Zscaler, a leader in cloud security, has announced new data protection innovations that build upon a rich heritage of securing data across all cloud apps for data in motion, data at rest and BYOD assets with unprecedented accuracy and scale.
The new advancements accelerate data protection programmes from months to hours with zero configuration for Data Loss Prevention (DLP). This mitigates security risks by unifying data protection across all channels, simplifying operations by automating workflows.
In today’s highly mobile and cloud-centric world, data is created and distributed across hundreds of applications and workloads, escalating organisations’ risk of data loss. Enterprises’ inability to protect distributed data is reinforced in the findings of the new 2022 Data Loss Report by the Zscaler ThreatLabz research team.
ThreatLabz found that 36% of cloud application data is accessible via the open Internet. Analysis of nearly 6 billion data loss policy violations revealed that organisations experience an average of 10,000 potential data loss events daily resulting in losses greater than US$4.35 million.
Traditional DLP solutions can’t secure distributed data and require a massive amount of resources to configure, maintain and manage, which can be costly and result in months to implement, putting organisations at risk. Concurrently, the lack of automated workflows prevents security teams from managing critical risks leading to elongated mitigation timelines and unresolved incidents.
To make matters worse, the reliance on separate point products for different channels causes increased risk, reduced visibility and inconsistent policies. Organisations that have not deployed a unified Zero Trust strategy suffer an additional US$1 million loss on average, indicating that data protection cannot be a standalone endeavour.
“Building on eight years of data protection innovations, Zscaler has employed advanced auto-classification capabilities to accelerate setup and reduce security team overhead and costs,” said Moinul Khan, Vice President and General Manager, Data Protection, Zscaler. “Unlike other data protection solutions, this ensures that Zscaler Data Protection works for the IT administrator, rather than having the IT administrator work for it. In addition, the technology we acquired from the recently announced ShiftRight acquisition allows organisations to manage hundreds of potential risks and incidents in a simple yet very sophisticated way to reduce case resolution time significantly.”
The recently introduced security category, Security Service Edge (SSE), reinforces the market’s need for unified data protection as part of a larger, purpose-built security platform. These advancements to the Zero Trust Exchange, aligned to SSE principles, further Zscaler’s position as a leader in data protection by empowering security teams with:
• Expedited deployment cycles with zero configuration DLP
• Mitigated security risks by unifying data protection across all channels
• Simplified operations through automated workflows
“Securing data is always a challenge due to complex workflows and inconsistent protection strategies and coverage across users and devices,” said Bashar Abouseido, CISO, Charles Schwab. “With Zscaler, that has all changed, as we now have one unified platform with full visibility and policy control while drastically streamlining our processes.”
