Zscaler (ZS) Status Update summary

Platform expansion and technology strategy

• Zero Trust Everywhere now extends to users, workloads, IoT, OT, AI agents, and all entities and locations, with a focus on data security and agentic operations as growth areas.

• AI is embedded across detection, prevention, and data loss prevention, with Red Canary enhancing agentic AI capabilities and faster, high-quality threat detection and response.

• The proxy architecture and Zero Trust Exchange secure all communications, enabling scalable policy enforcement and segmentation for users, workloads, and devices.

• Zscaler's AI Data Fabric and Avalor's data fabric synthesize Zscaler and third-party data, accelerating security operations and agentic AI development.

• B2B collaboration, site-to-site Zero Trust connections, and AI interactions are highlighted as major opportunities, especially for regulated and complex environments.

Security operations and AI-powered SOC

• Zscaler's vantage point provides rich, authenticated traffic data, enabling advanced detection, prevention, and contextual investigation.

• Security strategy is built on Zero Trust Everywhere, Data Security Everywhere, and Agentic Operations, generating actionable context and signals.

• The Avalor acquisition and Zscaler's AI Data Fabric enable integration of first- and third-party data, supporting dynamic risk scoring and policy adaptation.

• Red Canary's platform processes trillions of telemetry records, automates investigations, and leverages labeled data to train specialized AI agents for SOC tasks.

• The combined approach aims to automate and streamline SOC workflows, reducing manual intervention and improving consistency.

Zero Trust Branch, Cloud, and product innovations

• Zero Trust Branch eliminates traditional firewalls and SD-WAN devices, offering unified appliances for WAN/LAN and agentless micro-segmentation.

• AirGap Networks acquisition secures internal communications, while Cloud Gateway and Zero Trust Cloud enable rapid, infrastructure-free deployment for cloud workload protection across AWS, Azure, GCP, and data centers.

• Zscaler processes over 500 trillion daily signals, blocks 8B+ threats daily, and provides 250k+ daily protection updates.

• Holistic security operations platform integrates continuous threat exposure management, unified vulnerability management, and breach prediction.

• Cloud Connectors enforce centralized policies, reducing risk from decentralized account management and eliminating the need for cloud firewalls.