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Zscaler – information security in the cloud

Starting today Israeli companies may enjoy the most advanced security in the world for mobile and stationary internet communication, with Zscaler’s global cloud security.

Zscaler provides an international cloud based security service (Secure Web Gateway). Zscaler’s security network encompasses 100 sites around the world, creating a security cloud through which companies and mobile users can access the internet from anywhere in the world. This international security cloud is provided by scaler as a service (Security as a Service), with all of the advantages of a service: the most advanced security applications, without the need to purchase security equipment, update or manage policies.

In addition, Zscaler provides information security at a level of cover, updating and granularity that is impossible for security products. For example, an IT manager may protect an organization from Web 2.0 threats, without blocking applications such as SalesForce or Facebook. QoS is possible between Web 2.0 applications, so that the use of SalesForce is not blocked, but the use of movie download software is.

Zscaler’s various services

A comparison between Zscaler and an information security tool

The challenge – information security in the age of global companies

IT managers today have to deal with the fact that many employees are mobile employees, as well as with the fact that internet access is also available through smartphones.

The result is an increasing difficulty to implement internet use policies for employees – because of both mobility and the increasing use of Web 2.0 applications such as SalesForce and Facebook. Many IT managers today face a dilemma: on the one hand, protecting the organization from the potential threats of Web 2.0 applications, on the other, responding to the demands of employees to use such applications, sometimes required for their work.

The limits of product based information security

Anyone who is familiar with the field of information security knows how difficult it is to protect a dynamic organization completely open to the internet, all the more so if the organization has multiple sites, as well as sites abroad. Traditional information security, based on local tools such as firewall, anti-virus, SSL encryptors and others, has several important limits:

• It requires a high level of understanding of information security and expertise in the implementation of information security tools: what products to purchase, how to integrate them and, most importantly, how to calibrate them so that they work properly without interfering with the organization’s operations (For example, the problems with intrusion detection products).
• It requires regular information security policies management, including security updates, patches, etc. as well as regular management of exposure and internet use policies for employees.
• Such expertise is required on every new site that is added to the organization, and it is difficult to implement a global information security policy over distant sites.

A common result for companies with multiple sites is that every site has a different information security policy, with different security tools, and, sometimes, even different policies for employees.

The answer – Zscaler Secure Web Gateway

Zscaler’s security network responds to the challenge of protecting the modern organization with an internet communication security service. This service operates through an international cloud over 45 sites around the world, providing a global cloud though which companies and user can access the internet.

Zscaler delivers the highest level and most up-to-date security for internet communication, from the latest operating system patches to the most granular levels of firewalls.

All security services are administered through a convenient and accessible portal for the use of the IT team, providing real time reports.

Zscaler – technological innovation

Zscaler has created a SaaS based security system with several unique technological innovations:

• Every site is a ZEN – Zscaler Enforcement Node – that implements the customer’s security policy. Sites are hardware based and have a unique operating system that ensures fast information processing and E-mail, allowing 90% of the traffic to transfer in less than 90 milliseconds.
• The Central Authority (CA) is the center that establishes the customer’s security policies. It administers and supervises all the sites to ensure that the customer’s security policies are up-to-date. The CA also refers mobile users to the nearest site to minimize latency.
• Nanolog™ (Transaction Log) Servers allow all logs from all of the company’s sites to be unified and coordinated, and presented to IT managers at any time.

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