an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message zscaler inc. type private industry network security computer security internet security founded 2008 headquarters san jose california united states area served worldwide key people jay chaudhry ceo william welch cro atri chatterjee cmo amit sinha cto kailash founder number of employees more than 500 citation needed website www.zscaler.com zscaler is a global cloud based information security company that provides internet security web security next generation firewalls sandboxing ssl inspection antivirus vulnerability management and granular control of user activity in cloud computing mobile and internet of things environments . 1 as of 2015 zscaler provides automated threat forensics and dynamic malware protection against advanced cyber threats such as advanced persistent threats and spear phishing for more than 6 000 corporate government and military organizations with more than 15 million paying users . it provides a cloud based approach to security as a service . contents 1 history fundraising and valuation 2 deployments 3 technology 4 security as a service platform 5 additional products 5.1 zscaler for advanced persistent threats 5.2 zscaler private access 5.3 zscaler next generation firewall 5.4 zscaler web security 5.5 zscaler cloud application security 5.6 zscaler security preview 5.7 zscaler mobile security 6 technology partnerships 7 global carrier adoption 8 recognition 8.1 2008 8.2 2009 8.3 2011 8.4 2012 8.5 2013 8.6 2014 8.7 2015 8.8 2016 9 ssl traffic considerations 10 references history fundraising and valuation edit the company was founded in 2008 by jay chaudhry a serial security entrepreneur that previously founded and later sold airdefense ciphertrust coreharbor and secureit 2 and kailash the former chief architect of netscaler . the company is unique among the private technology company unicorns in that it is almost entirely self funded has significant recurring revenue is cash flow positive and is more than doubling its business year over year . in 2012 zscaler raised 5 million in venture capital from lightspeed venture partners plus received a strategic investment from emc corporation as part of a 38 million expansion round . 3 zscaler has a reported company valuation of well north of 1 billion . 4 on august 3 zscaler announced a 100 million pre ipo fundraising led by tpg capital growth . on september 23 2015 zscaler announced that the 100mm round had been oversubscribed and has been raised to 110 million including a 25 million investment from google capital . 5 deployments edit zscaler is unusual for a software as a service company in that it started out serving the very high end of the market and is now growing downward most saas companies start with the mid market and grow upward . as of 2015 more than 50 of the fortune 500 are standardized on zscaler for their internet security . the company s largest deployment is the national health services of the uk with 1.6 million employees protected by zscaler . this is reported to be the largest saas deployment of any kind in the world . other large organizations that have deployed zscaler include general electric united airlines air france barclays procter and gamble nestle huawei vmware nbc newscorp the state of north carolina the united states marines and nato . technology edit zscaler is a cloud based information security platform delivered through what is reportedly the world s largest security cloud of more than 100 global data centers and more than 1 000 points of presence . to use zscaler internet traffic from fixed locations such as branch offices or factories roaming laptops tablets and mobile phones and internet of things devices is routed through zscaler points of presence before going on to the public internet . localized data centers store security policies that can be pushed worldwide in seconds following users as they travel around the globe to enforce these policies without latency . 6 zscaler serves as a cloud based proxy and firewall routing all traffic through its software to apply corporate and security policies eliminating the time and money companies spend managing web filtering data leakage protection ssl inspection advanced threat protection and security on its own servers . zscaler is designed to address the challenge of managing security in a world where cloud computing mobility and the internet of things are eroding the network perimeter . 2 zscaler centralizes administration of users and policies on a single web interface with a simple visualization . zscaler can provide comprehensive user reports in nearly real time and is constantly gathering global threat data to protect its customers . 6 security as a service platform edit most security products have historically been point solutions deployed as hardware appliances zscaler is very different as a cloud based security as a service platform that requires no on premises or on device hardware or software . zscaler is a broad platform integrating many different security applications from web security to next generation firewall ssl decryption and inspection data leakage protection intrusion detection and advanced threat protection so it can also be thought of as cloud based carrier grade globally deployed unified threat management system . additional products edit zscaler for advanced persistent threats edit zscaler for apts provides protection from zero day attacks and advanced persistent threats by combining proactive protection against known threats file based behavioral analysis and sandboxing botnet detection and blocking data exfiltration detection and blocking plus security analytics such as threat intelligence feeds . 7 zscaler for apts consolidates the commoditized features of existing security appliances to protect detect and remediate advanced security threats . 