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Securing government with thepower and scale of the cloud
The Zscaler™ Cloud Security Platform:
Driving IT modernization for government agencies

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The data protection challenges in government organizations are in many ways unique. Cloud
benefits such as agility, mobility, cost control, and performance are every bit as important togovernment agencies as private industry. But the stakes are higher when agencies consider
moving critical information and systems onto cloud-hosted platforms. Here’s why:

Security for a new world
Protecting government data in a cloud-based, mobile-enabled world demands a “trust nothing, inspect everything” approach.
If you’ve invested heavily in traditional security appliances to create a hard perimeter around your agency—and a barricade
between it and the internet—then your current security isn’t up to the task.
Your network traffic patterns are changing dramatically as apps move from the data center to the cloud. The internet isbecoming the epicenter of communication and knowledge-sharing, rendering the concept of perimeter security obsolete.
This new dynamic requires a new model for security — one that leverages the power and scale of the cloud.
More confidential data: Government stores far more data than the private sector, and much of it is extremely sensitive.
Agencies collect data on everything from income and investments, to health conditions and criminal convictions.
Greater privacy expectations: Citizens can choose whether to hand their credit card to a retailer, but they’re compelled to give
their most private information to federal, state, and local agencies. In return, citizens demand a higher degree of information
security from government.
Personal liability: For public officials, the consequences of a data breach can be personally devastating.
To put it bluntly, high-profile security incidents often are career enders for agency CIOs.
These realities have created roadblocks to governments’ wider adoption of cloud and mobile technologies. And the truth is,they’ll continue to hinder progress until agencies adopt new approaches to security that appropriately address data protection
and compliance in the cloud.

The Zscaler Cloud Security Platform is a next-generation security solution used by morethan 5,000 organizations, including governments and Fortune 500 companies. Zscalerprovides policy-driven access to the internet and applications, delivering the highest levelof security without the cost and complexity of hardware appliances.

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Zscaler enables secure
IT transformation
Zscaler enables the speed, agility, and cost containmentthat drives digital transformation across your security, apps

Zscaler delivers the full security
stack as a service
OpenInternetSaaS

IaaS

and data center, and network infrastructures:

Private Cloud/On-Premises Data
CenterSecurity transformation: Cloud scale and economics
eliminate the appliance mess by moving the security stackto the cloud. Zscaler Internet Access™ inspects every byte

Zscaler Internet Access

Zscaler Private Access
MTIPS/TICof traffic, including SSL, to deliver the highest level ofsecurity and block threats not detected by your current
security appliances.
App and data center transformation: Zscaler Private

IPSEC/GRE/
Client Connector

Access™ solves the challenges posed by a traditional

BranchVPN infrastructure by delivering policy-based access toIPSEC/GRE

MPLS/WAN
HQ Data Center

Client Connector/
PAC

Remote Users

Secure, direct-to-cloud approach

applications, not networks, whether your apps are in thedata center, in the cloud, or both.
Network transformation: Cloud-enabling your network

THE OUTBOUND GATEWAY

allows internet traffic to be routed locally — no more

Zscaler Internet Access: Fast, secure access tothe open internet and SaaS applications

backhauling — and delivers a fast and secure user

• No hardware or software to purchase and manage

experience. Simply route your internet traffic to Zscaler and• Full inline content inspection

apply consistent security policies for all users, no matter• Real-time threat correlation

where they connect.

• Cloud intelligence

The future of IT is cloud centric and mobile enabled• 60+ threat-sharing partnerships— the benefits of these technologies are compelling
for the private and public sectors alike. Yet, your dataprotection concerns are both unique and very real. Prepare
your agency to take advantage of new, transformativetechnologies with data protection that’s built for the cloud.

Start here!

• Uniform policies

THE INBOUND GATEWAY
Zscaler Private Access: Secure access to private,internal applications• No more legacy VPN; the Internet becomes asecure network• Users are never on your network; traffic moves throughan encrypted tunnel• Your apps are invisible, never exposed to the Internet

Try Security Preview to see how effectively you’re stopping• Fast, secure access to internal apps in the cloudthreats, protecting users, and safeguarding data. It’s safe,• Simplified access and improved control; users can only
see the applications to which they’ve been granted accessconfidential, and free. zscaler.com/security-preview

About Zscaler
Zscaler was founded in 2008 on a simple but powerful concept: as applications move to the cloud, security needs to move there as well.
Today, we are helping thousands of global organizations transform into cloud-enabled operations.

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