{"id":200,"date":"2026-05-18T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/?p=200"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:40:14","slug":"securing-the-ai-era-accelerating-zero-trust-with-infosys-cyber-next-and-zscaler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/cybersecurity\/securing-the-ai-era-accelerating-zero-trust-with-infosys-cyber-next-and-zscaler.html","title":{"rendered":"Securing the AI Era: Accelerating Zero Trust with Infosys Cyber Next and Zscaler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud &amp; SaaS adoption, AI sprawl, and AI-driven threats are expanding the attack surface while boards demand productivity gains &#8211; not more tools. <strong>Zscaler\u2019s Zero Trust platform<\/strong> and <strong>Infosys\u2019s Cyber Next &#8211; powered by the Infosys Topaz AI fabric<\/strong>, meet this inflection point: a proven Zero Trust foundation paired with Agentic AI services to accelerate time-to-value, streamline operations and maximize ROI.<\/p>\n<p>Together, we help enterprises shift from perimeter-centric security to an adaptive Zero Trust operating model\u2014enabling secure-by-design application access, continuous data protection, protected workloads &amp; AI, caf\u00e9-like branches, and AI-powered detection and response. The result: greater agility, faster M&amp;A integration and better cost efficiency. This joint offering gives the C\u2011suite a path to modernize securely while unlocking measurable transformation.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>The Market Gap: Why Legacy Security is Failing<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Business runs on connected processes\u2014from lead to cash to procure to pay\u2014but modernization hits a wall: legacy platforms, fragmented data, and scarce skills.<\/p>\n<p>Secure access and data protection remain scattered, branches are box\u2011bound, data centers stay perimeter\u2011tied, data controls vary across SaaS and AI workflows, and operations drown in noise. Routine changes remain manual, creating alert overload, slow SLAs, and human error.\u00a0 The Security sprawl is real \u2013 leading to overlapping controls and inconsistent enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>For CIOs and CISOs, this sprawl hides risk &#8211; policy drift, blind spots in encrypted traffic, over\u2011privileged access, and inflates TCO through appliance refreshes, backhauling, fragmented licenses, and the integration tax of stitching tools together.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy, perimeter-based security was built for a hub-and-spoke world, not any-to-any connectivity. Policies tied to IPs and locations can\u2019t segment by identity and app, and lateral movement persists. Siloed tools fragment data protection and visibility across SaaS, cloud, and AI services.<\/p>\n<p>Manual operations can\u2019t match the volume and speed of internet threats. The result: a model that cannot sustain least\u2011privilege, consistent control, or great user experience in today\u2019s pervasive, AI\u2011first landscape.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Introducing the Joint Offering: Infosys Cyber Next powered by Zscaler<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Introducing Cyber Next powered by Zscaler\u2014the joint Infosys + Zscaler offering that accelerates secure transformation. It simplifies the move to Zero Trust by unifying secure access, data protection, workloads security, and AI governance with AI-enabled future-ready Zero Trust platform which produces rich telemetry that powers detection and response. This is backed by Infosys&#8217; deep domain expertise and cutting-edge AI-driven services that accelerates time\u2011to\u2011value.<\/p>\n<p>Built around three pillars:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Unified Visibility<\/span>: End\u2011to\u2011end insights across any-to-any connections across the enterprise.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Data &amp; AI Guardrails Everywhere<\/span>: Consistent, policy-driven protection for Users, devices, SaaS, cloud, branches, DCs, and AI.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Agentic Ops<\/span>: AI\u2011assisted automation that improves SLA, eliminates human error and reduces MTTR with human\u2011in\u2011the\u2011loop workflows<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h6><strong>Technical Integration: How It Works <\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>At the heart of this joint offering is the deep integration between the <strong>Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and Infosys Cyber Next powered by Topaz Fabric<\/strong>, delivering a cohesive Zero Trust operating model rather than a collection of point integrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange<\/strong> provides the cloud\u2011native enforcement layer, brokering all user\u2011to\u2011internet, user\u2011to\u2011app, workload\u2011to\u2011workload, and machine\u2011to\u2011machine connections based on identity, context, and policy\u2014without extending the network. This generates high\u2011fidelity telemetry across web traffic, SaaS usage, private applications, cloud workloads, branches, and endpoints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infosys Cyber Next<\/strong>, built on the <strong>Topaz AI Fabric<\/strong>, consumes this pervasive telemetry to construct a unified security context graph\u2014correlating threat intelligence, posture signals, policy violations, data loss events, risky application behavior, and identity context into a single source of truth for observability and response.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this foundation, Infosys introduces <strong>Agentic AI services<\/strong> that automate and operationalize Zero Trust at scale:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI agents<\/strong> integrate directly with native Zscaler APIs to orchestrate secure access (ZIA\/ZPA), application segmentation, posture validation, and exception handling.<\/li>\n<li>A built\u2011in <strong>responsible AI<\/strong> moderation layer, leveraging Zscaler\u2019s AI security and data protection controls, enforces guardrails against data leakage, prompt injection, hallucinations, and policy violations across AI workflows.