Zenith Live 2026 Recap

Zenith Live 2026 Recap

Day One at Zenith Live

AI is changing how organizations work, and it is reshaping the threat landscape just as fast. In his opening keynote, Jay Chaudhry traced Zscaler’s founding conviction to the AI inflection point now facing enterprises and why Zscaler was built for this moment. He described AI agents as a new digital workforce operating at machine speed, and explained why legacy security models—designed for humans—are not equipped to secure them. He also showed why the Zero Trust Exchange naturally extends to AI agents through the same architecture that secures users, branches, and workloads. Joined on stage by AWS and Merck, Jay laid out four practical steps for securing the enterprise at agentic speed and closed with a call to embrace zero trust as the critical foundation for AI.

Day One Highlights

Introducing AI Broker for Agents

Secure agentic communications through MCP and A2A brokers and enforce fine-grained access policies across every enterprise AI agent.

Introducing AI Endpoint Security

Find and stop AI threats on employee devices in browsers, extensions, and plugins that traditional EDRs were never built to see.

Introducing AI Access Graph

Get real-time visibility into how AI agents use data and identities, reducing unnecessary access and tracking data lineage across every channel.

Expanding Zscaler's AI Protect Solution

Get broader coverage than ever — with discovery and controls that expand what security teams can see, govern, and defend across the AI ecosystem.

Project AI-Guardian Partner Ecosystem Expansion
Connect the Zero Trust Exchange with leading AI, cloud, and infrastructure platforms to accelerate secure AI adoption.

Customer and Partner Highlights

AWS

"With great security and great guardrails, you can set the organization free to innovate. And that’s the crux. You have to provide data access, but you have to do it in a way that's secure."

Rahul Pathak
VP, Data and AI Go-To-Market
AWS

KPMG

“As businesses scale their use of AI agents to optimize operations, having a unified, zero-trust framework to trace data lineage and govern agent-to-agent interactions is paramount to maintaining trust, compliance, and competitive advantage.”

John Israel

Global CISO

KPMG

OpenAI

“Through our partnership with Zscaler and initiatives like Trusted Access for Cyber and Project AI-Guardian, we're advancing a shared commitment to deploying AI responsibly—combining frontier capabilities with rigorous safeguards, transparency, and human oversight.”

Scott Rosecrans

Vice President of Strategic Pursuits

OpenAI

Rahul Pathak VP, Data and AI Go-To-Market AWS
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John Israel Global CISO KPMG
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Scott Rosecrans Vice President of Strategic Pursuits OpenAI
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Day Two at Zenith Live

Day Two focused on Zero Trust SASE innovations to support evolving business requirements and highlighted Zscaler’s evolving cyber capabilities to defend against AI-powered attacks. Announcements spanned agentic Zscaler operations with the ZAgent framework; end-to-end security improvements including Agentic SOC operations, PQC inspection, autonomous app protection, and endpoint context; enhancements to secure connectivity across managed and unmanaged devices, cloud and branch workloads—and more.

DAY TWO HIGHLIGHTS

Introducing ZAgent Agentic Framework

Simplify, accelerate, and automate SASE administration and Zscaler operations with agentic AI across the platform.

Introducing Zero Trust Browser Extension & Enterprise Browser

Extend Zero Trust access to unmanaged and BYOD devices with data controls and browser-level protection.

Introducing Zero Trust B2B Connectivity

Enable secure connectivity to the entire business partner ecosystem without exposing networks while reducing complexity of managing site-to-site VPNs.

Introducing Zero Trust SASE for Multi-Cloud

Apply consistent policy for workload traffic across clouds, including GCP and Kubernetes environments.

Introducing Agentic Security Operations Platform

Assess, prioritize, and respond to threats faster with agentic security operations powered by Zscaler telemetry.

Customer and Partner Highlights

Carrier

“About 80% of our total business runs through channels. So dealers and distributors—hundreds and thousands of them. Extending Zscaler capabilities into our dealer network was a logical extension that enabled us to serve our customers jointly with our partners in a very secure and efficient way.”

Bobby George

SVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer

Carrier

Cognizant

“We see a very strong intersection between the data protection and visibility we need to be able to deploy robust AI solutions not only to transform Cognizant, but also provide those solutions to our customers.”

John Wheeler

Chief Security Officer

Cognizant

NOV

“We were fortunate 10 years ago to get Zscaler to solve one problem, but they've grown or been right ahead of where we've needed to be.”

Alex Philips

CIO

NOV

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John Wheeler  Chief Security Officer  Cognizant
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