What is Zscaler Private Access?
Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) is a cloud-based zero trust solution that securely connects users to private applications hosted in public clouds, data centers, or on-premises environments without relying on traditional VPNs or exposing them to the internet.
Built on the principles of zero trust, ZPA ensures that users are authenticated and authorized before granting access, providing application-specific access rather than exposing the network.
With AI-powered segmentation and identity-based policies, ZPA minimizes the attack surface, makes applications invisible to the internet, and prevents lateral movement. By simplifying access, reducing IT complexity, and improving user experience, ZPA supports modern hybrid work while delivering scalability and performance.
Key Features and Benefits:
- Minimizes the attack surface: Private applications are hidden behind the Zero Trust Exchange, making them invisible and unreachable. Users connect to apps, not the network.
- Eliminates lateral movement: Least-privileged access allows one-to-one user-to-application connections, avoiding network-wide exposure.
- Delivers an exceptional user experience & boosts hybrid workforce productivity: Fast, direct access to apps via 160+ global points of presence ensures low latency and no backhauling, boosting productivity.
- Accelerates the Zero Trust journey with AI-powered user-to-app segmentation: AI/ML generates custom app segmentation recommendations, simplifying user-to-app segmentation.
- Prevents compromised users, insider threats, and advanced attackers: Comprehensive protection for private apps with OWASP Top 10 prevention, inline inspection, advanced threat protection, and data loss prevention.
- Extends Zero Trust to all applications: Enables secure remote access for legacy network connected applications such as VOIP and server-to-client applications, and extranet applications hosted in business partner or vendor networks.
- Ensures Business Continuity and High availability: ZPA Private Service Edge caches policies for zero trust access during internet outages, allowing for secure connectivity and business continuity.
- Accelerates M&A time-to-value without having to integrate networks.
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how ZPA provides access for all users while minimizing the attack surface, eliminating lateral movement, and stopping zero day threats. A cloud native service, ZPA can be deployed in just hours to replace legacy remote access tools like VPNs and VDIs.
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| Supported Languages | English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese |
FAQs
What is Zscaler Private Access?
Zscaler Private Access™ (ZPA) gives users secure access to private apps and OT devices while enabling zero trust connectivity for workloads.
What are Zscaler Private Access's top competitors?
Cisco AnyConnect, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access, duplicate, and Ivanti Secure Unified Client are common alternatives for Zscaler Private Access.