Name: Why It's Time to Break Up with Your VPN and Firewall
Start: 2023-08-23T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-08-23T17:01:09.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 3

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.

Organizations face new challenges as they shift to support a mobile-first workforce, undergo application transformation by migrating private apps to AWS or embracing SaaS, and deploy new GenAI tools to increase productivity. Legacy security products were never designed for these environments, leading to inconsistent security, increased cost/complexity, and a poor user experience. Today’s organizations require a modern, proven zero trust architecture.
 
A leader in Zero Trust for over a decade, Zscaler protects thousands of AWS customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users to apps, workloads to workloads, and devices to devices from any location. Distributed across more than 150 points of presence globally and in most AWS Regions, including GovCloud East and West, the SSE-based Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ is the world’s largest inline cloud security platform. 
 
Join John Grady (Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group) Sam Curry (Chief Information Security Officer at Zscaler), and Riggs Goodman, Principle Solutions Architect at AWS,  for an insightful discussion and learn how Zscaler enables organizations to:

• Improve their security posture with zero trust + AI
• Gain comprehensive visibility and control over GenAI applications
• Reduce the attack surface and prevent lateral threat movement
• Accelerate migration of on-prem apps to AWS
• Enjoy fast, direct access to applications and workloads

Register today!

Zero Trust + AI for AWS: Security for users, private apps, GenAI tools, and data

Cybercriminals capitalized on generative AI breakthroughs in 2023, driving a 58% spike in phishing compared to 2022. From AI-driven deepfakes and vishing to QR CAPTCHA scams, attackers are innovating rapidly. Is your organization ready to defend against the next wave of sophisticated phishing attacks?

Watch our on-demand webinar to learn about the latest phishing attack discoveries, trends, and predictions from the Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 Phishing Report, derived from the analysis of 2 billion phishing transactions captured in the world’s largest security cloud. ThreatLabz experts will unpack key findings and offer guidance on how to safeguard against phishing threats.

Watch now to learn about:

Trending phishing scams and emerging attack vectors
Top phishing targets by country, industry, and more
Phishing predictions for 2024–2025
Best practices and zero trust strategies for phishing defense

ThreatLabz 2024 Phishing Report: Trends and Tactics in the Age of AI

Watch this on-demand webinar for a deep dive into the recently released Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 AI Security Report. Zscaler CISO Deepen Desai and ThreatLabz security researcher Deepak Shanker explore the dynamic AI landscape, shedding light on its evolving security challenges.

Key takeaways:

Comprehensive understanding of the AI security landscape, featuring real-world examples of AI-related incidents.
Practical insights and recommendations for organizations navigating the challenges of AI integration.
Guidelines for leaders developing AI use policies and security measures to protect against the evolving AI landscape.

Navigating the AI Security Horizon: Insights from the Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 AI Security Report

Join our webinar to learn how the Zscaler acquisition of Airgap will simplify zero trust segmentation for organizations everywhere. Naresh Kumar, VP of Products at Zscaler and Ritesh Agrawal, CEO of Airgap Networks will discuss the key benefits for customers.

In this session, we will discuss:

How the Zero Trust Exchange will now protect east-west traffic in branch offices, campuses, factories and plants with critical OT infrastructure.
How this next step in our SASE leadership will simplify segmentation and eliminate the need for east-west firewalls, NACs and microsegmentation.
How Airgap fits into our Zero Trust Segmentation offerings that already secure connections for users, apps, locations, and clouds.

Extending SASE Leadership: Why Zscaler is Acquiring Airgap

As organizations embrace zero trust for cybersecurity, network architectures need to evolve. Traditional network architectures grant trust by default, which facilitates the lateral movement of threats such as ransomware. Networking needs a new approach built on zero trust principles.

Join Zscaler for an insightful session featuring Gartner VP Analyst Jonathan Forest and Naresh Kumar, VP of Product at Zscaler, as they discuss why zero trust networking is a critical step in any successful SASE implementation and offer a pragmatic path forward.

This on-demand webinar will cover:

Key SASE, SSE, and SD-WAN trends
A practical path to zero trust networking
How Zscaler Zero Trust SD-WAN enables a single vendor SASE framework
Don't miss this opportunity to learn how you can revolutionize your network security.

