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Protect Users And Devices With A Secure Web Gateway

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) is the world’s leading Secure Web Gateway (SWG), delivering cloud–native, AI–powered cyberthreat protection and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to the Internet and SaaS apps. Zscaler’s proxy architecture enables full TLS/SSL inspection at scale, with connections brokered between users and applications based on identity, context, and business policies. ZIA is part of the Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE), and all Internet–bound traffic is be sent through the ZTE.

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) Sits inline between your company and the Internet, protecting your enterprise from cyberthreats, stopping intellectual property leaks, and ensuring compliance with corporate content and access policies.

ZIA monitors your network and user activity, secures roaming users and mobile devices, and manages all of this globally from a single management console. There is no hardware to buy, no appliances to manage and policy changes can be effected globally across your organization from a single console in minutes.

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) can protect your employees from malware (including Ransomware), viruses and other Internet threats, blocking attacks in real time. Zscaler security services scan and filter every byte of your network traffic, including SSL-encrypted sessions , as it passes to and from the Internet.

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) provides a Secure Service Edge (SSE), which when combined with an SD–WAN product such as Aruba EdgeConnect can provide a complete SASE architecture. It allows secure local breakout for your branch network. SD–WAN makes local breakouts easy. Zscaler makes them secure. Learn more: Network Transformation

Zscaler AI Security, when combined with ZIA, enables confident, secure AI adoption with a solution that offers AI asset management, secure access to AI, and security for enterprise AI apps and infrastructure, without inhibiting innovation.

One advantage of a cloud–delivered security gateway is that it can be delivered very quickly. See Rapid Internet Protection for a discussion on how protection can be enabled very rapidly. One major airline in the United States, responding to an urgent cyber–event deployed Zscaler to the majority of its users (over 60,000 users) over one weekend, and that included planning time!

The Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE) is the core component of the Zscaler Secure Web Gateway. All traffic, including encrypted traffic can be routed through the ZTE for inspection and control

Zscaler can also help protect IoT (Internet of Things) and OT (Operational Technology) environments, and help to enable Industry 4.0 in industrial environments. Zscaler can allow for secure data exchange in IoT environments such as Smart City and power generation, and help protect legacy OT environments by providing a Zero Trust Exchange between OT and IT systems.

Allow Secure Identified AccessTo Your Private Applications

ZTNA, or Zero Trust Network Access, provides secure, identity-based access to private applications and data for users and devices by verifying their identity and device health before granting temporary, granular access to only the necessary resources, rather than broad network access. It replaces traditional VPNs by creating a "software-defined perimeter" (SDP) for each user and application, significantly reducing the attack surface and improving security for modern, cloud-first organizations.

Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) is a next-generation, non-VPN based solution for secure remote access. The patented Zscaler Private Access solution works by abstracting the private, internal application from the network on which it resides, providing access from authorized users to specific applications via encrypted, per–session microtunnels that are created upon demand.

The end user is never directly connected to the application, nor is the user connected to the network on which the application resides. ZPA instead delivers functionality similar to a forward and a reverse proxy acting together. This ensure that networks and applications cannot be infected or exploited by open network tunnels.

Redefining Private Application Access

• Access to private applications, whether they are in your Data Center or a private segment of a Cloud Provider, no longer requires access to a public network, or use of a VPN. By hiding the public attack surface, the risk of cyber attack is dramatically decreased, and the possibility of DDOS attacks against private applications is removed.
• Inside–out connections ensure applications are invisible to unauthorized users and are never exposed to the Internet, preventing DDOS attacks
• Application segmentation, without network segmentation, connects users to specific applications and limits lateral movement
• The Internet becomes the new secure network via end–to–end encrypted TLS tunnels

Zscaler is a platform, which means Zero Trust can be combined with other security functions such as Data Loss Prevention, Cloud Application Access, Application Bandwidth Management, and Secure Web Gateway in a single platform. This platform can then be used for management and complicance reporting and security monitoring. For an example of a holistic platform approach to application, see our Zscaler for SAP page.

Zero Trust Network Access is one component of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture.