<\/li>\n<li>Continuous learning loops transform billions of daily transactions into adaptive detection and response signals, enabling \u201cAI\u2011assisted defense\u201d without overwhelming security teams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Infosys Cyber Next Quantum Layer<\/strong> functions as the Orchestration and Intelligence layer above <strong>Zscaler\u2019s PQC ready Platform<\/strong>, delivering an end\u2011to\u2011end Enterprise Quantum Risk Management capability. It ingests cryptographic telemetry from Zero Trust Exchange and elevates it into unified PQC visibility and a comprehensive crypto inventory spanning applications, APIs, PKI, TLS endpoints, IPSec tunnels, and OT environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Infosys Cyber Next systematically models both <em>Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL)<\/em> confidentiality risks and <em>Trust Now, Forge Later (TNFL)<\/em> integrity risks, correlating assets, data sensitivity, trust chains, and infrastructure dependencies thus enabling quantified risk scoring, threat\u2011driven prioritization, and guided remediation\u2014transforming raw cryptographic signals into actionable quantum risk intelligence and migration readiness<\/p>\n<p>The result is pervasive visibility with consistent, policy\u2011driven enforcement\u2014across users, devices, applications, workloads, and AI assets\u2014while maintaining the scale, performance, and reliability required for global enterprises.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Value Realization: ROI &amp; Risk Reduction<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>By converging platform\u2011level Zero Trust enforcement with AI\u2011driven operational services, the joint Infosys\u2013Zscaler offering delivers measurable value across efficiency, risk, and cost dimensions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Operational Efficiency<\/span>: Agentic AI automates large portions of the Zscaler operational lifecycle\u2014policy creation, tunnel provisioning, application onboarding, posture validation, and exception handling. Customers have seen up to 90% reduction in manual configuration effort, enabling teams to move from days to minutes for site and application onboarding while reducing human error and SLA breaches.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Risk Reduction &amp; Compliance Simplification<\/span>: A unified security context graph enables continuous verification, attack\u2011path awareness, and real\u2011time enforcement of least\u2011privilege access. Consistent policies across users, SaaS, cloud workloads, and AI workflows simplify alignment with regulatory and data\u2011sovereignty requirements\u2014while reducing blind spots caused by fragmented tools and telemetry.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Platform &amp; Tool Consolidation<\/span>: By replacing network-centric and siloed security controls with cloud-delivered Zero Trust platform, enterprises can retire overlapping network security, remote access, data security, SecOps, cloud and AI security controls. This consolidation eliminates point products and\u00a0 reduces hardware refresh cycles, backhauling costs, and SOC operational overhead\u2014driving TCO savings of up to 40% in security operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together, these outcomes shift security from reactive cost control to a scalable, resilience\u2011driven capability that supports cloud, AI, and business transformation at speed.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>As enterprises adopt AI, modernize applications, and operate across highly distributed environments, security must evolve from a protective afterthought into a business accelerant. Infosys Cyber Next powered by Zscaler delivers this shift\u2014combining a proven Zero Trust platform with AI\u2011driven services that automate operations, reduce risk exposure, and accelerate time\u2011to\u2011value. By embedding Zero Trust into day\u2011to\u2011day operations and AI workflows, organizations can innovate faster, integrate acquisitions more securely, and scale globally without accumulating architectural or operational debt.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Authors and Contributors<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Authors:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Varun Soni<\/strong>, Industry Principal &#8211; Cybersecurity, Infosys<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:varun.soni@infosys.com\">varun.soni@infosys.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rakesh Kumar<\/strong>, Cybersecurity Solutions Architect, Zscaler<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Email: <a href=\"mailto:kumarr@zscaler.com\">kumarr@zscaler.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Contributor:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Aditya Yerramilli<\/strong>, Principal Consultant, Infosys<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Email: <a href=\"mailto:Aditya.Yerramilli@infosys.com\">Aditya.Yerramilli@infosys.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Further reading<\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Register for our upcoming Joint Launch Webinar: <a href=\"https:\/\/info.zscaler.com\/webinar-anthropic-mythos-end-cyber-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Protect Against Vulnerabilities Found by Claude Mythos<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Watch the Offering Overview Video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/videos.infosys.com\/watch\/SZGXn8GQKrSKc1SNWFNsYa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transforming Cybersecurity with Infosys Cyber Next powered by Zscaler<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud &amp; SaaS adoption, AI sprawl, and AI-driven threats are expanding the attack surface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[44,45,58,89,37,20,78,8,13,88,47,85,86,87],"coauthors":[90],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-agentic-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-security","tag-ctem","tag-cyber-resilience","tag-cybersecurity","tag-infosys-cyber-next","tag-infosys-cybersecurity","tag-sase","tag-secure-digital-transformation","tag-threat-detection","tag-zero-trust-security","tag-zscaler","tag-zscaler-zero-trust-exchange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}