Zero Trust Automation for the Full Zscaler Deployment Lifecycle
Manage the Zero Trust Exchange programmatically via OneAPI™.
Act fast. Stay secure. Automate more.
Security, network, help desk, and developer teams everywhere are leveraging unified, intuitive, and reliable automation for the Zero Trust Exchange platform. This helps them:
Keep pace with modern business
Reduce operational complexity
Enhance their security postures
The problem
Today’s IT teams are stretched thin
Supporting business priorities while keeping the lights on, minimizing costs, and ensuring proper cybersecurity is no easy job—and using point products makes it even harder. Manually managing disjointed solutions is a laborious process that takes time, wastes money, and fosters human errors that compromise security. Your teams need a platform that enhances agility, efficiency, and security.
Solution Overview
Zero Trust Automation
Organizations can solve the above problems by using OneAPI to automate the full Zscaler deployment lifecycle—from initial rollout to ongoing operation.
OneAPI is a single application programming interface (API) for the entire Zero Trust Exchange platform. It provides programmatic access (via code) to any product (ZIA, ZPA, ZDX, etc.) for any API client (ServiceNow, Postman, agentic AI, home-grown apps, etc.). As a result, admins can automate:
• Configuration changes
• Analytics data retrieval
• Notification generation
Benefits
Reap the rewards of automation
Increase speed and scalability
Streamline the secure deployment and ongoing management of new locations, new applications, and new organizations acquired via M&A activity.
Boost return on investment (ROI)
Automate routine and menial tasks so admins can focus on more valuable work—improving their productivity and job satisfaction, as well as your savings.
Improve cyber risk reduction
Deploy zero trust architecture more quickly, avoid manual efforts that risk human error, and use automated defenses that improve response time to threats.
Solution Details
Support for agentic AI
OneAPI and the Zscaler Integrations MCP Server grant platform management to AI agents like Claude Desktop, Cursor, Visual Studio Code, and more.
A unified API endpoint
Drive operational efficiency through a unified automation framework that has a common API endpoint, versioning scheme, and response format.
Secure API authorization and access
Leverage OAuth 2.0 for secure API authorization. Take advantage of coarse and fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC) for API clients.
Centralized API credential management
Enable automation to act as your administrator, complete with its own identity. Leverage support for auditing, visibility, and change control.
A globally distributed gateway platform
Use cloud native automation built for low latency and high availability. API clients authenticate once and are routed to the closest point of presence (PoP).
Use Cases
Putting automation to work
Programmatically deploy zero trust via any automation, API, or infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solution—with pre-built tooling to minimize manual effort.
Detect and remediate threats without human intervention by enabling automatic rollouts of policy updates, config changes, and user notifications.
Automatically pull digital experience data into custom and third-party widgets and dashboards; receive automated notifications about any problems.
Get real-time alerts on deployment health issues, then fix them via programmatic change implementation and convenient restore points for code.
Leverage agentic AI to manage your deployment—with secure authentication, RBAC, and audit logging for any MCP-compatible AI agents.
Templatize, standardize, and automate IT integrations for consistent security enforcement, streamlined IT processes, and faster M&A time-to-value.
Programmatically manage and automate customers’ deployments across configurations, analytics, and alerts—without pivoting between tenants.
Leverage policy-as-code (PaC) and customizable templates to integrate security into CI/CD workflows and ensure that new apps are secured quickly.
The Zscaler Platform
The cybersecurity platform for the AI Age - built on Zero Trust to protect users, workloads, branches and devices through the world’s largest inline security cloud.
Data Security
Secure data everywhere, with comprehensive visibility and controls across all channels.
AI Security
Embrace AI with confidence using Zscaler AI Protect, a unified solution to secure AI at scale.
Agentic SecOps
Draw on insights from the world’s largest inline security cloud and third-party sources to assess risk and detect and contain breaches.
How to Automate
For a one-stop shop that empowers you to automate your use of the Zero Trust Exchange, visit our Automation Hub.
It offers an AI-powered copilot, code snippet collections, playbook templates, SDKs, and comprehensive help documentation that make it easy to streamline your automation journey.
FAQ
IT automation uses software to handle repetitive tasks like installing updates, managing settings, tracking networks, and collecting data. By reducing manual tasks, it helps prevent human mistakes, saves time, and lets IT teams focus on more complex projects, boosting overall efficiency.
API automation lets systems share data and perform tasks via API without needing human input. It streamlines processes like updates, analytics, and system monitoring, reducing errors and saving time. With it, security teams can scale faster and ensure consistent protection across all operations.
Business automation uses tools like AI and machine learning to handle repetitive tasks, improving speed and accuracy. In security, automation tools can detect risks, enforce policies, and respond automatically to threats, helping to streamline workflows and protect data.
OAuth 2.0 is a framework that lets apps access resources without sharing passwords. It protects user accounts by asking for permission before apps connect. Widely used for APIs, OAuth 2.0 helps secure data and enables easy single sign-on (SSO) for websites and apps.
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