The modern digital enterprise includes applications and end users who are distributed globally, working from anywhere and everywhere. This method of work requires a secure modern infrastructure that doesn’t get in the way of business outcomes.
Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) offers companies a way to provide security without disrupting productivity. During this product demo with CIO.com, Zscaler’s Joby Menon, vice president of product management, demonstrates key features of the ZPA offering, including how companies can integrate and support legacy systems, work with business partners, and provide least privilege access to users who need application access, but not other resources.
“If you think about how the businesses have evolved in the last few years or so, applications are everywhere, and all the enterprises are going digital,” Menon says during the video. “Several digital applications, even applications like McDonald’s, or any others, will say, ‘Okay, if it takes one more second for an order to be received, it’s a business loss forever.’”
Further complicating matters, an increasingly distributed workforce has added a tremendous amount of stress to organizations’ ability to provide uninterrupted access to critical applications.
“Applications are moving, the users are moving, and you need to be able to provide secure access to all these moving parts in such a way that it enables the business and doesn’t deter them or put them backwards,” Melon adds. “Security cannot be a blocker anymore. Security has to enable these businesses. So you have to do it in a modern way. And that’s what ZPA is about: get rid of the legacy way of doing things, which is castle and moat, bring everybody to a central place and put them in a cage, if you will, and then get them access to something. This is about a new way of doing things, no matter where the business is, no matter where the application is, no matter where the user is, to provide safe and secure access to those resources for the applications and enable business security.”
Watch the full video below.
