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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

Understanding the CA – where the core resides

As mentioned earlier, the CA is where an entire company's data will be stored, relating to users, groups, and departments; configuration such as access policies detailing who will be allowed access to what and when; where and how logging will be performed.

When a new customer is provisioned on a Zscaler cloud after a contract signature, the main contact on the contract is given a Super Admin credential (username and password) into the cloud instance that is created for that customer. The main customer contact can then use those credentials and log in to the Zscaler administration portal for their cloud instance. The customer will then have to decide how to translate their company security policy and configure the Zscaler administration portal that resides in the CA.

After the customer completes this configuration portion, the CA never uses customer information such as username, location, and company name as it is. Instead...