Learn more at: Zero Trust Network Access

Advanced SD-WAN With Integrated Path Conditioning, Packet-By-Packet Steering and Optimization

Traditional WAN architectures were designed for applications running in centralized data centers. Today, enterprise applications are distributed across cloud platforms, SaaS providers, and regional data centers. Backhauling traffic across MPLS networks introduces latency, increases cost, and reduces visibility. Advanced SD-WAN architectures solve this problem by intelligently routing traffic across multiple network transports while maintaining strong security controls and consistent application performance.

How Advanced SD-WAN Improves Application Performance

Advanced SD-WAN platforms deliver consistent application performance across any network transport by intelligently monitoring and steering traffic based on real-time network conditions. Capabilities such as dynamic path selection, packet loss mitigation, TCP optimization, and data deduplication allow organizations to maintain reliable performance even when using broadband and internet circuits. By continuously adapting to changing network conditions, advanced SD-WAN ensures that business-critical applications remain responsive whether they are delivered from data centers, cloud platforms, or distributed enterprise environments.

Introducing HPE Aruba EdgeConnect

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect is an advanced SD-WAN platform designed to provide secure, high-performance connectivity across branch offices, data centers, and cloud environments. By creating encrypted virtual network overlays across any available transport, EdgeConnect enables organizations to connect users directly to applications while maintaining consistent security policies and predictable application performance.

EdgeConnect continuously monitors network conditions including latency, packet loss, and jitter, and dynamically steers traffic across the optimal path in real time. Integrated WAN optimization technologies such as packet conditioning, TCP acceleration, and data deduplication further improve application responsiveness across long-distance or high-latency connections.

With centralized orchestration and zero-touch deployment capabilities, Aruba EdgeConnect simplifies network operations while allowing organizations to augment or replace traditional MPLS circuits with broadband and public internet connectivity. The result is a flexible, cost-effective WAN architecture that supports modern multi-cloud application environments.

Secure, Encrypted SD-WAN: With increased snooping on networks, insecure default hardware configurations, and an uncertain chain of custody for international networks, what can an enterprise do to ensure their private data stays private? Learn how Hararei can help to secure your WAN traffic: Secure Overlay Network.

Use A Single Vendor Solution For SD-WAN and Security Service Edge

Enterprise network architectures were designed for a world where applications lived in centralized data centers and users worked from corporate offices. Today, applications are distributed across SaaS platforms, public clouds, and regional data centers, while employees, partners, and contractors access these systems from virtually anywhere. At the same time, organizations must defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats while supporting bandwidth-intensive applications and a growing number of connected devices.

Traditional WAN and security architectures struggle to keep pace with these changes. Backhauling traffic through centralized data centers introduces latency, increases cost, and creates operational complexity, while fragmented security tools make it difficult to enforce consistent policies or maintain visibility across the environment. As a result, many organizations are reevaluating how networking and security should be delivered in a cloud-first world.

By modernizing both WAN and security architectures through SASE, organizations can enable direct, secure access to applications and services across on-premise infrastructure, public cloud environments, and SaaS platforms—regardless of where users or devices are located.

At Hararei, we understand that adopting a modern infrastructure architecture is a strategic journey. Our team helps organizations plan, implement, and operate these cloud-generation networking and security technologies with a structured and pragmatic approach.

What Is SASE?

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) combines an advanced SD-WAN edge deployed at branch locations with a comprehensive, cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE) platform that provides integrated networking and security capabilities.

SASE can be delivered through either a unified single-platform solution or a best-of-breed architecture that combines specialized networking and security technologies. Each approach offers distinct advantages. Single-platform solutions can simplify deployment and operations through tighter integration and centralized management, while best-of-breed architectures may provide greater flexibility and allow organizations to select leading capabilities in specific technology domains.

At Hararei, we have been designing, deploying, and operating SASE environments for more than eight years and understand that the right architecture depends on each organization’s operational model, security requirements, and long-term strategy. Our role is to help clients evaluate the available options and implement the approach that best aligns with their business and technical objectives.

The Multi-Cloud Reality

Most enterprises today don't live in a single cloud. Workloads are spread across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — driven by best-of-breed services, data sovereignty, regulatory requirements, mergers, or simply the pace of digital transformation. But while multi-cloud delivers flexibility, it introduces a critical challenge: How do you connect these environments securely, reliably, and cost-effectively?

Native cloud interconnects and point-to-point VPNs are expensive, operationally complex, and difficult to scale. They lack intelligent traffic management, leave security policy fragmented, and can't adapt dynamically to changing application demands. The result is higher costs, degraded performance, and a growing attack surface.

