Zscaler, Inc. announced advancements to the Zero Trust Exchange platform to radically
simplify and improve cloud workload security by eliminating lateral movement,
reducing operational cost and complexity, and ensuring consistent threat and
data protection. Zscaler now uniquely offers native integration with AWS
user-defined tags to allow granular Zero Trust VPC segmentation, all ports and
protocols inspection for cloud-based VDI and expansion to GovCloud and China regional
public clouds.
Public cloud
adoption enables digital transformation at scale, driving a massive influx in
cloud-based workloads hosting sensitive communications and data with SaaS
applications or workloads in multiple public clouds or data centers. As a
result, securing these mission-critical workloads is vital for enterprises to
ensure their continued success and protect sensitive data. An IDG report states
that 35% of customers struggle with increased costs in cloud
management and cloud security. Securing cloud workloads without sacrificing
protections, expanding the attack surface, increasing operational overhead or
degrading performance is a major challenge for organizations embarking on their
digital transformation initiatives.
"As a leader
in the global energy industry, NOV is leveraging the public cloud to enable our
customers to safely produce abundant energy while minimizing environmental
impact. Securing our applications and workloads deployed in the public cloud is
a paramount priority for us," said Patricia Gonzalez-Clark, VP of IT Services
at NOV. "Using Zscaler technologies, we have transformed and modernized our
network and security stack and have benefited immensely from reduced complexity
in our environment. Now, we continue our journey with Zscaler by selecting
their technologies to secure our workloads across our multi-cloud environments
to transform security in the cloud."
New
advancements in Zscaler Workload Communications remove operational complexity,
increase security and expand cloud coverage:
- Workload Segmentation using User-Defined Tags: On AWS, Zscaler uniquely enables creating custom
security groups based on user-defined tags and native attributes.
Supporting the AWS maximum tag limit, organizations can leverage their
existing workload identities for VPC or network segmentation within the
public cloud and eliminate the operational complexity involved in managing
security policies based on IP Addresses, FQDNs, and CIDR blocks.
- Real Time Resource Discovery: Enabling custom-groups, Zscaler's native integration
with AWS automatically discovers VPCs, subnets, and EC2 resources,
including their associated tags and attributes in real-time. Enterprises
can now effortlessly integrate security definitions based on cloud
attributes, eliminating the need for manual configurations.
- Multi-Session VDI Security: An industry first, Zscaler inspects all ports and
protocols for multi-session, non-persistent VDI deployments in the public
cloud. Enterprises can now apply granular threat and data protection
policies per individual user session, enabling enterprises to maintain
common security policies across all environments.
- Expanded Cloud Coverage: Workload Communications now supports Google Cloud
Platform (GCP), plus Azure China Regions and AWS GovCloud with FedRAMP
certification. With AWS, Azure, and now expanded cloud support,
enterprises can secure their cloud workloads consistently and effectively
while maintaining the flexibility of public cloud choice.
"As customers accelerate the adoption of public
cloud infrastructure they require a simple and effective cloud security
platform to protect their cloud workloads and applications. Legacy
architectures built with virtual network and security appliances, or
backhauling traffic to data centers, fail to deliver consistent cyber defense
and add operational complexity and cost," said Dhawal Sharma, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Zscaler. "These new innovations radically
simplify cloud workload connectivity and deliver cyber security including TLS
inspection, data protection, and segmentation at cloud scale and cloud speed.
Customers can use the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform to connect and
protect workloads across Multi-cloud, Hybrid and private cloud, Government
Cloud, and Specialist Availability