Zscaler Adds Partners For SaaS-Based Security Service, Ups Battle Against Websense

Grazed from CRN. Author: Robert Westervelt.

Zscaler is pushing past its SaaS-based Web filtering technology, extending its add-on services to include licenses for cloud-based antimalware, data loss prevention and secure Wi-Fi services and aiming at Websense customers eager to shed outdated on-premise appliances.

Partners say the San Jose, Calif.-based vendor has been a solid choice for companies that are ripping out legacy, on-premise secure Web gateways that primarily were used for URL filtering capabilities to gain end-user productivity improvements. By tweaking DNS settings to send traffic through Zscaler’s platform, companies gain the same Web filtering controls and protection against known malicious websites, said Mark Robinson, president of Findlay, Ohio-based solution provider CentraComm, which has partnered with Zscaler for about three years…

"Content filtering is a perfect security service to have in the cloud because I think people are comfortable with that type of service being there," Robinson said, adding that Zscaler has been a winner in the midmarket where companies are more eager to shed on-premise servers for cloud-based services as part of cost-cutting measures…

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