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Cyber

DIU Selects ZScaler For Secure Cloud Management Prototype Competition

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, May 29th, 2020

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DIU Selects ZScaler For Secure Cloud Management Prototype Competition

The Pentagon’s emerging technologies office has selected information security firm ZScaler [ZS] to deliver a prototype secure cloud management solution designed to detect and respond to cyber threats, the company said Friday. ZScaler now joins Google Cloud [GOOG] in the Defense Innovation Unit prototype program, which looks to find a ‘zero trust’ capability to provide secure network access across the major cloud computing offerings, including Microsoft’s [MSFT] Azure and Amazon Web Services [AMZN]. DIU’s multi-cloud security solution program may result…

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