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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

Identity Management

Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources

5.6
Avg 9.0

Endpoint Security

Endpoint security software protects enterprise connected devices from malware and cyber attacks.

9.6
Avg 9.3

Threat Intelligence

Features for categories that leverage threat intelligence in network security

9.5
Avg 8.9

Zero Trust Security

Network and application access that abides by zero trust policies, where users are given access only to what they need and on an individual case basis.

9.6
Avg 9.3
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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.

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Reviewers rate Segmentation Leveraging 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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Looking for a peace of mind while your users connect to public/unsecure wifi networks - go for Zscaler Internet Access

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 03, 2021
Zscaler Internet Access is deployed across the whole organization. It is part of our standard PC image. We were looking for a solution to secure and protect our assets while surfing the internet and connecting to different wifi networks - often unsecured, public or customer ones. Zscaler Internet Access encrypts the traffic so provides secure access to the network. Insights into our bandwidth utilization and acceleration of Azure services was a nice add-on.
  • Secure internet browsing
  • Bandwidth utilization insights
  • Encrypting traffic end-to-end
  • Accelerating traffic to Azure
Cons
  • Further reduction of false-positives
  • Easier initial setup
[Zscaler Internet Access] is very well suited for scenarios where one is looking for hassle free internet and network connection. It ensures that your users can connect to any networks and they will be secure. Additional plus is ability to deploy Zscaler client to your company smartphones - this gives complete network protection. We only encounter a few issues with Zscaler Internet Access (mainly false-positives) but these were promptly resolve by the vendor.

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.

Content Filtering at it's Finest

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 22, 2020
CP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zscaler Internet Access
3 years of experience
Zscaler is being used for content filtering on out Internet. We have most everything going through Zscaler but we do have some workstations and servers that do not use Zscaler. We do hear some complaints from employees from time to time but security is a pain so it's normal.
  • Great at content filtering based on categories, countries, etc.
  • The sandbox feature of Zscaler is a huge plus.
  • Having the ability do decrypt SSL traffic works well.
Cons
  • Filtering through the logging can be a bit troublesome.
  • I can't remember the exact reason but we preferred to do an IPSEC tunnel back to Zscaler but instead had to use a GRE Tunnel
  • The reporting feature could use some improvement. Clean, clear reports would be nice.
As far as content filtering goes, Zscaler has met all of our needs. We feel that is doing the job well but we also feel like we could get more out of it. The ability for a downloaded file to be ran in a sandbox before delivering to the use is an awesome feature. The end user gets frustrated that they have to wait up to 10 minutes to receive their download but from a security standpoint it is working well.

Secure Internet Traffic for your users in the office and remote

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 20, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zscaler Internet Access
2 years of experience
We have rolled out Zscaler Internet Access to all our user endpoints, including desktops and laptops. The Zscaler Client Connector allows all internet traffic to be routed through Zscaler PoPs and filtered based on the policies that we have configured. It protects the endpoints from malicious internet traffic even when working remotely.
  • Protect the end device from malicious internet traffic even when users work remotely
  • Enforce the policies centrally from the Zscaler dashboard
  • Disable user's ability to turn off the Zscaler Internet Access protection
Cons
  • Improve internet connectivity speeds when connected to certain PoPs
  • Improve customer service time to resolve tickets
Zscaler Internet Access is well-suited for organizations needing to secure their endpoints' internet traffic when the endpoints are not in the office. Zscaler Internet Access can be implemented using the Zscaler Client Connector agent installed on the endpoints OR by establishing an IPSec tunnel from the office firewall to Zscaler PoPs. IT can easily enforce web filter policies and Data Loss Prevention policies on their user endpoints.

Great solution that adds layers of protection for safe browsing

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 01, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zscaler Internet Access
1 year of experience
We use Zscaler Internet Access in our organization as the main browser-based security layer, bringing security layers with web content filtering, cloud app security broker, and DLP cloud technologies. One of the biggest gains we have using Zscaler Internet Access is the compatibility with all platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS) and also the fast replication of policies applied in its web console. Solution met our needs providing the policies applied due to being 100% cloud solution. Fast delivery of policies and settings.
  • Access control based on cloud applications
  • Mitigation against data exfiltration
  • Web Content Filtering
Cons
  • Automatic authentication for Linux endpoints
  • Automatic authentication for macOS endpoints
  • knowledge base improvements for linux endpoints
Zscaler Internet Access is a great solution to add more layers of security to browsing, mitigating access to malicious sites or sites that contain fraudulent content. In addition to bringing more visibility over applications that IT does not have vision (shadow IT). ZIA is a solution that adds value to the business, its infrastructure is fast and for the end-user allocated to the endpoint, the experience is very pleasant and transparent.
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