The Invisible Layer Protecting the World's Biggest Companies
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There's no going back, if you will. I mean, as an industry, Gentic is going to be as disruptive as any of the tech waves have been in the past, whether it was mobile, internet, et cetera. I mean, this is just the next frontier of how businesses will need to compete.
That was Zscaler CFO Kevin Rubin on the future of AI security. I'm Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser. I sat down with Kevin to talk about how Zscaler is protecting the world's largest organizations from an exploding wave of cyber threats and why the rise of agentic AI could be the biggest opportunity the company has ever seen. Enjoy. Welcome to Motley Fool Conversations. I'm Jason Moser, and today I'm excited to welcome the CFO of Zscaler, Mr. Kevin Rubin. Prior to Zscaler, Kevin was the CFO at BetterUp, and prior to that, he served as the CFO of Alterix, a company that Motley Fool members are likely familiar with. Today, we're diving into the business of cybersecurity and Zscaler's role in this crucial market.
Kevin, welcome to the show.
Thanks, Jason. Appreciate you guys having us on.
Well, really happy to have you here. And I guess the first thing I want to get into here, because when we talk about cybersecurity, most of us, whether we're investors or not, we know that cybersecurity is necessary, but we don't exactly understand what it ultimately, there's so many different ways to view it. So first things first, we said at the top Zscaler is a cybersecurity company, but what is it that Zscaler actually does?
Yeah, thanks for the question. It really comes down to two fundamental things in my mind. Number one is preventing bad actors from getting into your corporate network and being able to access sensitive information or breaching your environment. And number two is ensuring that sensitive data and corporate assets don't escape out of your corporate network. Those are the fundamental things that we seek to solve.
Yeah, well, I can tell you just from my day to day, we use Zscaler all the time here at The Motley Fool. And I appreciate that you're looking out for us. So we hear a lot about zero trust, right? That's a word that we hear a lot in the cybersecurity market. And Zscaler really pioneered zero trust model years ago before it became mainstream. But now it seems like everybody claims to offer zero trust. So I guess I'm wondering, like, can you talk a little bit about what separates genuine zero trust from, like, what other people call zero trust, right? Because I've heard it called zero trust washing before. Like, is there a unique property or quality to Z-scale or zero trust dynamic?
So zero trust is a set of principles that simply mean provide the least amount of access only for the necessary particular use for either an individual, a workload, or a device that sits within the corporate environment. The concept is You should not give access to anything and everything because somebody wants to access a single application. So the principles are clear. Give the least necessary access for what it is that somebody or something is trying to accomplish with that particular request. We architected Zscaler specifically with those principles in mind. So the way that we approach zero trust and cybersecurity is through our zero trust exchange. We don't believe in today's environment that companies need to build out large, complicated corporate networks, right?
That was something that happened you know, 30, 40 years ago when the internet didn't exist and stable ability to drive traffic didn't exist. But today, those are as common as driving on the interstate, right? If you go back probably 100 years, you had oil drillers who had to build private roads to be able to access their oil fields because general public roads didn't exist today you don't see organizations building um you know basic infrastructure to be able to access certain assets and the same analogy would hold true as you think about corporate access to applications and other corporate sets of data so our approach is simple you allow your users and other resources to access what they need
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