Name: Microsoft and Zscaler - Powering Fast and Secure Access to All Apps
Start: 2020-01-24T16:00:00Z
End: 2020-01-24T16:00:53.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4

Back in the day when your users were all on the network and your applications resided in your physical data center, it made sense to establish a secure perimeter around your network. But those days are over, the perimeter is gone, and network security is all but irrelevant.

Instead, you need to put your defenses and controls where the connections occur— the internet — so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications reside.

By moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud and untethering employees from their desks, you can realize tremendous advantages in productivity, agility, and cost containment. With our 100% cloud built secure platform, Zscaler can help you make the move to the cloud, securely.

Covid shifted enterprise network spending. There is more of a focus on supporting the remote and distributed workforce. As a result, many enterprises are looking at new approaches that deliver strong, secure broadband access for remote users and offices alike.

Join this new webinar as we discuss:
• Covid-inspired network architecture changes that are here to stay.
• The shifting network architecture investments that will continue due to these changes.
• The need to expand traditional approaches to include new services (e.g., SASE) and new approaches to connectivity (e.g., private 5G, satellite broadband, and more).

Changing Network Architecture Investments

Microsoft 365 has surpassed 345 million paid users and more than 270 million users rely on Microsoft Teams to stay connected globally. These services help employees stay productive and deliver results – this underscores the importance of ensuring a smooth, uninterrupted, and dependable productivity digital experience.

Join Microsoft and Zscaler for our upcoming webinar to learn how:
• Organizations like yours can monitor digital experiences for Microsoft 365 services to proactively find and fix issues that can impact user experience, and Teams meetings, even those in progress
• Combining the power of the Azure Cloud and Zscaler Digital Experience can simplify the collection of billions of signals and provide real-time analytics
• IT and security teams can benefit from better visibility of all application activity to improve performance and productivity, no matter the scale of your employee or your global coverage footprint

Top Tips to Ensure Flawless Microsoft 365 and Teams Experiences

ZTNA technology has benefited from a perfect storm of market conditions. As organizations sought to revamp their secure access model to support remote work and rapid digitization during the pandemic, the use of ZTNA increased dramatically. Fast forward to today, and the ZTNA market is growing quickly, but IT teams wanting to adopt ZTNA tools face a crowded list of vendors.  

ESG analyst John Grady and Zscaler experts will discuss where the market is headed and how it is evolving to address a much broader set of access problems than VPN replacement for remote work. 

Attendees can expect to learn:
• Where traditional remote access models fall short
• How ZTNA emerged as a VPN replacement
• What marks the next evolution of ZTNA  
• Key requirements for ZTNA tools moving forward

Making Sense of the Evolving ZTNA Market with ESG Research

Organizations are in a constant battle to balance security and workforce productivity in the current hybrid workforce environment. To optimize for remote and in-office users, organizations need to provide secure and consistent access from any device and any location while ensuring top notch security. 

Advanced monitoring tools must be used to provide visibility within secure environments, proactively monitor performance, and use AI-powered root cause analysis. IT leaders are turning to zero trust architecture for end-to-end security, while also providing the necessary visibility and control to ensure secure communication and maximize user productivity.

Join Kanishka Pandit and Rohit Goyal from Zscaler to learn key strategies to ensure a secure and productive workforce, such as:
• The importance of visibility and control in a hybrid work environment.
• Why legacy architectures are failing modern organizations.
• How ZPA & ZDX deliver unrivaled security and fast, seamless digital experiences

Key Strategies for a Secure and Productive Hybrid Workforce

Join us as we present the findings from the Zscaler ThreatLabz 2023 Ransomware Report. Discover the latest trends in ransomware attacks, backed up by data from the world’s largest security cloud.

Zscaler experts Nirmal Singh, Director of Security Research, and Brett Stone-Gross, Sr. Director of Threat Intelligence, will review the latest ransomware research from the past year and share:

• Key ransomware trends, including encryption-less ransom attacks
• The fallout from the disbanding of the Conti ransomware group
• The evolution of cross-platform ransomware development
• Attack statistics by industry, geography, and ransomware family

• How to protect your organization from ransomware with a zero trust strategy

Insights into the Latest Ransomware Trends

Your legacy firewall and VPN can’t handle long trips. They’re always dropping things—and worst, they make you feel so insecure. If that sounds familiar… it might be time to break up.
Legacy appliances and tools are set in their ways. They try to control access to critical apps like SAP, AWS, ADP, and others with static network-layer policies and rules based on IPs addresses and TCP port values. But the way you work has changed. You’ve changed. You want the freedom to securely access apps from anywhere, on any device, without being tied down to the network.

