A few announcements out of Zscaler’s Zenith 2022 event today.
Zscaler Posture Control (ZPC)
https://ir.zscaler.com/news-releases/news-release-details/zs…
Zscaler is moving heavily into CNAPP with its new Zscaler Posture Control (ZPC) product line, which is part of an all-new “Zscaler for Workloads” platform. That platform is morphing several of their new product lines together… “Zscaler Workload Communications” (interconnecting cloud/datacenter network environments), “Zscaler Workload Segmentation” (interconnecting app-to-app via ML-controlled Zero Trust), with their “Zscaler Workload Posture” (CSPM + CIAM), and “Zscaler Cloud Protection” (CWP).
FOR BACKGROUND: See my Zscaler deep dive from December if you want to go deeper in what those product lines all do. https://hhhypergrowth.com/a-zscaler-platform-dive/ Then see my piece on network security from January where I talk about the new CNAPP category. https://hhhypergrowth.com/the-trends-in-network-security/
This new ZPC product is taking “Workload Posture” + “Cloud Protection” lines and expands/unifies/bundles it all together into a single CNAPP solution, having a CSPM + CIAM + CWP + DLP + Vuln Mgmt products in one interface, plus adds a new IaC scanning tool new as of May-22.
AWS Partnership (and OT moves)
https://ir.zscaler.com/news-releases/news-release-details/zs…
They also deepened their partnership w/ AWS, including tying their new Zscaler for Workloads (Posture Control and Workload Communications) into AWS mgmt services more closely, as well as extending ZPA to work over AWS’s Private 5G networking product (providing Zero Trust over IoT and OT devices controlling machinery/factories).
The 5G features are heavily related to recent news in May-22 they added a new “ZPA for OT” in their partnership w/ Siemens. Signs we should expect a major focus on IoT/OT from here. https://www.zscaler.com/press/zscaler-and-siemens-partnershi…
AI/ML improvements
https://ir.zscaler.com/news-releases/news-release-details/zs…
They also improved several features across their platform using AI/ML to improve autonomy and conditional risk scoring. This added blocking phishing attempts (using browser isolation), autonomous policies, recommendations for improving app protection, and root cause analysis in their DEM monitoring product.
So ends day one of their Zenith conf over protecting Workloads. Day two tomorrow shifts from protecting Users. Today also included an investor presentation over the new features.
Investor slides here: https://ir.zscaler.com/static-files/70a797ad-a324-4a6b-905f-…
Stream: https://events.bizzabo.com/ZscalerInvestorRelationsJune22202…
- muji