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How Zscaler is cracking APAC’s cloud security market

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When Scott Robertson, Zscaler’s senior vice-president of Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ), first joined the cloud security hotshot in 2015, cloud security was very much its infancy in the region. It wasn’t until cloud adoption started to accelerate in the later years that the company started to see growing demand for its services.

Today, APJ is Zscaler’s fastest growing region, with revenue growth of 88% year over year during the fourth quarter of its 2022 fiscal year. Much of its growth has been spurred by the rise of hybrid work amid the pandemic, and a shift towards cloud-based applications.

In a wide-ranging interview with Computer Weekly, Robertson talks up the company’s growth momentum in APJ, how organisations are using its services and what it is doing to address areas where it can do better.

Tell me more about Zscaler and the genesis of the company.

Scott Robertson: When I joined Zscaler 2015, cloud security was relatively unknown in Asia-Pacific. It was far more prevalent in markets like the US or Europe, where connectivity between countries was strong.

Almost eight years since I joined, I’ve seen a complete transformation in demand with organisations adopting cloud at a growing rate. It typically starts with applications and today, those applications are either software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications or being moved to cloud. The destination for the user is no longer your network – it’s some public destination. Zscaler realised this early on and that’s why Jay Chaudhry, our CEO and founder, built this company.

He was thinking: ‘Why am I building servers in my office to host all these applications? Why wouldn’t I just lease the servers and the applications, put them somewhere else and not have to pay for the power and everything else to manage them? And so, we thought as those applications make that transformation, that’s where Zscaler has an opportunity.

How do you see the Asia-Pacific market as a whole?

Robertson: Certain markets like Australia and New Zealand adopt new technologies more rapidly. Many companies from the US invest in Australia first because it’s a similar market and then they branch out to other key markets. I feel…

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WiFi Password Cracking in 6 Minutes and 4 Seconds

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The Challenge of Cracking Iran’s Internet Blockade

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Some communication services have systems in place for attempting to skirt digital blockades. The secure messaging app Signal, for example, offers tools so people around the world can set up proxy servers that securely relay Signal traffic to bypass government filters. Proxy service has previously only been available for Signal on Android, but the platform added iOS support on Wednesday. 

Still, if people in Iran don’t already have the Signal app installed on their phones or haven’t registered their phone numbers, the connectivity outages make it difficult to download the app or receive the SMS code used for account setup. Android users who can’t connect to Google Play can also download the app directly from Signal’s website, but this creates the possibility that malicious versions of the Signal app could circulate on other forums and trick people into downloading them. In an attempt to address this, the Signal Foundation created the email address “[email protected]” that people can message to request a safe copy of the app. 

The anonymity service Tor is largely inaccessible in Iran, but some activists are working to establish Tor bridges within Iran to connect internal country networks to the global platform. The work is difficult without infrastructure and resources, though, and is extremely dangerous if the regime detects the activity. Similarly, other efforts to establish clandestine infrastructure within the country are fraught because they often require too much technical expertise for a layperson to carry out safely. Echoing the issue with safely downloading apps like Signal, it can also be difficult for people to determine whether circumvention measures they learn about are legitimate or tainted.

Users in Iran have also been leaning on other services that have proxies built in. For example, Firuzeh Mahmoudi, executive director of the US-based nonprofit United for Iran, says that the law enforcement-tracking app Gershad has been in heavy use during the connectivity blackouts. The app, which has been circulating in Iran since 2016 and is now developed by United for Iran, lets users crowdsource information about the movements of the regime’s “morality…

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Remote Command Execution Explained and Demonstrated!

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