Zscaler’s Cloud Collective IT Heroes Series 2026

Real-WorldStories.LegendaryImpact. Real-WorldStories.LegendaryImpact.

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Heroesarethearchitectsbehindboldtransformation,movingbeyondlegacydefensestoembraceazerotrustfuture.

Throughillustratedstorytelling,wehighlightthepeopleandteamsdrivingrealchangeattheirorganizations: simplifyingcomplexity,strengtheningresilience,enablingteamstoworksecurelyfromanywhere,and securingacceleratedAIinnovationtodayandinthefuture.

Everystoryisaglimpseintothemomentswhereinnovationmeetsaction,whereprotectingusers,data,and experiencesbecomesmorethanamission—itbecomesalegacy.

Stories. Legendary Impact. Stories. Legendary Impact.

redefining what modern security looks like. These Zscaler IT transformation, moving beyond legacy defenses to embrace a zerofuture. people and teams driving real change at their organizations: enabling teams to work securely from anywhere, and innovation today and in the future. innovation meets action, where protecting users, data, and than a mission—it becomes a legacy.

Eaton’s future is in the cloud, and our perimeter-based architecture can’t get us there securely or efficiently.

Comprehensive visibility along with automated threat discovery and response bolster security at Eaton’s manufacturing operations across 170 countries.

Zscaler ensures our 90,000+ seamlessly connect employees can safely internet and private apps.

Plus, with AIpowered Zero Trust threat detection and app we're reducing segmentation, accelerating risk while our cloud-first strategy!

“Zscaler's

ability to communicate with top endpoint, cloud, and network detection and response solutions enables us to see all our security data in one dashboard.”

Jason Koler, CISO, Eaton Corporation

Our risky castle-and-moat security was holding back our potential. To become a more agile, future-ready organization, we needed to modernize our architecture.

Zuora simplifies its security stack and saves $.5M+ by phasing out 10+ legacy solutions, including 3 VPN appliances.

Zero trust is the clear achieving all our security business goals!

clear path to security and goals!

Zscaler helped Zuora close its security gaps and extend fast, reliable zero trust connections to apps and resourcesenabling happier, more productive users!

“Zscaler is the backbone of our zero trust strategy. It helps us be more secure and allows us to scale securely and innovate without compromise.”

Siva Vadakandra, Director of Security and Infrastructure, Zuora

Replacing WANs and VPNs lowered the cost of connectivity by 64% while optimizing secure county-wide collaboration.

Oxfordshire County Council simplicity of zero trust. broke free from legacy

for the speed, security, and limits and moved to Zscaler

“With Zscaler, we’ve reached to as the ‘golden silence.’ Staff support requests have dramatically because everything Stewart Griffiths, Principal Oxfordshire County

reached what my team refers Staff complaints and dramatically reduced everything just works”

Technical Architect, County Council

As Cushman’s workforce became more and more mobile, VPNs and wreckage across the org. firewalls risked causing

Zscaler makes it easy for the technical team to focus on the risks that matter most by streamlining and automating exposure management.

Zscaler helped us build an impenetrable, cloud-first defense to stop threats before they strike.

Now, our 52,000 employees nothing can break through. anywhere connect securely from _ and they know

“By

integrating zero trust, exposure management, and threat management, Zscaler is helping us modernize security operations for better protection.”

Erik Hart, CISO, Cushman & Wakefield

OUR LEGACY ARCHITECTURE BUILT ON FIREWALLS/VPNS EXPOSED OUR NETWORK TO TOO MANY THREATS.

ZSCALER GIVES US SECURITY THAT SCALES TO NO LIMITS, WHILE SHRINKING OUR SURFACE.

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Consistent security and reliable connectivity for users on 2 million+ devices delivers a high-quality educational experience for everyone.

“We needed a holistic solution strengthen our visibility, faster, and simplify management partners. We found exactly Demond Waters, CISO, Department of

SECURITY LIMITS, ATTACK

NOW 1M+ STUDENTS AND STAFF CAN ACCESS THE INTERNET, SAAS, AND PRIVATE APPS WITHOUT RISK.

