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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

Implementing the ZIA solution across the enterprise

Implementing the customized ZIA solution consists of Planning, Configuration, Pilot, and Production Rollout stages. Let's start by looking at the Planning stage.

Planning

The first stage of implementing a ZIA solution is Planning. Once the enterprise evaluates the various secure web gateway solutions in the market and chooses Zscaler (preferably after a proof of concept), the planning phase begins.

Once the contract is signed with Zscaler, the enterprise should dedicate one or a few resources to serve in the capacity of Zscaler enterprise administrator (EA). The EA is responsible for contacting the enterprise project sponsor and getting the list of all the names of resources from various departments to assist with the project. A Project Manager (PM) should also be assigned.

The enterprise PM contacts the Zscaler PM and account team. A kick-off call is then arranged where all the parties introduce themselves. Recurring...