Cloud security vendor Zscaler has gained “Protected” status from the Australian Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP), following the completion of a second assessment. The accreditation means the company is authorised to serve Australian Government departments and agencies. While not required to sell to government, the assessment is a de facto baseline for companies wishing to serve agencies and departments. The new assessment is for Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange and follows a previous assessment completed in early 2020, which gave the vendor’s cloud security platform the status of ‘official sensitive’. The IRAP process is documented in the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM).