Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange has been improved to help organisations protect workloads in multi-cloud environments while simplifying connectivity and improving application performance.
Zscaler has announced the availability of its new Workload Communications solution, which is part of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and extends Zero Trust security to workloads and applications hosted in public clouds. The cloud-native platform from Zscaler eliminates attack surfaces, limits lateral threat movement, inhibits compromise of workloads, and protects data loss. It also helps IT teams in simplifying multi-cloud workload connectivity by moving away from traditional IP-based routing and VPNs between cloud environments, allowing enterprises to accelerate their cloud transformation initiatives.
As enterprise workloads are distributed across different regions and cloud providers, legacy mesh networks are getting more expensive, difficult to implement, scale, and manage. Legacy vendors’ attempts to adapt antiquated, castle-and-moat VPN and firewall architectures to the public cloud have resulted in a record number of cybersecurity attacks, as well as networking and application performance challenges for enterprises. As a result, enterprises should reconsider their strategy to securing and connecting cloud-based applications, and consider implementing a new architecture capable of simplifying multi-cloud connectivity, elevate application performance, and provide comprehensive security. Recent findings from the Zscaler ThreatLabZ research team highlight these rising threats posed by unsecured cloud workloads in the cloud and the necessity for inspection of all content including encrypted traffic.
Zscaler has extended its Zero Trust Exchange to deliver the industry’s first Zero Trust for cloud workloads solution, which protects cloud-to-internet, cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-data centre, and intra-cloud communications. Acting as an intelligent switchboard, traffic is routed to the Zscaler platform, where connections are brokered using business policies based on identity and context to connect workloads directly to other workloads without requiring access to the corporate network. Zscaler’s approach eliminates the attack surface by making workloads invisible to the internet, simplifies application connectivity by eliminating networking bottlenecks, and delivers superior application performance by reducing app-to-app latency. Zscaler collaborates with major cloud providers like Amazon Web Service (AWS) and delivers a network-agnostic Zero Trust fabric that secures cloud workloads and speeds up cloud migration.
Commenting on the development, Amit Sinha, President, CTO, Zscaler, said “To properly secure cloud workloads, three critical areas – security, connectivity, and performance – need to be addressed, which legacy approaches have not been able to solve,”
“Zscaler has solved all three challenges with a new architecture that extends our Zero Trust Exchange, already trusted by thousands of enterprises to secure millions of users, to cloud workloads for stronger security, simpler connectivity, and better performance. Zscaler’s new architecture eliminates the need for organisations to extend their corporate network to the cloud, which results in a bigger attack surface, operational complexity and performance bottlenecks.”