Summary
This video addresses the unique challenges multinational organizations face when securing internet traffic for users in China, including compliance risks with the Great Firewall, latency from backhauling traffic, and the complexity of maintaining on-premises security stacks. Henry from Zscaler explains how the Zero Trust Exchange for China Premium solves these issues by combining security-as-a-service with network-as-a-service through partnerships with premium ISPs inside China. The solution positions Zscaler nodes within cross-border ISP data centers, providing full security stack capabilities including secure web gateway, SSL inspection, antivirus, DLP, and firewall services without requiring traffic to route back to corporate data centers. A key differentiator is the ISP-managed traffic split that routes Chinese website traffic to the China internet and global traffic appropriately, eliminating compliance risks associated with cross-border data transmission. Users connect via the Zscaler Client Connector to the nearest node, where Zero Trust contextual checks evaluate user identity, device posture, application access, and traffic content before authorizing connections based on organizational policies.