Unlocking the Future of SASE with Zero Trust Networking

According to the Cybersecurity Insiders 2024 VPN Risk Report, 56% of enterprises have experienced a cyberattack in the past year that targeted unpatched VPN vulnerabilities. While VPNs remain a commonly used approach for remote connectivity, recent security incidents have exposed their glaring security loopholes.

In this on-demand webinar, we’ll explore key survey findings and security trends from the latest VPN Risk Report with Holger Schulze, CEO and Founder at Cybersecurity Insiders, and Kevin Schwarz, Zscaler Head of CTOs for EMEA & APAC.

Zscaler and Cybersecurity Insiders, surveyed over 600 security, IT, and networking professionals to better understand VPN-related issues, including management complexity, user experience, security challenges, cyberattack risks, and enterprise zero trust adoption.

In this session, we will discuss:

The top VPN security risks and management challenges
Cyberattack trends exploiting VPN vulnerabilities and lateral movement risk
The strategic importance of zero trust and transitioning from a VPN to a more secure framework
Best practices for implementing zero trust to secure remote access followed by an interactive Q&A with the experts

Is Your VPN Secure? Key Findings from 2024 Risk Report Revealed

With more than 175 ZB of data moving to the cloud by 2025, it’s a no-brainer that cloud data should become a security team’s top priority. However, the cloud has proven to be complex and vulnerable, leaving cloud data at risk. That’s why we’ve seen the rise of data security posture management (DSPM) which enables organizations to effectively discover, classify, and secure data in the cloud. With any emerging technology, how do you separate what’s actually needed from the glitz and glamor?

Join our panel of security experts, including Robert Bolton, Sr. Product Manager, and Kalie Radsmikham, Sr. Director, Product Marketing as they guide you through the essentials of DSPM and why it needs to be part of your data protection strategy.

 This session will cover:

Top data security challenges and trends
5 must-haves when looking for a DSPM solution
How to kick-start your DSPM journey
Whether you're new to DSPM or looking to enhance your knowledge, this session provides valuable insights, best practices, and things to avoid when choosing a DSPM solution and the right implementation approach.

Why Does DSPM Belong In Your Data Protection Strategy?

No data protection program is complete without CASB and DLP. While these technologies can help to restore control, there are still challenges that need solving.

Join this discussion to hear game-changing concepts around data protection, such as:

The best architecture for delivering CASB, DLP, and data protection
New browser isolation innovations that can enable easy, risk-free BYOD access
How to better secure apps like Salesforce and Microsoft 365 from data loss
Why you need to think holistically about Cloud Security Posture Management
Guidance and best practices from real-life deployments

Innovations That Will Revolutionize CASB and Data Protection

Learn about innovations that deliver unified posture management across IaaS and SaaS, empower safer usage of GenAI, and expand protections across data detection and response (DDR) and data lineage.

The AI Data Protection Platform Launch

There’s more to securing your business than firewalls and VPNs. We live in a day when digital transformation is critical, and moving business to the cloud is both our present and our future. In the midst of this sea of change, it’s difficult to navigate through all the architecture complexities and industry jargon—particularly when it comes to diluted and misappropriated terms like zero trust.

So, let’s keep it simple! Watch this on-demand webinar to learn the basics of zero trust, including:

What exactly does zero trust mean? Does it really mean we trust nothing?
How is zero trust a superior architecture compared to traditional, perimeter-based security?
What does a journey from perimeter-based security to zero trust typically look like?

Start Here: An Introduction to Zero Trust

Interest in zero trust security initiatives is at an all-time high. Have you looked beyond replacing your VPN with ZTNA? While that is a great first step, it’s time to up your zero trust game with Zscaler Private Access (ZPA). Provide fast, secure access to employees and third-party users, whether they are on-campus or remote, while neutralizing threats. Achieve all this with a platform that is simple and easy to deploy.

We’re showcasing a roadmap to ZTNA adoption that is customizable to fit your organization and IT plans.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn:
Why it’s time to look beyond VPN with ZTNA
Steps to mature your zero trust journey
How ZPA delivers comprehensive security for your workforce

Beyond the VPN - Emerging Uses and Benefits of ZTNA

With the advent of AI, we are at the brink of hybrid work productivity upgrading to the next level. AI can help unlock the full potential of remote and hybrid workforces in the new world. As organizations start to explore new ways to use AI within their tech stack, cyber security has made big strides to protect workers and ensure great user experiences while users are working from anywhere.

