Zscaler

Zscaler is the world's leading cloud-native security platform company, pioneering the Zero Trust Exchange architecture that fundamentally reimagines how organizations connect users, devices, and applications securely in a cloud-first world. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Zscaler operates one of the largest inline security clouds in the world, processing over 300 billion transactions daily across more than 150 data centers in 185 countries.

The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company's cloud platform that replaces traditional network security architectures built around perimeter firewalls and VPNs. Instead of routing all traffic through a central network choke point, the Zero Trust Exchange connects users and workloads directly to applications using encrypted micro-tunnels, ensuring that no user or device is implicitly trusted and every access request is continuously verified based on identity, device posture, application context, and risk signals.

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) is a secure web gateway and cloud firewall delivered as a service, providing comprehensive protection for users accessing the internet regardless of their location. ZIA includes SSL/TLS inspection, URL filtering, cloud sandbox analysis, data loss prevention, and advanced threat protection capabilities, all enforced inline on the actual traffic rather than relying on endpoint agents alone.

Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) provides secure zero trust access to private applications hosted in data centers or public clouds, replacing traditional VPN solutions. ZPA creates direct, application-level connections between users and specific applications without ever placing users on the corporate network, dramatically reducing the attack surface compared to VPN-based remote access architectures.

Zscaler for Workloads extends zero trust principles to cloud workload communications, securing east-west traffic between applications running in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments. Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) provides end-to-end visibility into user experience quality for SaaS applications, cloud services, and private applications, helping IT teams proactively identify and resolve performance issues before users are impacted.