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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the features of the ZIA policy that can be broadly categorized into Web, Mobile, and Firewall policies. An enterprise can customize these various policies to suit its business needs. A strong understanding of the implications of turning on a certain option is necessary for an enterprise administrator to create a robust security policy necessary for an enterprise to meet its security obligations. This knowledge will come in handy when architecting a Zscaler ZIA solution.

In the next chapter, we will look at the various options of forwarding end-user traffic to Zscaler, the authentication methods that can be configured for end users, and the capability and flexibility of the Zscaler Client Connector application.