Cloud security provider Zscaler on April 20 revealed a number of innovations for its Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform designed to help organizations improve cybersecurity. This isnât just a product update; the company announced new solutions but also resources for IT leaders and practitioners as well as deployment guides to speed up zero-trust adoption. Itâs the combination of these offerings that will help companies modernize their approach to security and bring threat protection into the digital era. Digital transformation drives the need for zero trust The rapid uptake of digital transformation initiatives has changed the way businesses operate, serve customers and come to market. Digitization momentum was strong pre-pandemic, but COVID-19 accelerated plans by years in some cases as companies were forced to find new ways of functioning. This created faster-than-expected adoption of cloud applications, SD-WAN and work from home shifting the corporate network away from private MPLS services to the public internet. While this created unprecedented agility, it also opened up a number of new threat vectors and put companies at risk driving the need for zero trust.