Private Equity
Preserve and create value with a cyber-resilient architecture
Mitigate cyber risk, accelerate AI adoption safely, and improve EBITDA across your portfolio
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The Problem
Private equity firms face new risks
Companies worldwide are dealing with advanced cyberattacks involving nation-states and organized cybercriminals. Recent studies have shown that threat actors can penetrate 93% of company networks, often in just two days.
Data breaches and ransomware attacks on public companies tend to get more attention, but the risks are just as great for private equity firms. Their portfolio companies—often mid-market and less cyber-sophisticated—are also frequent targets.
- Financial services are 300x more likely to be attacked than other industries
- 68% of business leaders believe their companies’ cyber risks are growing
- Data breaches now cost an average $4.88 million globally—$9.36 million in the US
- Portfolio companies are rapidly adopting generative AI tools without IT oversight — creating shadow AI risks that traditional security tools can't see or control.
Solution Overview
Assess
Identify core PE firm/PortCo assets to protect
Secure
Deploy Zscaler to secure your environment/enable integration, discover unsanctioned AI apps, and block data loss across 250+ GenAI applications.
Enhance
Boost the security and cyber maturity of PE firms and PortCos
Innovate
Use Zscaler's Zero Trust Platform for Agentic AI to secure AI agent communications and prepare portfolio companies for AI-driven transformation.
Benefits
We work with 6 of the top 10 global private equity firms to:
Zscaler AI Protect prevents data loss across GenAI workflows — without slowing productivity.
Mitigate and control cyber risk with turnkey, cloud native security
Increase cyber resiliency to better detect, prevent, and respond to threats
Improve EBITDA and digital value creation by consolidating point solutions to simplify network and security stacks
Accelerate time to value for platform, add-on, and carve-out transactions with rapid integration to achieve scale and time to market
Use Cases
Modernize and accelerate your secure transformation journey
Protect your most critical assets—employees and investors
Enable your workforce to focus on deal value vs. operations
Identify value creation and optimization opportunities
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