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Zscaler Cloud Security Essentials

By : Ravi Devarasetty
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Zscaler Cloud Security Essentials

By: Ravi Devarasetty

Overview of this book

Many organizations are moving away from on-premises solutions to simplify administration and reduce expensive hardware upgrades. This book uses real-world examples of deployments to help you explore Zscaler, an information security platform that offers cloud-based security for both web traffic and private enterprise applications. You'll start by understanding how Zscaler was born in the cloud, how it evolved into a mature product, and how it continues to do so with the addition of sophisticated features that are necessary to stay ahead in today's corporate environment. The book then covers Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler Private Access architectures in detail, before moving on to show you how to map future security requirements to ZIA features and transition your business applications to ZPA. As you make progress, you'll get to grips with all the essential features needed to architect a customized security solution and support it. Finally, you'll find out how to troubleshoot the newly implemented ZIA and ZPA solutions and make them work efficiently for your enterprise. By the end of this Zscaler book, you'll have developed the skills to design, deploy, implement, and support a customized Zscaler security solution.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Zscaler for Modern Enterprise Internet Security
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Section 2: Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA) for the Modern Enterprise

Navigating around the ZPA Admin Portal

Just as the Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) Admin Portal was used to configure the feature and policy settings for end-user secure web access, the ZPA Admin Portal can be used to configure the various ZPA components and the user access policy.

Unlike the ZIA Admin Portal, which was unique to each cloud name, the ZPA Admin Portal is just one Uniform Resource Locator (URL), and that is https://admin.private.zscaler.com. Once an enterprise signs a contract with Zscaler, the login credentials for the default administrator are provided by Zscaler to the enterprise.

The enterprise administrator then logs in to the ZPA Admin Portal using these credentials, accepts the end-user license agreement (EULA), and immediately changes the Zscaler-provided password to a very strong password, as mandated by the enterprise security policy.

Once logged in to the ZPA Admin Portal, the primary navigation categories are as follows:

  • Dashboard—This...