A Look into Zscaler’s Cloud Security Kitchen
I recently started working at Zscaler and one of the things that interested me most about Zscaler was their cloud security offering. Offering a Security as a Service (SaaS) platform that includes URL filtering, Cloud Sandboxing, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Next Generation Firewall (NG-FW) and more, is impressive by its own right.
There was one thing that puzzled me, however, and it is probably something that has puzzled prospects as well. How is it possible to have all that functionality, located in a public cloud, and still outperform on premise appliances? I mean, how can latency be lower for doing the same stuff, but off premises.
Luckily, now that I work for Zscaler, I get to look into the kitchen and everything has become clear. There is a lot of optimizing going on. I am not talking about installing a Linux distribution on a box, tweaking the kernel and slapping your service daemon on it. Zscaler does much more than that, and in this post, I will talk about one of those optimiz..