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Zscaler, Inc., a provider of cybersecurity platforms for the AI era , announced two strategic investments that will significantly expand its AI security capabilities for enterprises in the age of AI agents. First, Zscaler announced its intention to acquire Symmetry Systems, Inc., a pioneer in identity mapping and data access in AI security. The company secures its operations by combining zero trust and access graph technology to map communications between AI agents. Second, Zscaler launched “Project AI-Guardian,” which expands strategic partnerships with leading global system integrator (GSI) partners, including Cognizant, EY, HCLTech, Infosys, TCS, and Wipro, to help enterprises navigate the complexities of the AI-driven environment.
As enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI, traditional security models, built for human users, fail to account for the use of autonomous agents. Meanwhile, AI agents operate autonomously across multiple systems, using temporary identities and inherited privileges, and their numbers are exponentially increasing. As a result, significant blind spots exist regarding what data they are accessing, why, and on whose behalf. Policies that worked for users do not apply to non-human applications, data, and millions of autonomous agents communicating with one another. At the same time, as AI agents and autonomous workloads accelerate organizations into an “agent-driven world,” the attack surface is also expanding exponentially, creating indirect prompt injection pathways and privilege chains that extend far beyond existing controls. Zscaler’s two announcements address both sides of this challenge: the technological foundation and implementation expertise that enterprises need to deploy AI securely at scale.
The acquisition of Symmetry Systems gives Zscaler access graph technology that ingests enterprise-wide access logs across SaaS applications, public cloud services, data stores, and AI systems, and uses AI-powered correlation analysis to visualize which identities are accessing which data and how. Combined with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™, this enables secure deployment of AI agents, new capabilities such as building least privilege policies for AI, tracking complete data lineage, instantly detecting and containing anomalies, and calculating the scope of damage in the event of agent or identity compromises. Subject to general closing conditions, the transaction is expected to close in the near future.
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Through “Project AI-Guardian,” GSI partners will leverage Zscaler’s AI Protect portfolio (including AI Asset Management, Secure Access to AI, and Secure AI Infrastructure and Apps) to build expert AI discovery and risk mitigation capabilities. This will help organizations discover shadow AI, understand how data and identities are linked to AI assets to deliver AI lineage, and identify related AI risks such as supply chain risks, security posture risks, and sensitive data risks.
Jay Chaudhry, Chairman and CEO of Zscaler, stated: “As AI adoption in enterprises accelerates rapidly, traditional access management methods, built around users and directories, cannot keep pace with millions of AI agents. With the acquisition of Symmetry Systems, we gain an ‘access graph’ that maps how all identities, applications, and data sources are connected across the entire enterprise. Leveraging this foundational visibility in our Zero Trust Exchange enables large-scale management of agent-to-agent and agent-to-application communication, providing the actionable controls users need to securely deploy AI.”
Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems, stated: “Symmetry Systems’ mission is to drive advanced security research that is truly supported by our customers. Zscaler is a great source of inspiration for us in both aspects. We believe that the security platform leading the AI era will govern how information flows between identities across zero-trust networks. As AI diminishes the intermediary roles of applications, endpoints, and traditional network perimeters, identity and data are becoming the new control plane in enterprise security. In this world, traditional security models designed around endpoints, applications, or perimeter networks are becoming less appropriate as abstraction layers. Symmetry Systems and Zscaler will work together to build information flow networks for the AI era.”
Regarding the partnership with global system integrators, Chaudhry added: “GSI partners play a critical role in driving zero-trust-driven digital transformation, delivering significant cost savings and superior user experiences to some of the world’s largest companies. Through Project AI-Guardian, we will help our partners extend their zero-trust framework to AI assets, including AI agents, and ensure that AI deployments do not come at the expense of security.”
SOURCE: PRTimes
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