Zenith Live 2025: Key Insights & Takeaways
ivision was a proud sponsor of Zenith Live 2025, Zscaler’s premier learning conference. As a Zscaler Managed Security Services Provider, we’re thrilled about the exciting updates and insights we took away from this event. Let’s break down some of the key takeaways and how they empower us to better serve our clients.
Key Themes
- Zero Trust Everywhere & Data Security for All
Zscaler is committed to expanding Zero Trust to users, workloads, IoT/OT, and B2B ecosystems. This focus helps protect organizational “crown jewels” in a hybrid, mobile-first world. It also allows for enhanced performance visibility through new ZDX capabilities.
- AI-Powered Security Enhancements
Zscaler is enabling AI-driven data classification across 200+ sensitive types, as well as identity-based microsegmentation with AI. They’re also implementing new AI guardrails for generative AI, including Copilot, and they launched Private AI Guard to protect internal LLMs in regulated industries.
Product Innovations & Roadmaps
- New & Upcoming Capabilities
Zscaler will be offering IoT/OT Zero Trust with SIM cards for cars, cranes, rail sensors, etc., where Wi-Fi is unavailable. Through ZDX and AI network intelligence, they shared new insights into ISP and last-mile issues with proactive outage detection and resolution. They also discussed new AI protections and expanded data protection use cases.
- Edge & Branch Security
Zscaler launched Zero Trust Branch Appliance to eliminate legacy firewalls and secure distributed offices. With the Zscaler Cloud Gateway, they also offer converged network and security edge for simplified SASE delivery.
Zscaler Ecosystem & Services
- Red Canary Integration
Zscaler announced their acquisition of Red Canary for the company’s AI tech, as well as their MDR services. This will significantly reduce investigation times, limiting threat exposure further. They also have a growing emphasis on tap integrations for real-time visibility and control.
Partner Insights
- Zscaler will be focusing on product and platform technology in 2025 and beyond, leveraging more support from partners for services.
- Firewall refresh cycles are guiding customers toward SASE and Zero Trust architecture.
- Businesses are continuing to consolidate to the Zscaler platform beyond ZIA, ZPA, and ZDX
- Zscaler Health Checks assessments were key to organizations’ success in 2024 and will continue to play a prominent role.
Conclusion
In summary, this event highlighted Zscaler’s commitment to evolve beyond ZIA/ZPA into a full Zero Trust platform for users, workloads, and partners. With heavy investment and focus on AI, hyperscaler-native delivery, and vertical expansion, Zscaler is positioning itself for deep account expansion, firewall displacement, and platform consolidations. CIOs and security leaders should position themselves to leverage this momentum, especially when it comes to partner-led services, refresh cycles, and business outcome selling.
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