M&A and Divestitures
Simplifying separations with Zscaler
Divestitures are sensitive, complicated operations that can have far-reaching effects on share value, competitive advantage, and compliance posture. Our cloud-delivered capabilities streamline separation processes.
You’ll be able to logically separate entities, drastically reduce risk, and save significant effort, such as the need for certain transition service agreement (TSA) services, turning them from potentially massive value sinks into elegant business enablers.
The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ brings ease and speed to your IT divestiture playbook, providing:
Simpler separation
Manage security and connectivity through policy instead of network access controls and segmentation.
Mitigated shared risk
Minimize exposure and grant zero trust access to divested or TSA’d resources while removing divested users from your network.
Costs that scale with effort
Demand-based pricing means costs scales to your needs, with no major capex spend or unpredictable costs to worry about.
Lower support demands
Hand over security and access controls for divested assets, reducing your TSA burden and easing your timeline.
How Zscaler helps
Maximizing value as you disentangle ecosystems can be difficult. When low-value, high-effort domains—like network and security—block your way forward, they put serious pressure on your timelines. With the Zero Trust Exchange, your way forward is clear.
Zscaler accelerates divestitures to let you separate more quickly, helping your business:
Logically remove divested assets, users, and data flows from your network ecosystem—quickly, securely, and with low overhead—on Day 1
Apply zero trust access to applications under TSAs for divested users
Convey more controls on Day 1, quickly lowering your TSA burden from the newly formed or purchased entity
Protect your crown jewels from exfiltration by a new buyer during the TSA period
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Benefits throughout the integration life cycle
Carve-Out Benefits: Day 1
Logically segment in-scope users and resources to protect your security posture during the TSA period
Hand over security policy control by conveying the carve-out Zscaler tenant to the divested entity
Reduce the need for extended TSAs while retaining appropriate controls and auditability
Grant conveyed users zero trust access to apps under TSA without placing them on your network or exposing your data
Separation/Stand-Up Benefits: Day 2 and Beyond
Offer an uninterrupted user experience by connecting users to any app, anywhere, to support interim app rehosting
Exit security- or network-based TSAs quickly by standing up or taking control of the Zscaler tenant
Realign traditional network resources to more valuable opportunities with zero IT footprint through Zscaler
Complete secure, efficient carve-outs with no concerns over circuit provisioning, capex, or supply
How Zscaler streamlines divestitures
Divestitures roadmap
01
Control
- Create a carve-out Zscaler tenant and deploy the Zscaler client to conveyed employees
02
Segment
- Deploy app connectors to allow conveyed user access to TSA’d applications and resources in a zero trust architecture
- Forgo the need for a "clone-and-go" network by leveraging the Zero Trust Exchange as the intermediary for conveyed applications
- Move conveyed employees to public Wi-Fi, effectively removing conveyed users from the network while staying productive
03
Separate
- Integrate other risk profiling capabilities to provide dynamic policy based on security posture
- Use workload-to-workload zero trust capabilities to further separate conveyed or TSA application traffic
04
TSA exit
- Close out any network or security service TSA
- Hand over tenant administration to the separated entity’s IT provider
- Remove the divested entity's identity provider, if any, from the carve-out tenant’s policy
- Remove any legacy VPN access or similar to TSA’d or conveyed applications
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