Zero Trust Made Simple: 5 Steps to Effective Microsegmentation

What is Zscaler Microsegmentation?

Zero Trust segmentation is an innovative architecture designed to help security professionals segment workloads across data centers, private clouds, and public cloud environments—without relying on traditional firewalls or specialized appliances.

Unlike legacy approaches focused on securing networks, Zero Trust segmentation protects workloads by connecting applications, enforcing policies based on least privileged access, and blocking unauthorized lateral movement. This ensures consistent protection for workloads deployed anywhere in your environment.

Key points:

• What is Zscaler Microsegmentation?
• How Zero Trust Segmentation Differs from Traditional Approaches
• Understanding Zero Trust-Based Segmentation
• 5 Critical Steps to Deploy Zero Trust Segmentation