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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

Generating custom widgets for the ZIA Dashboard

As soon as the enterprise administrator logs into the ZIA Admin Portal, the Web Overview dashboard is displayed by default. This dashboard offers some predefined widgets. These widgets can be edited or deleted, and new custom widgets can be created. Let's take a look at that customization process.

Editing current widgets

The Dashboard page is loaded by default when an enterprise administrator logs into the ZIA Admin Portal so, there is no special navigation required after login. Current widgets on the dashboard can be edited by hovering the mouse near the top-right corner of the individual widget to reveal a pencil icon. Click on the pencil icon, and you will see two options presented there: Edit Widget and Remove. Clicking on Remove will ask for confirmation before proceeding with the deletion of this widget. Clicking on the Edit Widget will open a pop-up menu with the various options. We will discuss those options in the...