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Zscaler Internet Access

Overview

What is Zscaler Internet Access?

Zscaler Internet Access™ (ZIA) is a secure web gateway (SWG), delivering cloud native cyberthreat protection and zero trust access to the internet and SaaS apps.

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What is Zscaler Internet Access?

Zscaler Internet Access™ (ZIA) is a secure web gateway (SWG), delivering cloud native cyberthreat protection and zero trust access to the internet and SaaS apps.

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Product Demos

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Features

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Zero Trust Security

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Product Details

What is Zscaler Internet Access?

Zscaler Internet Access™ (ZIA) is a secure web gateway (SWG), delivering cloud native cyberthreat protection and zero trust access to the internet and SaaS apps.


Enterprises worldwide have spent billions on firewalls, yet breaches are increasing. The problem is simple: traditional firewall-centric architectures are no longer effective against cyberthreats.


Built on the principle of least privilege, Zscaler’s proxy architecture enables full TLS/SSL inspection at scale, with connections brokered between users and applications based on identity, context, and business policies.


Benefits:

• Preventing cyberthreats and data loss:

Protects organization against advanced threats with a suite of cyberthreat and data protection services, enriched by real-time updates sourced from 500 trillion daily threat signals from the Zscaler security cloud.

• User experience:

Fast Internet and SaaS experience to boost productivity and increase business agility.

• Modernization of security architecture:

Zscaler replaces costly, complex, and slow appliances with a fully cloud-native zero trust platform.

Zscaler Internet Access Features

Zero Trust Security Features

  • Supported: Continuous Verification
  • Supported: Secure Web Gateways
  • Supported: Network Flow Control
  • Supported: Network Traffic Analysis
  • Supported: Segmentation Leveraging
  • Supported: Admin Access Control
  • Supported: Network Data Encryption

Threat Intelligence Features

  • Supported: Network Analytics
  • Supported: Threat Recognition
  • Supported: Vulnerability Classification
  • Supported: Automated Alerts and Reporting
  • Supported: Threat Analysis
  • Supported: Threat Intelligence Reporting
  • Supported: Automated Threat Identification

Additional Features

  • Supported: Prevent Compromise
  • Supported: Stop Lateral Movement
  • Supported: Stop Data Loss

Zscaler Internet Access Screenshots

Screenshot of Stop Advanced Threats and Data Loss
Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) is a cloud native security service edge (SSE) solution that builds on a decade of secure web gateway leadership. Offered as a scalable SaaS platform through the world’s largest security cloud, it replaces legacy network security solutions, preventing advanced attacks and data loss with a comprehensive zero trust approach. ZIA is integrated seamlessly into the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ to provide superior defense-in-depth, secure connectivity, end user experience, and administrative visibility and control.

Zscaler Internet Access Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese

Frequently Asked Questions

Zscaler Internet Access™ (ZIA) is a secure web gateway (SWG), delivering cloud native cyberthreat protection and zero trust access to the internet and SaaS apps.

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series and Fortinet FortiGate are common alternatives for Zscaler Internet Access.

Reviewers rate Network Flow Control highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Zscaler Internet Access are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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A review from an organisation with both on-prem and remote workforce.

Rating: 6 out of 10
May 06, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zscaler Internet Access
4 years of experience
Our office has a hybrid working environment with corporate employees working out of the corporate office and then the remote consultants. We use Zscaler as our firewall for our hosted solutions on Azure and AWS. We are also maintaining a Fortinet NGFW on-premise for our corporate staff. Zscaler is primarily tasked with protecting our hosted solutions on the cloud. We also route some outbound traffic from our corporate office via Zscaler to the internet. The primary reason we bought Zscaler is to allow remote consultants to connect into our secure services hosted online.
  • Zscaler completely moved away from the traditional firewall setup to a hosted firewall solution. We don't have to worry about the hardware failing or maintaining it as part of our service plan compared to our on-premise firewall. Zscaler has a lot of data centres across the world where they are maintaining their solutions so mobile consultants will always be close to one of their data centres.
  • Rolling out Zscaler solutions to our end customers' computers is actually pretty easy and hassle-free. As part of onboarding of new employees we can set up the Zscaler solution and push it to our end users' machines and get them connected to the cloud solutions.
  • Zscaler does proper market research on the latest emerging threats and they keep their firewall patched and updated to the latest versions so the security team does not have to worry about keeping the firewall updated.
Cons
  • My personal opinion about Zscaler is their idea is that all the services are online and are moving to the cloud but the truth is some of them have to stay on-premise and employees still need to work from an office. Zscaler simply doesn't have any on-premise solutions like an NGFW to provide a complete package. We are supporting Fortinet NGFW for our on-premise solution.
  • As mentioned earlier Zscaler being hosted online we don't get the full flexibility of managing our firewalls. Although it's a good thing we keep running into problems like when we want to allow list a service from a specific source IP Zscaler cannot provide a static IP for that. They route traffic through multiple IP addresses and the IP's keep changing every 15-20 minutes. So you cannot allow list a specific IP on the receiving end. The only way to move forward would be to allow an entire range of IP's which opens a security loophole on the receiving end.
  • For every small thing we have to keep opening a ticket with Zscaler. Their response rate is fast but still in a fast-moving world it's not fast enough. Especially since we need to get approval from our change control to get something done and then again we have to raise a ticket to get something done from the Zscaler side.
Zscaler is well suited if you have a work force which is 90-100% remote and you don't have to worry about any on-premise solution. In these cases all you have to do is set up your Zscaler and push credentials to your end users and they are good to go. Zscaler simply doesn't have any solutions if you have physical offices. This means you need to maintain separate firewalls (On-prem NGFW and Zscaler), separate contracts, separate points of contact and separate documentation and training.