Ending it with your legacy firewalls and VPNs can give you a fresh start. Join Linda Park and Emily Laufer for a practical, candid webinar all about you, your legacy appliances, and the technology network administrators can adopt to get back the remote access spark you deserve.

Breaking up isn’t always easy, but we’re here to help. Secure your spot and learn:
• How VPNs expose your apps and data to the internet
• How implicit trust from legacy firewalls grants attackers unrestricted access
• Why network-centric solutions are slow and expensive to maintain

Why It's Time to Break Up with Your VPN and Firewall

The adoption of zero trust has accelerated as work locations become more fluid and flexible. But this change has also brought about an increase in cyberattacks. Business owners are looking for a blueprint to ensure a consistent experience while also protecting crown jewel applications. 

Application access no longer requires network access. Zero trust network access (ZTNA) provides seamless and secure connectivity to private applications without ever placing users on the network or exposing apps to the internet.

Join us for a webinar where we will review how a ZTNA solution can elevate your zero trust strategy by providing zero trust application access directly to your private applications.

Attendees will learn how ZTNA can help:
• Provide least-privileged access to private applications by minimizing the attack surface
• Identify and prevent internal attacks that can disrupt your operations with full traffic inspection
• Prevent data loss with integrated data protection through isolation

Key Strategies for Secure Access to Private Apps

The world of cyber security is a never ending arms race between cyber attackers and businesses; while bad actors devise novel ways of stealing data organizations try to thwart their efforts.

For decades this battle has played itself out at the perimeter of the network by using tools like firewalls and anti-malware to keep malicious parties outside of the network.

Steadily over the last few years, however, there has been a move to zero trust – assuming that your network is already compromised and minimizing the amount of damage the intruder can do.

Find out more about what zero trust is, how it complements more traditional perimeter defenses and why your business needs it in this informative webinar, brought to you in association with Zscaler.

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Why Your Business Needs Zero Trust

In today’s cybersecurity landscape, zero-day vulnerabilities pose significant threats to software applications, and their discovery is crucial for effective mitigations. Join us in this webinar as we will share our journey in uncovering vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor, the two most widely used PDF processing applications.

• Develop a custom harness to fuzz the Solid Framework, a third-party library used by Adobe Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor for PDF document to Microsoft Office document file conversion.

• Discovered and reported 16 vulnerabilities to date, including six cases in Adobe Acrobat and ten cases in Foxit PDF Editor, with all cases fixed.

• Notably, five of these vulnerabilities impacted both Adobe Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor, highlighting the potential ripple effects of vulnerabilities in third-party libraries.

• Share insights into our vulnerability-hunting journey, including the techniques used, and the impact of our discoveries.

• Discuss the ethical considerations in vulnerability hunting and responsible disclosure practices.

• Educate software developers about the risks that third-party and open-source libraries pose when used without a thorough security code audit via fuzzing.

Join us to learn from our experiences and gain valuable insights into uncovering vulnerabilities in PDF processing applications. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to enable your knowledge of vulnerability hunting and responsible disclosure practices.

Vulnerability Hunting in a Third-Party Plugin in Adobe Acrobat Through Fuzzing

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Over the past two years, there has been a significant increase in human-operated threat actors using stealthy tactics, social engineering, and compromised identities to bypass security controls and breach well-defended organizations.

Despite organizations transitioning to a Zero Trust architecture, they remain vulnerable to identity-based threats, malicious insiders, and lateral movement.

Security teams need a proactive approach to stop these advanced threats.

Join us for an hour of learning as we discuss how you can extend Zero Trust with Deception. We will cover the following:

*Why have attackers shifted their focus to compromising users and applications
*What Deception is and Why it is effective
*How Deception fits into a Zero Trust Architecture
*How Deception detects compromised users, lateral movement, and defense evasion techniques such as EDR bypasses
*A live attack simulation and how Deception detects and disrupts the attack at different stages

Extend Zero Trust with Deception-based Active Defense

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Despite numerous advances in security, phishing remains a top attack vector-because it works. We'll dive into the metrics and offer expert analysis from nearly a billion blocked phishing attempts to help you discover strategies for mitigating the latest phishing techniques.