IT and security leaders now have the opportunity to leverage AI to improve the security posture of their hybrid workers as well as boost productivity by improving resolution times for all users. Zscaler is the world's largest security cloud with over 150 PoPs around the world, securing over 300B daily transactions. Watch this webinar on-demand to learn how you can leverage the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange to best support your hybrid workforce.

Unlock the Full Potential of Hybrid Work with AI

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

The way we work has changed. Your apps are no longer in your data centers and your users are no longer in the office. Traditional WAN architectures, with their castle-and-moat approach, introduce unnecessary latency, create performance bottlenecks, and impair digital experience for your users. At the same time, as users have moved off the corporate network, IoT and OT devices are proliferating. These devices have different requirements, and introduce new security challenges. Branch networking needs to evolve to meet these changing needs.

Join this webinar to learn how infrastructure teams can transform their branch network, reduce cost and complexity, and improve security all at the same time using Zero Trust Branch Connectivity and the SASE framework. This live session will help you:
• Understand the requirements for a cafe-like branch experience
• Dive into how legacy WAN architectures leave security gaps and create performance bottlenecks
• Learn how zero trust principles and the SASE framework can help modernize your branch connectivity and security

Modernizing Branch Connectivity with Zero Trust

Interested in extending the Zscaler platform to secure your workloads in the public cloud? Looking for best practices? Where do you start and what do you implement to enable zero trust? VMs, Serverless, VDI, Containers—struggling to secure their ingress and egress traffic? How can you transition your cloud security to a modern architecture that is based on least-privileged access? 

Zero trust presents an opportunity for IT organizations to resist the temptations to extend their WAN architecture that is used on-premises to the cloud. Existing firewall- and VPN-based approaches put enormous responsibility on IT teams to configure policies and enforce remediations locally at each trust zone. This approach creates routable networks a panacea for firewall bloat and untenable policy management. 

Join this webinar with product and technical experts from Zscaler, the industry leader in zero trust, as they discuss how you can implement zero trust in five simple steps. Topics will include product demonstrations and best practices to: 
• Implement advanced threat prevention using Zscaler zero trust 
• Enable proxy-based SSL decryption for all workloads
• Activate data protection for cloud 
• Configure workload segmentation between different public clouds based on policy profiles 
• Enable log streaming from the public cloud to your SIEM for compliance & regulatory and SecOps requirements

How to Extend the Zscaler Platform to Secure Workloads in a Public Cloud

Industry analysts have determined that the next-generation zero trust network access (ZTNA) framework is the most effective and efficient method for keeping hybrid employees safe from attackers, preventing data loss, and delivering an unhampered user experience.

This is great news for security practitioners, but the question remains—how can you help your organization turn this proven concept into a reality?

Join Mike Ruiz, Consulting Engineer at Zscaler, as he explains how next-gen ZTNA creates a more secure hybrid work ecosystem. He will also detail the robust capabilities of Zscaler Private Access (ZPA), a next-gen ZTNA platform that is part of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange.

7 Secrets of Success to Achieve Universal Zero Trust Network Access

As organizations shift their workloads to the public cloud, ensuring their protection becomes paramount. Alarmingly, a IDG survey reports that 35% of customers struggle with increased costs in cloud management and cloud security. Safeguarding public cloud workloads has emerged as a significant challenge for organizations embarking on their digital  transformation.

Join us for an exclusive event where Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, unveils groundbreaking innovations in cloud workload protection. Don't miss the opportunity to hear from Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler, Dhawal Sharma, SVP and GM of Product Management, and Brian Lazear, VP of Product Management, as they share information on how our Zero Trust Exchange™, the world's largest in-line cloud security platform radically simplifies cloud workload security. 

You will learn how to:
• Elevate your cloud workload security  with zero trust principles, prevent zero day attacks, and protect data with cloud-scale TLS inspection, segmentation, advanced threat protection, and data protection
• Simplify multi cloud workload communications across AWS, Azure, and GCP and learn how Zscaler can provide zero trust for special use cases such as AWS GovCloud and the public clouds in China region
• Automate security deployments through programmable interfaces such as Terraform, AWS user-defined tags, and auto-scaling groups.

New Zero Trust Innovations to Radically Simplify Public Cloud Workload Security

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

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