In the Middle East region with strict data laws or countries where there is a law that critical network devices have to be maintained in the country this might not be the right solution as Zscaler doesn't have data centres in every country. Also some organisations like the government's compliance policy might not permit a solution like Zscaler because the security team does not have much control of the product.

Solid internet proxy.

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 16, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zscaler Internet Access
5 years of experience
Zscaler internet access allows our business to control and dictate what website users can access and to what specific categories of websites, such as gambling or file sharing sites, and also allows us to be specific in enabling certain URL strings, too. The data behind it is useful for getting stats on how many people visit a particular site. We also use cloud app control, which gives us visibility on shadow IT or SaaS applications that are being used to share company data.
  • Restrict website.
  • Control access.
  • Visibility
Cons
  • Functionality
  • User interface.
  • Log export.
It does what it’s meant to do well, as it will allow you to restrict access to specific websites, and it’s good at doing that.

On a Zscale of 1 to 10, Zscaler is Certainly a 10

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 06, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zscaler Internet Access
1 year of experience
Zscaler handles our web filtering, web usage tracking, bandwidth control, etc.... everything that allows us to control and visualize what's going on in and out of our network, primarily for Cyber Security. Reports are available to track usage and help determine possible reasons for gaps in productivity. Bandwidth controls allow users to still utilize other sites, such as Youtube, but ensure that the usage doesn't bog down the rest of the company.
  • DAS program helps ensure that you get set up properly the first time around.
  • Reports are easily customizable from minute details that you may want as IT to high-level overviews for executive presentations.
  • Lots of capability.
Cons
  • No email support -- you must open tickets through their website.
  • Some support technicians need more experience.
If you're looking to ramp up your Cyber Security operations, Zscaler is a must-see. Their demos are great and the implementation is fairly painless. DAS helps you to get it set up and ensure success.

Great web filtering and CASB tool for enterprises

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 19, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zscaler Internet Access
2 years of experience
Zscaler Internet Access is a web inspection and ssl decryption tool. It's flexibility and scalability is amazing as all the procesing is done via the client connector and zcaler cloud. It gives the ability to do DLP controls and CASB implemtations. The number of uses cases for Zscaler Internet Access are pretty high and should suffice the needs for any company in the word that cares about security.
  • Web inspection
  • SSL decryption
  • DLP inline
Cons
  • Client bypass
  • Usage of PAC filed
  • Support website
Web content inspection using a common policy for all users, apply specific Web policies to different groups or even individual users based on the identity, block of personal storage solutions, block of personal email providers, block of shadow IT services (sanction and unsanction apps), block apps based on risks scores provided by Zscaler Internet Access, usage of GRE tunnels for on-prem sites for inspection without the need of a client connector and with all the same capabilities to process the data on the zscaler cloud, data los prevention policies capabilities with specific use cases.

Zscaler Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 24, 2020
AG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zscaler Internet Access
2 years of experience
Zscaler is being used by the whole organization. We are using it for security - internet security, firewall, web security, etc. Also used for vulnerability management of user activity happening in cloud computing. It helps to simplify administration, improves control and increase visibility. It also increase the user performance.
  • Improves visibility.
  • Provides security.
Cons
  • It does not support iOS and android yet.
It effortlessly scales to the traffic needs of users, including the hard-to-examine SSL. With this solution, businesses and its users are well-protected against security issues in the cloud.
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