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solution that would visibility, help identify issues management across exactly that in Zscaler.”

CISO, New York City of Education

SAFEGUARDING OUR NETWORK MEANS SECURING THEIR FUTURE

Legacy VPNs and firewalls lack stability i can’t provide consistent controls or threat protection to secure our IP.

By eliminating fragmented point products, Micron simplified security management and slashed operational overhead by 50%.

Zscaler's cloud native architecture scales across our multicloud to secure our workloads,

“Zscaler has accelerated reduced risk, and ensured This scalable solution helps management, and reduces overhead.”

Chris Harlow, Senior Technical Security,

Micron

architecture easily multicloud environment users, and data.

accelerated business activities, ensured business continuity. helps us grow, simplifies reduces operational overhead.”

Technical Manager, IT

Micron Technology

Now, we’ve greatly improved user experience and our security posture, all while maintaining business continuity!

Encora fortifies security in its all-SaaS enterprise with granular situational rules while ensuring a zero-latency user experience.

“With Zscaler, from anywhere, security

Zscaler, employees can now work anywhere, with a consistent level of security across the organization.”

Agarwal, Head of IT Infrastructure and Global Systems Architect, Encora

Our legacy architecture backhauled traffic through centralized security controls, causing a bottleneck that was slowing us down.

By replacing vulnerable VPNs with microsegmented app access and using AIpowered insights for real-time risk awareness, Washington D.C.’s city government elevates its security posture.

“The partnership invaluable for us. record speeds, onboarded and enhanced

Now our 15,000+ users can securely access the internet and missioncritical private apps at record speeds. partnership with Zscaler has been us. We deployed the platform at onboarded users more effectively enhanced the user experience.”

Suneel Cherukuri, CISO, D.C. Government

Since switching to a modern cloud-first approach, user experience has never been better!

EXPENSIVE SD-WAN, FIREWALLS, AND VPNS LEFT BIOIVT BLIND AND EXPOSED TO EMERGING THREATS.

Zero trust decreases M&A integration time from 180 days to just 48 hours and reduces cyber insurance costs by 20%.

CISO CHAD PALLETT TOSSED THE FIREWALLS IN THE TRASH AND MOVED TO ZSCALER FOR STRONGER SECURITY POSTURE.

“Deploying Zero Trust Branch is a win-win for everyone. It shrinks the attack surface, benefits our bottom line, and provides users with uninterrupted service.”

Chad Pallett, Acting CISO, BioIVT

Inter's cloud-first commitment fueled growth, but it made security more complex. Our legacy stack had gaps and slowed us down.

Zscaler protects our multicloud and data, and delivers adaptive access for our global workforce.

Zscaler securely accelerates Banco Inter’s global expansion, protecting 33+ PB of data and reducing risk exposure by $4.25M/year

“We speed Zscaler

multicloud workloads adaptive zero trust workforce.

Now we move fast while secure. Our staying can innovate developers safely as we scale worldwide.

“We needed to balance rapid expansion and the of innovation with a robust security posture. Zscaler enables us to be both fast-moving and secure.”

Lucas Bernardes, CISO, Inter

AMN achieves cost-effective true zero trust with Zscaler, providing secure access to apps and digital services for 5,000 staff and 10,000+ clients.

”The Zscaler provide end-to-end a pre-integrated,

Zscaler platform is designed to end-to-end zero trust security as pre-integrated, single solution that saves money.”

Masood, Head of Information Security, AMN Healthcare

As a leading health insurer, we need our employees, physicians, and partners to have secure access to our systems anytime, anywhere.

Replacing our slow, inherently risky VPNs with Zscaler ensures our patients, their data, and our organization stay agile and secure.

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Zscaler delivers fast, secure access to internal apps to all Sanitas users, including its 114 partners, with no need to connect to data centers.

“Employees

can work from home a transparent, flexible, super without those barriers we solutions.”

Antonio Cerezo Hormeño, Cybersecurity, Europe &

home or the office in super agile way and we had with other solutions.”

Hormeño, Head of & LATAM, Sanitas

Now, our 15,000 users get stronger security and seamless access wherever they are, with no need for a VPN!

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