Zscaler, a cloud-based software as a service security company, was included in the authorized vendor list of the new State Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Wednesday its Zscaler Private Access and Zscaler Internet Access products have achieved “Ready” status under StateRAMP, which is partly modeled after FedRAMP and aims to standardize the […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2021 — Zscaler is one of the 18 companies selected by the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to join a consortium through a cooperative research and development agreement and support design and demonstration of ways to implement zero trust architectures, GovCon Wire reported July 23. “Zero trust is a team […] More

The House Oversight and Reform Committee’s government operations subpanel released the 12th iteration of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard and Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, said federal agencies should focus on improving cyber scores in the latest FITARA scorecard. “We should be laser […] More

Some technology industry leaders said President Joe Biden's recent executive order offers a new paradigm for the public sector to expand cyber threat information sharing initiatives with the private sector and update cloud service cybersecurity requirements. "The Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity moves us into the era of Cloud Secure,” Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler.

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Zscaler has partnered with Telos to use the latter's Xacta cyber risk assessment tool to help automate deployment authorizations under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and Department of Defense. The team will execute a phased rollout process and integrate Xacta with Zscaler's System Security Plan to handle risk management activities for Zscaler's Z-OS variant of the Linux operating system, Telos said Wednesday.

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Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, has said that agencies must use new security approaches like zero trust to fortify multicloud and hybrid environments.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 5, 2021 “” Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), said agencies should inspect Secure Sockets Layer traffic within a network using a "defense-in-depth" approach to avoid ransomware attacks and other destructive threat vectors, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 28.

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Zscaler has been prioritized by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program's Joint Authorization Board to pursue high-impact level certification for a network security technology offering to handle sensitive and unclassified government data in cloud environments.

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Cybersecurity experts are urging government agencies to accelerate the adoption of zero trust capabilities in the wake of a cyber attack involving a vulnerability in SolarWinds“™ Orion software, FedScoop reported Saturday. “They“™re kind of operating on the fly,“ Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and compliance at Zscaler. “They“™re buying one solution and thinking they“™ve got zero trust now.“ 

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Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, said a recent discussion he moderated for the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council provided insights on cybersecurity, cloud technology and information sharing.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 3, 2020 “” Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), said a new version of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Trusted Internet Connections initiative seeks to transform end-user security in cloud environments, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 13.

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A Zscaler platform built to secure access to the internet and software-as-a-service applications has been designated "In Process" under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

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