Zero trust and breach containment in an agentic world - Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry on the new stakes of threat defense
As AI security drama hijacks enterprise news cycles with unsettling regularity, I keep coming back to my conversation with Zscaler.
Billed as an "AI security platform built on zero trust," Zscaler is the perfect foil for everything that is preoccupies me with AI security:
- Will AI ultimately help defenders as much as attackers? (Even with the concerning Hugging Face attack from an OpenAI agent run amok, Hugging Face's defense included a Chinese AI model).
- Why do companies struggle to contain breaches, before they turn into massive credential exposures?
Zscaler data findings - "a critical gap between innovation and security"
My foil? Good sport Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Founder and Chairman of Zscaler. Some data points:
Zscaler began the year with its 2026 threat report, which cited an 83 percent year-over-year rise in AI usage, "creating a critical security gap between innovation and security."
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