Attendees will learn about:

*2022's top phishing targets by country, industry and more
*Phishing predictions for 2023-2024
*Common methods attackers use to deceive users
*How to stop attackers with a zero-trust strategy

Session Key Takeaways:

*Why phishing remains a major threat
*Why humans are the weakest link in the security chain
*Why email remains vulnerable to attacks
*Common methods attackers leverage
*How to stop attackers with a zero-trust strategy

Top Phishing Trends and How to Stop Phishing

With so many teams working remotely, employees at home have become the new network perimeter. This flexible new definition of “workplace” and BYOD policies around personal devices, stretch potential attack surfaces even further.

These expanding threat landscapes are difficult to define and to protect, and phishing has become one of the most effective ways for attackers to gain access to a network. This makes the “human” element a vital consideration in a robust security program.

Hybrid, remote, or on-premises, if you work with humans, you are at risk for phishing. So, join us to learn more about the potential threats, trends, solutions and best practices for preventing phishing attacks in your organization.

Preventing Phishing Attacks

Bad actors love to deliver threats in files. Persistent and persuasive messages convince unsuspecting victims to accept and open files from unknown sources, executing the first step in a cyber attack. 

This continues to happen whether the file is an EXE or a Microsoft Excel document. Far too often, end users have an illusion of security, masked by good faith efforts of other users and (ineffective) security controls. This creates a virality effect for ransomware, malware, spyware, and annoying grayware and adware to be spread easily from user to user and machine to machine. To stop users from saying “I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – it’s time to bust some myths about file-based attacks.

Testing in three! Two! One! Join Zscaler’s Vinay Polurouthu, Principal Product Manager, and Amy Heng, Product Marketing Manager, to:

*Bust the 9 most common assumptions and myths about file-based threats
*Uncover the latest evasion trends and detect stealthy delivery methods
*Prevent patient zero infections and zero-day security events from unknown files

A MythBusting Special — 9 Myths about File-based Threats

While zero trust has been touted as a north star for enterprise security, some experts argue that it may not be effective in all scenarios. With this reservation in mind, how can organizations, like yours, ensure that their Zero Trust strategies are effective, aligned with their security goals, and thwart today’s persistent phishing threats? 

Find out by tuning into this Fireside Chat between ESG Principal Analyst Jon Oltsik and Deepen Desai—Global CISO and Head of Security Research & Operations at Zscaler—as they survey how Zero Trust fares against the current threat landscape. 

Agenda items include:
• Zero Trust challenges & strategies for effective adoption
• A review of the 2023 ThreatLabz Phishing Report with the latest trends & techniques
• Tactics to pivot for supply chain, IoT, and MFA attacks 
• The rise of AI chatbots and their impact on cybersecurity defenders
• And much more

How Zero Trust Fares Against Current Cyber Threats

Too often are security strategies static, and perimeter-based tools such as firewall and VPN do not offer the scalability or policy granularity to secure workloads in cloud-centric environments. 

As admins aim to improve their security posture, recent ESG research cites that 46% of organizations have implemented or begun to implement zero trust across their organization—and 38% are more adaptive after adoption. However, zero trust is often overly focused on the user and neglects workloads.

Watch this custom webinar to understand why extending zero trust to your workloads should be on your agenda and:
• Why zero trust is important & where current strategies fall short.
• 4 zero trust business benefits 
• Deployment scenarios to support zero trust for workloads.


Speakers: John Grady, Principal Analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group
Brian Lazear, VP Product Management with Zscaler 
Sakthi Chandra, Senior Director, Head of Marketing- Workload Communications, Zscaler

Why Extending Zero Trust to Workloads Should Be on Every CISO’s Agenda

Your users expect fast, seamless access to all applications from any device and any location. Your business expects you to drive productivity, securely and at scale. And of course, they want all of it yesterday.

Learn how Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Zscaler combine authentication and identity management with adaptive, zero-trust access across all your apps—in the cloud and on premises. This integrated solution enables you to offer:

- Password-less authentication with single sign-on
- Secure, adaptive application access without placing users on the corporate network
- Simplified management at scale
- Join us as we discuss securing users’ access to all apps and take a dive deep into the integrations between Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Zscaler. You can also see the solution in action!

Microsoft and Zscaler - Powering Fast and Secure Access to All Apps

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