connections between users and apps remove all risk associated with accessing your network

Proxy architecture vs. passthrough

Proxy architecture enables full content inspection, including SSL, with connections brokered based on identity and context

Multitenant architecture

Cloud native and multitenant, powered by the world’s largest security cloud

SOLUTIONS

The most comprehensive cloud security platform

The Zero Trust Exchange is a comprehensive, integrated zero trust platform that enables security and network transformation for all users, workloads, and IoT/OT devices.