Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the cybersecurity platform for the AI era, has introduced Zscaler Agentic SOC, a security operations approach designed to proactively reduce exposures, extend the capabilities of security teams, and contain AI-driven attacks at machine speed.
As threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate attacks, traditional security operations models face growing challenges in correlating, investigating, and remediating threats quickly enough. Zscaler Agentic SOC is designed specifically for modern security operations, using an AI-first architecture to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at machine speed rather than simply adding AI capabilities to existing security tools.
The current threat environment is increasingly characterized by speed, stealth, and evasive techniques. Threatlabz, Zscaler’s global research team, has observed growing use of trusted websites to host attacks, legitimate remote management tools being abused by threat actors, and browser-based attack techniques. Zscaler Agentic SOC addresses these challenges by combining Zscaler telemetry, the world’s largest decoy mesh network, expert-validated AI agents, integrated Zscaler Zero Trust controls, and customers’ third-party security controls to identify threats earlier and automate containment.
Zscaler has partnered with leading frontier AI labs, including Anthropic and OpenAI, to power its Agentic SOC capabilities. Their frontier models are combined with Zscaler’s proprietary threat intelligence and zero trust telemetry to support AI agents capable of deeper reasoning, greater accuracy, and improved explainability compared with relying on a single model or methodology.
The platform also extends beyond threat detection. Through Zscaler’s open platform approach, security teams can integrate frontier models directly into their environments, ingest vulnerability findings, and incorporate those findings into existing SOC workflows. The approach is intended to leverage advanced AI capabilities while maintaining the speed, reliability, and transparency required for security operations.
“AI-driven attacks are moving faster than traditional SOC models were ever designed to handle,” said Deepen Desai, Executive Vice President of Cybersecurity at Zscaler. “Agentic SOC is a fundamental rethinking of security operations, built with agentic capabilities at its core to reduce exposures proactively, extend human expertise with AI agents and contain threats at machine speed. With unmatched inline telemetry, specialized AI agents and closed-loop remediation, Zscaler is giving security teams the visibility and control they need to outpace modern attackers.”
“The past year has made one thing clear: AI attacks are fundamentally changing the threat landscape, operating at a speed, scale, and level of adaptability that looks very different from traditional human-led activity,” said Allie Mellen, principal analyst and author of Code War: How Nations Hack, Spy, and Shape the Digital Battlefield. “To defend effectively, organizations must double down on the fundamentals — Zero Trust principles, preventing data exfiltration, limiting access, and making AI attacks as expensive as possible.”
Reimagining SecOps: The Zscaler Differentiation
- Unified exposure and threat management: Zscaler brings proactive attack surface reduction and reactive threat defense together on a single platform, providing additional context for security teams and helping accelerate protection.
- Unmatched zero trust telemetry: Operating inline, Zscaler collects network, identity, endpoint, cloud, and AI insights across 750 billion daily zero trust transactions, providing security teams with telemetry that can be used for real-time threat detection and response.
- Specialized AI agents built on frontline experience: Zscaler AI agents have been trained and continuously refined using more than 10 years of frontline SOC, managed detection and response, and threat-hunting experience, supported by threat intelligence gathered from thousands of customer environments worldwide.
- Closed-loop inline remediation: Zscaler can automatically contain threats at machine speed using native inline controls to isolate compromised users, block command-and-control communications, and prevent lateral movement. Integrations with customers’ third-party tools also enable additional response options for active threats requiring more nuanced actions.
“Our team was drowning in alert noise, forcing top analysts into triage instead of proactive threat hunting,” said Andrea Liccardi, Sr. Cybersecurity Manager, Maire Tecnimont. “Zscaler Agentic SOC gives us full attack-path context using telemetry we already had in place, helping our team move from fragmented signals to faster, more informed decisions. Zscaler has proven to be one of our most valuable cybersecurity partners, continuously helping us improve operational efficiency, visibility, and our ability to focus our analysts on what really matters.”
Open Platform Integration
Zscaler Agentic SOC is designed to work with existing security environments by incorporating third-party data to provide additional context around risks and threats. The platform can also initiate automated outbound actions, helping organizations proactively address exposures and contain attacks at machine speed.
Key Features of Zscaler Agentic SOC
- Data-rich context graph: Combines real-time zero trust telemetry with third-party data to map relationships, prioritize risks, and investigate complex incident chains.
- Specialized AI agents: Autonomous agents handle specific security operations functions, including triage, root-cause investigation, verdict assignment, and response workflow initiation, helping reduce analyst workload and accelerate defensive actions.
- Advanced detections informed by threat intelligence: Uses frontline threat research together with extensive telemetry to identify sophisticated attacks earlier and improve detection precision.
- Continuous threat hunting and expert support: Combines the speed of AI-driven analysis with human expertise from Zscaler and Red Canary security professionals.
Availability and Additional Information
Zscaler Agentic SOC is now available globally. Additional information is available through the global launch webinar or at zscaler.com/solutions/agentic-secops.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are based on our management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. These forward-looking statements include the expected adoption, performance and benefits of Zscaler Agentic SOC, including its AI agents, third-party integrations and automated threat-containment and remediation capabilities. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A significant number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from statements made in this press release, including those factors related to Zscaler’s ability to deliver and achieve customer adoption of Zscaler Agentic SOC and the performance and effectiveness of its AI-driven and automated capabilities. Additional risks and uncertainties are set forth in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on September 3, 2026, which is available on our website at ir.zscaler.com and on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements in this release are based on the limited information currently available to Zscaler as of the date hereof, which is subject to change, and Zscaler will not necessarily update the information, even if new information becomes available in the future.
About Zscaler
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across over 200 public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.
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