Securing the AI workforce: Zscaler’s zero-trust play for agentic AI

Since Zscaler Inc.‘s launch, the company’s mission has been to disrupt traditional access and security with its Zero Trust platform. At its user event, Zenith Live, in Las Vegas, the company made its case for what its next act would look like: becoming the foundational “zero trust for agentic AI” platform.

For enterprises, the keynote by Chief Executive Jay Chaudhry (pictured) highlighted that securing artificial intelligence agents, including their connections, data paths and device footprint, is now a board-level architectural decision, not a bolt-on control, and that this will require a rethinking of security.

Here are my top takeaways from Chaudhry’s day 1 keynote at Zenith Live:

Agentic AI as the new risk plane