The Multi-Cloud Networking Challenge

Traditional approaches to connecting cloud environments — static VPNs, expensive MPLS extensions, and manual peering — cannot meet the demands of modern, distributed enterprises. Organizations need a smarter, unified fabric that spans all major cloud providers without sacrificing security or performance.

The Hararei Solution: SD-WAN Powered Multi-Cloud Fabric

Hararei brings over 8 years of SASE and SD-WAN deployment experience to solve multi-cloud networking. Leveraging HPE Aruba EdgeConnect — one of the industry's most advanced SASE/SD-WAN platforms — Hararei delivers a secure, automated, and intelligent networking fabric that spans AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premise environments simultaneously.

EdgeConnect's virtual overlay technology abstracts the underlying transport — whether that's internet broadband, cloud provider interconnects, 4G/5G mobile or private circuits — and creates a unified, policy-driven network across all cloud environments.

With real-time insight into network and application health, AI-driven network adaptation and automated fault isolation, users will experience the perfect WAN!. Advanced SD-WAN features can perform packet-by-packet routing to address underlying network brownouts, and TCP mitigation to address high-latency network issues

Key Capabilities

• Multi-Cloud Fabric: Unified connectivity across AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single management plane
• Intelligent Traffic Routing: Dynamic path selection based on application performance, cost, and availability
• End-to-End Security: Full traffic encryption across all inter-cloud links, with IDS/IPS at the branch and cloud edge
• Cost Optimisation: Replace expensive MPLS and cloud provider premium interconnects with broadband and SD-WAN overlays
• Rapid Deployment: Automated provisioning of new cloud sites and regions in minutes, not weeks
• Centralised Observability: Granular visibility into application performance, latency, and traffic flows across all clouds
• Support Disaster Recovery: Provide protection against supplier risk, location risk and soverign risk Disaster Recovery Scenarios
• Cloud Migration & Exit: Provide optimised WAN connectivity whether your workloads are moving to, exiting or between Clouds. Provides a cost-effective mechanism to move bulk data

Why Hararei?

Hararei is not just a reseller — we are a trusted IT advisor with deep, certified expertise in SD-WAN, SASE, and cloud architecture. Our team has delivered complex, large-scale network transformations for enterprises across financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing, with deployments spanning Wall Street, the City of London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Mumbai.

Every Hararei engagement includes ongoing Level 4 strategic support: architecture reviews, configuration recommendations, new product updates, and MIS reporting. We stay engaged to ensure you get maximum value from your investment — at no additional charge.

Getting Started: Free Network Connectivity Survey

Every multi-cloud networking journey is unique. Hararei offers a complimentary Multi-Cloud Networking Assessment that evaluates your current environment and delivers a tailored roadmap. The assessment covers:

• Current state review of cloud connectivity, topology, and costs
• Identification of performance bottlenecks, security gaps, and cost inefficiencies
• Target architecture design aligned to your business requirements and cloud strategy
• Financial analysis including ROI modelling and cost comparison vs. current approach
• Phased implementation roadmap with clear milestones and success metrics

The assessment is conducted by Hararei's senior architects and is provided as part of our Trusted IT Advisor commitment — at no cost to you.

Ready to Connect Your Clouds?

Contact the Hararei team today to schedule your complimentary Inter-Cloud Networking Assessment. Our experts will help you design a secure, high-performance, and cost-effective multi-cloud fabric tailored to your organisation.

Use Agile Infrastructure To Deliver Public and Private Applications

More and more companies are embracing the Public Cloud for IaaS/PaaS.

Cloud migrations can range from simple provisioning of a couple of AWS virtual servers, to entire applications with stringent data protection requirements, or to entire enterprises with complicated global privacy and regulatory requirements. Consider the following solutions for your Cloud Journey:

• Cloud Disaster Recovery can be used as part of an IT Disaster Recovery Plan and will usually be lower in cost than existing capabilities, and most likely provide a better time to recovery.
• Need a Secure Virtual Desktop as a Service? Learn More AWS WorkSpaces & Zscaler Internet Access
• Need to replace expensive VDI with a more cost–effective Cloud–based solution? Check out our VDI Replacement Strategy

Leveraging AWS best practices, Hararei partners with you to define a multi–phased roadmap for your Cloud Journey:

Hey IT, don't fight it! Embrace it! Adopt a Cloud First strategy to support your business’s digital transformation.

