The CEO Corner: Leading with Vision

How Zero Trust Helps Secure AI - From Prompt Injection to Hijacked Agents.

Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry sat down with the WSJ Raakhee Mirchandani, at World Economic Forum 2026 in Davos, to discuss how AI is transforming business—and introducing new cyber risks. See what leaders need to know and where to focus first:

 

How zero trust helps deliver visibility and control over AI tools and usage

 

• The evolving threat landscape: prompt injections, data poisoning, and hijacked AI agents

 

• Why users remain the weakest link and how attackers exploit simple gaps

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How Agentic AI Is Changing the Security Playbook

Our CEO, Jay Chaudhry, sat down with WSJ's VP of Custom Programming, Raakhee Mirchandani, at the 2025 WSJ Tech Council Summit in New York City to discuss:

 

• Why an AI platform built on zero trust is essential to combating advanced cyberthreats

 

• How AI is helping both threat actors and defenders alike

 

• Why legacy approaches highlight the need for zero trust architecture

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Reducing Cyber Risk with Zero Trust and AI

WSJ’s Chief Custom Anchor, Phillipa Leighton-Jones and Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry, sat down at the 2025 World Economic Forum to discuss:

 

• How AI is helping threat actors and defenders alike

 

• What makes complexity the enemy of security

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AI Security

AI demands a new approach to security

Security has not kept pace with accelerating AI adoption. Security leaders are struggling to keep track of shadow AI use, secure enterprise AI applications, and ensure compliance.
Zscaler AI Security helps you safeguard your AI journey.

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Gain visibility fast

Understand AI usage and deployed AI infrastructure throughout your enterprise 

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Govern AI access everywhere

Apply consistent access controls across AI apps and safeguard use

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Harden AI systems

Protect AI systems and prompts against exploitation and operational failure with continuous AI red teaming

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Secure AI apps

Protect deployed AI applications with runtime controls

Safeguard your AI journey

Accelerate your AI initiatives with Zscaler AI Protect

Shadow AI, fast-evolving private AI stacks, and fragmented point solutions create blind spots, expose sensitive data, and leave apps vulnerable to malicious attacks, slowing your path to adoption. Zscaler experts recently introduced groundbreaking AI security innovations to help you navigate the evolving AI landscape securely with a unified platform that lets you:

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Get a 360 degree view of your AI footprint
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Govern access to AI apps and prevent misuse
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Prevent malicious attacks like project injections
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Establish guardrails for responsible AI use at scale

Customer Success Stories

See how our customers are transforming their businesses

Telecommunications200,000 Users

“The migration to a modern SASE solution for us improved our security in a number of ways. First, it allowed us to consolidate this large attack surface of a number of VPNs down to one more modern system that is supported by Zscaler for us. We don't have to maintain and patch and service all these different systems.”

Jeff Simon, Senior Vice President & Chief Security Officer, T-Mobile

Finance Tech1,600 Employees16 Countries

“Zscaler is the backbone of our zero trust strategy. It not only helps us be more secure, it allows us to scale securely and innovate without compromise.”

Siva Vadakandra, Director of Security and Infrastructure, Zuora

Healthcare4,000+ Employees47 Locations

“Zscaler is a pioneer in zero trust. It has built its platform from the ground up and understands how it needs to be implemented in environments like ours and other industries as well.”

Dr. Zafar Chaudry, Chief Digital Officer and Chief AI and Information Officer, Seattle Children’s

Entertainment & Hospitality70,000 Employees31 Resorts

“Traditional VPN is definitely a legacy approach, no doubt about it. Shifting that to Zero Trust means we're going to constantly check and validate your posture, your identity. If you look at modern Zero Trust architecture that's cloud-first, you're going to see a shift to walls around every single entity, every single service, system, network.”

Stephen Harrison, CISO, MGM Resorts International

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6 steps to secure and optimize your GenAI usage experience

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The Zscaler Platform

The cybersecurity platform for the AI Age - built on Zero Trust to protect users, workloads, branches and devices through the world’s largest inline security cloud.

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Data Security

Secure data everywhere, with comprehensive visibility and controls across all channels.

AI Security

Embrace AI with confidence using Zscaler AI Protect, a unified solution to secure AI at scale.

Agentic SecOps

Draw on insights from the world’s largest inline security cloud and third-party sources to assess risk and detect and contain breaches.

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