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Zscaler Cloud Security Essentials

By : Ravi Devarasetty
Book Image

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

Configuring the ZCC app for ZPA

Let's now learn how to prepare the ZCC app for a ZPA deployment within an enterprise. We already discussed the options supported by the ZCC app in detail in the context of ZIA, in Chapter 4, Understanding Traffic Forwarding and User Authentication Options, so we will not duplicate them here and only mention ZPA-specific options.

ZCC app installation

The first step is the installation of the app by the appropriate IT department within an enterprise. A few settings can be set beforehand for groups of enterprise users that will be using the app. Those settings include App Profile, Forwarding Profile, Notification, Support, Trusted Network, Zscaler Service Entitlement, User Agent, and Device Posture configurations.

On mobile devices, the ZCC app can be installed using the applicable app stores by the end users themselves. In a large enterprise, the ZCC app can be deployed using a mobile device management (MDM) platform. A MDM platform allows...