As part of the company’s Zero Trust Exchange, Zscaler is introducing three industry-first zero trust network access innovations, which it says will replace legacy firewalls and VPNs.
The offerings — private app protection, integrated deception, and privileged remote access for industrial IoT and OT systems, according to Zscaler, will establish a new standard for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to minimize attack surface and prevent lateral movement.
These new offerings are billed by Zscaler as a solution for organizations who are migrating critical applications to the cloud and are no longer protected inside the secure perimeter of a corporate network.
The offerings build on Zscaler’s Security Service Edge (SSE) framework and strengthen the company’s cloud security platform, according to the company to help solve modern business and security requirements via a holistic zero trust architecture to replace legacy VPNs and provide employees with advanced remote access solutions.
Zscaler is now offering private app protection, which is based on more than a decade of inline inspection expertise in securing internet traffic and SaaS apps. The platform now offers new preventive and proactive security controls to stop compromised users and adversaries from exploiting vulnerable applications and services.
Another new solution is integrated deception, which Zscaler describes as a industry-first offering that evolves lateral movement detection or advanced attacks with built-in private app decoys. This enables the platform to reduce alert fatigue with high-confidence alerts generated by decoys that instantly identify and contain compromised user and insider threats within the company’s platforms.
Lastly, Zscaler is introducing privileged remote access for industrial IoT and OT systems, a new offering that builds on the company’s existing browser-based capabilities and enhances it with RDP and SSH from unmanaged devices and private apps. This is designed to enable secure direct remote access for third-party users.
According to Tony Paterra, Zscaler’s Senior Vice President of Emerging Products, the rise in cyberattacks and data breaches, along with the ongoing shift to the cloud, are necessitating a zero trust architecture.
Paterra said “Our next-gen ZTNA approach is the simplest, most comprehensive approach to securely access private applications and transform legacy network security to minimize the attack surface and shutdown the most advanced attacks,”