8 zscaler s cloud based sandboxing is unique in that it is ultimately based on a terminating proxy this means that it can quarantine files for inspection instead of only making pass block decisions . this prevents the patient 0 problem associated with sandboxing appliances like fireeye and next generation firewalls like palo alto networks that pass the first instance of an unrecognized new file allow the infection to take place and alert later if the file turns out to be malicious . zscaler private access edit zscaler private access launched in 2016 is a service that enables organizations to provide access to internal applications and services while ensuring the security of their networks . it uses the global zscaler cloud infrastructure to enable application access independent of network access . it also decouples applications from the physical network to deliver granular per user access to application software and services running in the internal corporate network in a datacenter or in a public cloud . the service is based on zscaler s global cloud so there is no requirement for additional hardware or forklift upgrades of existing hardware enabling rapid and unobtrusive adoption to support business needs . this enables an enterprise to allow employees customers and business partners to securely access internal applications without any need for code refactoring or implementing hardware . 9 zscaler next generation firewall edit zscaler next generation firewall is an application and user aware firewall that provides visibility and control over network traffic . it is unique in that it is entirely cloud based and does not require any on premises hardware or software making it suited for protecting branch offices retail stores factories remote location mobile devices and internet of things deployments . zscaler next generation firewall also includes traditional firewall capabilities such as control over network ports and protocols . zscaler web security edit zscaler web security is a secure web gateway which also includes a web filter that runs on top of the zscaler security as a service platform . in the spring of 2015 both gartner group and forrester research ranked zscaler web security at the upper right of their magic quadrant and wave reports respectively . zscaler web security primarily competes with hardware appliances for web security from blue coat systems websense and cisco . as the information technology landscape has been shifting away from on premises software and toward cloud computing the product is reported to have replaced more than two million seats formerly protected by blue coat systems and websense security appliances . zscaler cloud application security edit in 2015 zscaler introduced cloud application security capabilities designed to provide security access management visibility and policy based controls over saas and cloud computing applications . gartner group is promoting the acronym casb cloud access security broker to describe this category of functionality . pure play casb vendors also plug into zscaler s platform to provide additional capabilities such as shadow it application discovery . zscaler security preview edit in 2014 zscaler released a free html5 based network security testing tool called zscaler security preview . zscaler security preview runs a suite of automated tests that inspects an organization s network security posture from the perspective of the client device that is running the test . for example it tests to see whether virus samples hosted on content delivery networks are blocked it attempts to exfiltrate valid payment card and social security numbers and it detects whether communications with servers in prohibited countries such as north korea and iran are blocked . the tool is useful to quickly understand whether current network security infrastructure is properly implemented and configured . zscaler mobile security edit zscaler mobile security extends its real time analysis and protection to mobile devices in byod environments by routing mobile traffic through its global cloud . 10 zscaler mobile security provides visibility into mobile application traffic protection from web based threats and rogue applications and policy enforcement on mobile devices . 11 technology partnerships edit zscaler integrates with single sign on providers including azure ad rsa okta onelogin and ping identity to enable simplified cloud application security . 12 zscaler integrates with mobile device management mdm vendors including airwatch and mobileiron to enhance mdm with mobile security . 13 zscaler integrates with security information and event management siem vendors including hpe arcsight ibm qradar and splunk enabling data analysis digital security forensics and compliance with industry and government regulations . 14 global carrier adoption edit close to 50 % of zscaler s business is touched by one of the global telephone companies . as of 2015 at & t verizon british telecom orange business services and swisscom are all actively reselling zscaler as part of their networking and security services . in january 2015 zscaler closed a nearly 10 000 000 transaction at a global 100 manufacturing company with british telecom . carrier adoption of zscaler within very large distributed enterprises is tightly tied to cloud enabled networking which is the elimination of traffic backhaul across multiprotocol label switching networks in which network traffic is broken out locally via commodity internet connections to local zscaler data centers instead of being backhauled to corporate data centers over mpls typically resulting in 80 % to 95 % reduction in mpls traffic with commensurate reduction in wide area networking costs . recognition edit 2008 edit zscaler was named startup of the week by informationweek 15 2009 edit zscaler was named a cool vendors in software as a service security 2009 by gartner 16 2011 edit zscaler was named a cool vendors in cloud security services 2011 by gartner . 17 zscaler was named a leader in the gartner magic quadrant for secure web gateway . 18 zscaler was named an emerging vendor 2011 security vendors by crn . 19 zscaler was named a best web content management finalist in the sc magazine 20 2012 edit zscaler was named a leader in the gartner magic quadrant for secure web gateways . 21 zscaler was named an emerging vendor 2012 security vendors by crn . 22 zscaler ceo jay chaudhry was named a the top 25 disrupters of 2012 by crn . 23 2013 edit zscaler was named a leader in the gartner magic quadrant for secure web gateways