Company Overview
Founded in 2007 by Jay Chaudhry and headquartered in San Jose, California, Zscaler delivers cloud-native security through the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. It brokers connections between users, devices, workloads and applications without placing users directly on the corporate network.
Its portfolio spans secure internet access, private application access, digital experience monitoring, data protection, cloud/workload security and AI-security capabilities.
Market Positioning
- Primary categories: SSE/SASE and Zero Trust access, with Zscaler Internet Access, Zscaler Private Access and related data, workload and experience services.
- Public differentiation: large multi-tenant security cloud, proxy-based inspection, direct-to-application access and reduced legacy network exposure.
- Target: global enterprises and public-sector organizations pursuing network transformation and Zero Trust architectures.
Points of Attention
- The price list is complex; buyers should model the complete target scope and anticipated cross-sell before committing.
- Some services, such as ZIA and ZPA, may rely on distinct operational consoles or clouds, increasing administration effort.
- DLP depth should be benchmarked against specialist alternatives, and renewal uplift should be anticipated contractually.
Representative Integrations
- Identity: Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity and standards-based identity providers.
- Endpoint and security operations: Microsoft, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, ServiceNow, Splunk and SIEM/SOAR ecosystems.
- Cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
- Collaboration and SaaS: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Salesforce.
Recent Developments
- 2025–2026 — continued expansion of AI Protect and broader Zero Trust Everywhere positioning.
- May 2026 — launched Project AI-Guardian with global systems integrators.
- June 2026 — expanded AI-Guardian to technology alliance partners.
- June 2026 — announced a strategic collaboration with AWS covering GenAI integrations and reference architectures.