Zscaler

Cloud Services Overview

Zscaler focus is to provide policy-based, secure internet access for any device, anywhere. Organizations around the world are adopting this new security paradigm because of their increasingly mobile workforce, constantly evolving web threats, and the need to reduce costs. Zscaler offers four cloud-based subscription services that help customers secure and manage every aspect of their employees‚ internet usage.

Secure Users

Organizations are able to effectively secure their users against today‚ dynamic email and web threats with Zscaler services. Browser control and dynamic inspection of content is necessary to protect against more complex threats.

Manage Email and Web

The Web and email have become the preferred channels of communication for businesses. Maintaining control over mail flow and access to web resources is critical. Zscaler offers the ability to granularly control access to websites and applications as mandated by corporate policy.

Protect Data

Users may accidentally or maliciously leak sensitive corporate data using a number of methods including email, webmail, social networks, blogs, or instant messaging. Zscaler can prevent organizations from incurring liabilities due to data loss by scanning all outbound traffic against predefined engines.

Centralize Policy and Reporting

Traditional log consolidation from multiple locations and correlation of data is cumbersome. Zscaler’s centralized policy and reporting simplifies administration and reduces IT operational costs for organizations.

Zscaler Infrastructure

Zscaler fundamental innovation is in functionally distributing components of a standard proxy to create a giant global network that acts as a single virtual proxy so that any user can go to any gateway at any time for policy-based, secure internet access. Zscaler infrastructure comprises three key components; Zscaler Enforcement Nodes (ZEN), Central Authority (CA) and Nanolog‚ (Transaction Log) Servers.

Forwarding Traffic to Zscaler

Zscaler is unique in its Security-as-a-Service offering by allowing administrators to enforce user level policies without requiring any software or hardware deployment. It supports a diverse set of traffic forwarding mechanisms that include GRE tunnels, firewall port forwarding, proxy chaining, or PAC files.

More information

• Website : www.zscaler.com