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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FedRAMP Board Prioritizes Zscaler Web Gateway for High-Impact Level Authorization; Stephen Kovac Quoted
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.
Read More »Industry Cyber Experts Call on Agencies to Adopt Zero Trust; Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac Quoted
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.”
Read More »Zscaler Report Finds 260% Rise in Attacks via Encrypted Channels; Deepen Desai Quoted
A new report from Zscaler has found a 260 percent increase in encryption-based threats during the first nine months of 2020. Zscaler’s threat research team analyzed 6.6B encrypted threats delivered through Secure Sockets Layer channels between January and September and found that health care was the most targeted industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by finance and insurance, manufacturing, government and services sectors.
Read More »Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac Talks Updated Trusted Internet Connection Framework as ‘Catalyst’ for Cloud Security
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.
Read More »Zscaler’s Drew Schnabel: Zero Attack Surface Could Help DoD Agencies Secure Distributed IT Environment
Drew Schnabel, vice president of federal at Zscaler, wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on GCN that agencies within the Department of Defense looking to secure their distributed information technology environments and support telework arrangements should consider five attributes and one is having a zero attack surface.
Read More »Zscaler’s Peter Amirkhan: Bandwidth Mgmt, Cloud Prioritization Key to Telework Efficiency
Peter Amirkhan, senior vice president for public sector at Zscaler, has said that implementing a digital structure, prioritizing cloud efforts and adapting hardware infrastructure for telework has helped agencies ensure operational efficiency amid the pandemic.
Read More »1901 Group Partners with Zscaler to Advance Cybersecurity; Peter Amirkhan, Paul Wilkinson Quoted
1901 Group has joined the Zscaler ecosystem as a Public Sector channel partner, 1901 Group reported on Thursday. 1901 Group will leverage the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud platform to help federal agencies adapt to telework with secure access to mission critical applications and data. “Working in FISMA and/or FedRAMP environments takes specialized skill-sets and experience," said Peter Amirkhan, SVP of Public Sector at Zscaler.
Read More »Zscaler’s Stan Lowe: Zero Trust, TIC 3.0, SASE Models Could Help Agencies Improve Cloud Security
Stan Lowe, global chief information security officer at Zscaler, wrote in a commentary published Monday on FCW that adopting Trusted Internet Connection 3.0 guidance, zero trust and Secure Access Service Edge models could help ensure security as they move to the cloud and modernize their information technology infrastructure.
Read More »Zscaler’s Drew Schnabel: DoD Needs Edge-Level Security Approach to Zero-Trust Implementation
Drew Schnabel, vice president of federal at Zscaler, has said the Department of Defense must embrace a zero-trust infrastructure integrated with a framework based on secure edge-level access.
Read More »Zscaler’s Drew Schnabel: Rapid Threat Response, Zero Trust Key to Protecting Gov’t Data
Drew Schnabel, vice president of federal at Zscaler, said that agencies should prioritize cyber threat detection and zero-trust architecture deployment as organizations continue to implement telework operations.
Read More »Zscaler’s Cloud-Based Web Gateway Reaches FedRAMP ‘In Process’ Phase; Drew Schnabel, Stephen Kovac Quoted
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.
Read More »Zscaler’s Patrick Perry: Agencies Need Zero-Trust, Cloud-Based Enterprise IT Approach to Telework
Patrick Perry, director of emerging technology for federal, defense and intelligence community at Zscaler, has said that agencies must consider various factors in cloud implementation as remote work becomes ubiquitous.
Read More »Zscaler’s Patrick Perry on Three Steps Agencies Should Take as They Modernize for the Long Term
Patrick Perry, director of emerging technology for federal DOD/IC at Zscaler, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on FCW that there are three measures agencies should consider as they advance their digital transformation efforts and one is sharing modernization guidelines and lessons learned.
Read More »DIU Taps Zscaler to Pilot Zero-Trust Cloud Mgmt Concept
Zscaler will help the Defense Innovation Unit to develop a prototype zero-trust framework that will enable over 500K Department of Defense users to access software-as-a-service applications off-network, FedScoop reported Monday.
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