Booth Newspapers Selects Zscaler to Manage and Secure Web 2.0
industry-first, multi-tenant SaaS security service, announced today that Booth
Newspapers of
policy and mitigate risks associated with Web 2.0 threats such as malicious
active content, botnets and phishing attacks as well as provide powerful
forensic analysis capabilities on Internet usage.
Booth Newspapers is using Zscaler’s SaaS security solution to secure and
manage Internet bound traffic for all of its employees across ten locations
and eight different brands including Ann Arbor News,
Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette,
Muskegon Chronicle and Saginaw News.
For Booth Newspapers, Zscaler replaces nine existing proxy servers used
for point products such as anti-virus scanning and URL filtering, as well as
the associated servers for logging and reporting. With Zscaler, each of ten
Internet gateways simply forward the Internet bound traffic to the Zscaler
service eliminating the need to maintain multiple products. This service
significantly reduces IT support, total cost of ownership as well as increases
security and control over Web 2.0 applications.
“We have ten Internet gateways at 8 different locations that require
significant local and remote support,” said
at Booth Newspapers. “Zscaler has freed us from the operational chores of
managing appliances, and reduced the time required for Internet access
administration. Zscaler’s flexible product options are tailored to exactly
meet our needs.”
Similar to Salesforce.com’s platform, Zscaler’s platform is purpose-built
to support a multi-tenant SaaS architecture. The policy and log management is
centralized, but the execution of policy happens at Zscaler processing
gateways that are deployed around the globe, the only practical way to deliver
fast response time.
“Zscaler’s architecture is ideal to enforce policy for multiple locations
and road warriors without introducing latency, the problem that plagues
traditional SaaS security services that are built upon traditional web
proxies,” said
Newspapers the rich functionality at an attractive TCO (Total Cost of
Ownership).”
About Booth Newspapers
Booth Newspapers, based in
in the state of
Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon
Chronicle, and Saginaw News, as well as Advance Newspapers in the
Rapids, Michigan
Newspapers, as well as the weekly Advance Newspapers.
About Zscaler
Through a multi-tenant, globally-deployed infrastructure, Zscaler enforces
business policy, mitigates risk, and provides twice the functionality at a
fraction of the cost of current solutions. It enables organizations to provide
the right access to the right users, from any place and on any device — while
empowering the end-user with a rich Internet experience. For more information,
visit us at http://www.zscaler.com.
Press Contacts:
Liz Youngs, Press Relations
843-971-7140 office, 843-412-6327 mobile
liz@zscaler.com
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