Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZS), the cybersecurity platform for the AI era, today announced the next phase of its Project AI-Guardian by expanding the initiative to include technology alliance partners. The expansion broadens the ecosystem collaboration first built with the world's leading global system integrators (GSIs), deepening interoperability across the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform and the Company's AI Protect portfolio with complementary partner technologies.

 

As enterprises adopt generative AI, agentic workflows, and AI-enabled SaaS, no single vendor secures the entire AI estate on its own. Security teams are left stitching together point products that don't share context, leaving blind spots across the rapidly expanding AI attack surface. What organizations need is not another silo, but a comprehensive AI security platform that interoperates with leading and existing technologies to share signals, identity context, and enforcement work.

The expansion of Project AI-Guardian is built around that principle. Through the Zero Trust Exchange, core Zscaler AI services will integrate directly with technology alliance partners. The integration includes the AI Access Graph, which continuously maps how identities, applications, agents, and data connect to AI services; AI attack surface and risk modeling, which discovers and quantifies AI-related exposure across the environment; and additional governance and protection capabilities. Partners both enrich and act on these signals, so insight gathered in one platform can drive enforcement in another.

Because every interaction is brokered through the Zero Trust Exchange, enforcement happens inline and in real time. Access is verified continuously, data is inspected as it moves, and zero trust policy is applied to AI usage the same way Zscaler applies zero trust to users, workloads, and devices today. For customers, interoperability means a consistent control plane for AI without the integration burden of connecting disparate tools. For partners, it means a platform-native path to extend their capabilities across the enterprise AI estate.



Technology alliance partners include: AWS, CoreWeave, Databricks, Deep Cogito, Equinix, Glean, Google Cloud, OpenAI, Saviynt, along with additional GSI Partners Coforge and NTT DATA. These partners join the founding GSI partners (Cognizant, EY, HCLTech, Infosys, TCS, and Wipro) to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end framework for securing AI.