Announcing New Zscaler Platform Capabilities to Identify, Mitigate, and Manage Large-Scale Attacks

SIMON TOMPSON - Director, Product Marketing

June 13, 2023 - 4 min read

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We’re excited to unveil new platform innovations on the Zero Trust Exchange during Zenith Live 2023. These new services transform secure branch connectivity and provide continuous monitoring and threat detection, including quantifying risks and delivering a seamless IT experience.

We’re proud to announce new innovations to our customers to help them identify, mitigate, and manage large-scale attacks. These new innovations are:

Zscaler Risk360™
Zero Trust Branch Connectivity
Zscaler ITDR™
ZSLogin™

Join us virtually at Zenith Live 2023 to see the latest innovations firsthand!

Zscaler Risk360: a powerful risk quantification and visualization framework

Zscaler Risk360 helps CISOs make informed and expedited business decisions that help reduce cyber risk. By leveraging a rich set of signals from internal and external sources within the Zscaler platform, CISOs gain unparalleled visibility and actionable intelligence from more than 100 data-driven factors to enable the following:

Powerful Risk Quantification	Delivers real-time risk scores for all stages of cyber breaches, as well as risk visualized across four entities, including workforce, third parties, applications, and assets.
Intuitive Visualization and Reporting	Filters top drivers for cyber risk and anticipates financial exposure estimates, including financial remediation recommendations, with the ability to create concise board-level presentation materials.
Actionable Remediation	Prioritizes actionable recommendations with guided workflows to investigate and remediate the most critical issues to keep an organization secure and operations running non-stop.

Zero Trust Branch Connectivity: Redefining branch connectivity for superior security and simplified management.

Zero Trust Branch Connectivity delivers simplicity, scale, and superior security, dramatically reducing recurring overhead costs associated with MPLS connections for branch locations. This fundamentally new approach to securely connecting branch offices helps eliminate risky site-to-site VPNs over SD-WANs resulting in improved user, application, and data security, lowered costs, and reduced operational complexity, all while being able to significantly accelerate M&A.

A new plug-and-play branch appliance will be an optional offer featuring zero touch provisioning, making installs effortless. Zero Trust Branch Connectivity enables CISOs to:

Replace Site-to-Site VPNs and Costly MPLS Connections with Zero Trust	Securely connecting users, services, and IoT/OT devices between branches and their application stack.
Simplify Branch IT Operations	Direct-to-internet connectivity to reach cloud-based applications eliminates the need to maintain complex legacy routing and reduces infrastructure.
Seamlessly Integrate Collaborating Workforces	Reducing time to productivity for organizations by bringing people and business applications together.

Zscaler ITDR: Mitigating identity attacks with continuous visibility, risk monitoring, and threat detection

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting users for their identities and credentials. The Zscaler ThreatLabz annual Phishing Report found that most modern phishing attacks rely on stolen credentials. Zscaler ITDR strengthens the business’s security posture with continuous visibility into identity misconfigurations and risky permissions. With Zscaler ITDR, CISOs can:

Quantify Identity Risk	By generating a risk score to quantify and track the posture of the identity attack surface.
Find Misconfigurations	Discover risky configurations like GPP password exposure, unconstrained delegation, and stale passwords that open up new attack paths.
Remediate Issues	Understand the issue, impact, and user affected. Leverage step-by-step remediation guidance along with video tutorials, scripts, and commands.
Real-Time Monitoring	Get alerted to new risks and issues when configurations change.
Stop Privilege Escalation	Detect and stop attacks like DCSync, DCShadow, kerberoasting, and more in the event of a compromise.

ZSLogin feature: Centralized login dashboard with streamlined authentication for IT processes Zscaler makes IT administrators' lives easier while elevating their effectiveness by providing the following:

Centralized Authentication	Ability to authenticate directly to Zscaler one time to seamlessly access all admin consoles.
Centralized Entitlement Management	A simple way to review all entitlements across the platform and ensure administrators receive the appropriate permissions.
Passwordless Multi-Factor Authentication	Support for passwordless, multi-factor authentication, increasing the strength of admin authentication that is easier to use and phishing resistant.
Automated Administrator Identity Management	Administrator identities can be managed using SCIM to automate the creation, entitlement assignment, and revocation of administrators based on the identity data from customer identity providers.