Remember, at the end of the day, every CEO (yes, EVERY CEO!!!) only cares about three things:

1. Top line growth (revenue growth)
2. Bottom line growth (margin growth)
3. Reduce/Manage Risk

IT started to embrace public SaaS years ago (SalesForce.com, WebEx, HR/Payroll services, etc.). And now, more and more companies are leveraging IaaS and PaaS in the public cloud too. Why? Simple - their IT leaders realized that the benefits associated with public cloud (time to market, speed, agility, no CapEx, low OpEx, feature rich, flexibility, scalability, elasticity, security, etc.) will help to achieve some if not all of things CEO's care about.

Using Cloud For Cost-Optimized Disaster Recovery

AWS Cloud for Disaster Recovery

Hararei provides a range of cloud-based Disaster Recovery solutions to suit every budget and recovery objective. From simple Backup/Restore solutions to full-scale Active/Active solutions that operate across multiple sites or Clouds, Hararei can help you implement a Disaster Recovery solution that meets your requirements.

Hararei is an AWS Consulting Partner and has the commercial IT experience to properly architect and implement a robust Disaster Recovery strategy

Many companies provide a Disaster Recovery environment to ensure continued operation during natural disasters, political strife, epidemics or other potential disruptions to business. The IT Disaster Recovery Plan is typically part of a wider Business Continuity Programme, and it can be a major expense for any company.

Expenses involved in providing a Disaster Recovery capability can often approach (or even exceed, due to data replication requirements) the cost of the primary IT Production costs, which leads some comapnies to try to save money by reducing the capabilities in the Disaster Recovery environment.

The good news is that Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be used as part of a strategic IT Disaster Recovery Plan and will usually be lower in cost than existing capabilities, and most likely provide a better time to recovery. We outline 4 different strategies here that can form the basis of an effecient and cost-effective Disaster Recovery plan:

• Backup/Restore - backup critical data and applications to the Cloud and Restore when there is an event
• Pilot Light - backup/restore, plus some critical infrastructure already alive in the Cloud
• Warm Standby - backup/restore, plus a pre-configured infrastructure, but with minimal active infrastructure
• Multisite - Active/Active infrastructure across traditional Data Centers and Cloud Regions

The actual strategies used depends on recovery time and recovery point (RTO/RPO) requirements and budgets, and will be different for every company.

SaaS-Based Path Management Across All Target Devices

Patch management is the process of remediating software vulnerabilities by sourcing, distributing and applying software updates and is the most important part of a vulnerability management program.

Patching helps to fix security vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications before they are exploited by threat actors. Operating System and Application patching is a vital layer of defense against malware and ransomware attacks.

Action1 is a highly rated, easy to use SaaS application that helps manage patching across a range of endpoints, and is suitable for enterprises large and small.

Cloud Backups Without Storage Lock-in

MSP360 provides software for backups to the Cloud with limitless point in time restore capabilities, ensuring that even if you are hit with a ransomware attack, you can roll back your user devices to a point prior to the attack

MSP360™ (formerly CloudBerry Lab) is an easy-to-use cloud backup management solution with military-grade encryption.

Customers can choose to provision their own storage using any of the major cloud storage providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Wasabi and others, or Hararei as an AWS Partner can provide AWS storage. Unlike other solutions, the customer is NOT locked into a storage provider.

Managed Detection & Response Solutions

Advanced threat monitoring, analytics, and expert human oversight to identify, investigate, and neutralize cyber threats around the clock.

The Managed Detection and Response (MDR) market is expanding rapidly as organizations seek smarter, faster ways to defend against an ever–evolving cyber threat landscape. With attacks growing in sophistication and an ever–increase shortage of skilled analysts, MDR has become the preferred approach for achieving continuous monitoring, proactive threat hunting, and rapid incident response.

Arctic Wolf’s MDR delivers round-the-clock monitoring, detection, and response across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads. Leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning, the service surfaces and prioritizes threats in real time while a dedicated Concierge Security® Team works with your organization to guide containment, remediation, and long-term posture improvement. The result is a true security partnership that boosts visibility, accelerates response, and strengthens resilience against today’s rapidly evolving attacks.