Tag: Zscaler

Rubrik hires another Zscaler

Security outfit, Rubrik has appointed Ismail Elmas as GVP of international business.

The former Zscaler GVP is the second Zscaler staff member to be poached. This year, Rubrik hired Sean Sullivan from the Zscaler ranks to lead its sales strategy development and support for service providers in EMEA.

Rubrik CRO Brian McCarthy said Elmas will build and scale Rubrik’s international business.

“His expertise and skill set is a great fit for our vision as we accelerate our market strategies to deliver cyber resilience to our customers worldwide,” McCarthy said.

Zscaler descales 177 employees

Cybersecurity firm Zscaler is to lay off three per cent of its workforce, or about 177 employees.

Cloudy Zscaler doubled the size of its team to approximately 5,900 employees as it tried to expand during the good times.

Zscaler CFO Remo Canessa said it has undertaken a “targeted optimisation initiative to address inefficiencies in certain job functions and projects,” leading to the three per cent workforce reduction,.

The disclosure came as the company reported results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2023, ended 31 January. Zscaler’s stock price fell 11.8 per cent in after-hours trading Thursday, to $118.32 per share.

Westcon-Comstor expands distie agreement with Zscaler

Westcon-Comstor has expanded its distribution agreement with cloud security outfit Zscaler.

The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is already part of Westcon-Comstor’s product list but this expansion of the agreement, brings Zscaler’s Zero Trust offering to new markets throughout Europe.

Zscaler’s proxy-based architecture, built on an industry-leading SASE. It reduces the attack surface by directly connecting users to applications, via a Zero Trust approach.

Zscaler Vice President EMEA and APJ Alliances Arun Dharmalingam said that the things were at a point where the SMB community is actively looking to double down on cybersecurity in the modern distributed cloud environment.

“High profile attacks have been regularly hitting the news and the pandemic has, for a variety of reasons, increased the attack surface of SMBs resulting in a greater impetus to get cybersecurity right”, he said.

Cloud faces fresh security risks

netthingsA report from Zscaler examines security threats ahead and said the diversity of devices used to access data make it difficult for organisations to stay ahead.

The Zscaler 2014 Security Cloud Forecast says that attacks on DNS servers are increasing and one of the problems is that “tens of thousands” of Internet DNS are not secured. And attackers use DNS techniques mimicking load balancing, with malware using DNS to conceal command and control networks. Companies, in 2014 should monitor DNS traffic, particularly on new domains.

Cloud services rely on HTPPS and SSL for encryption but by the end of this year, the industry standard will become 2048-bit keys rather than 1024 bit.  Visibility becomes as much as five times more difficult with this move.   SSL will be enabled by default for many web services next year.

The move to BYOD – bring your own device – is “the weakest link”, said Zscaler.  When businesses move corporate data to the cloud and people use mobile devices there is no real security appliance between data and device. Zscaler warns to expect mobile attacks using email, web and malicious third party apps.

And the “internet of things” also brings its own problems, Zscaler warns.  Accessing these multiple devices using smartphones is insecure but there is no minimum base level security in place. “In 2014, attackers will make attempts on the internet of things in homes, businesses and in critical pieces of infrastructure,” the report concludes.