Digital sovereignty has gone from being a political aspiration to an operational requirement. For organizations around the world, issues such as where security decisions are made, where transactions are processed, and where telemetry is stored now determine what technology can be deployed and how risk is managed. This trend will continue and those requirements are becoming more specific as policies and regulations proliferate across regions.
Under this operating framework, Zscaler has announced a significant expansion of its global data sovereignty capabilities, powered by the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud security platform. The company offers a leading solution that eliminates the trade-off between overall performance and regulatory compliance.
Differentiated and separate layers for management
For global companies, the conflict between protecting data and enabling cross-border collaboration represents a significant regulatory and business challenge that limits growth. Zscaler already operates more than 160 data centers and has a presence in most countries. Its architecture is based on completely isolated control, data and log planes: differentiated and separate layers for management, traffic inspection and log storage, ensuring that sensitive data never leaves the required jurisdiction and allowing companies to maintain full control over their data.
Operating a dashboard in a country is more complex than simply deploying data and log dashboards. Zscaler has addressed this challenge from the beginning and has built a dedicated control panel for the United States and Europe, along with a dedicated registration plane in six different countries. The company is currently actively extending this functionality to new regions and Canada will be the next country where it is available.
True digital sovereignty: local authority, global scale
Zscaler resolves the critical conflict between local data protection and global collaboration through a truly decentralized architecture that offers a clear advantage over alternatives that still rely on shared global control planes.
To further reinforce this local authority, Zscaler has introduced:
• SSL inspection and malware analysis within the region: decrypts and inspects encrypted traffic locally to stop hidden threats, ensuring sensitive data and files never leave the jurisdiction for analysis.
• Certified on-premises flexibility: Options for customers to use Private Service Edges (single-tenant appliances, hosted by the customer and managed by Zscaler) to meet specific hardware certification requirements.
• Region-specific support: Dedicated technical teams to help CIOs interpret national regulations and configure services appropriately.
Customer controlled security and compliance
To support companies’ security requirements while complying with audits, Zscaler’s commitment to digital sovereignty is backed by independent evaluations that verify that the platform encrypts and decrypts traffic without writing data to disk, guaranteeing maximum confidentiality in the processing of sensitive data.
Key compliance capabilities include:
• Full ownership of data: Complete control of encryption keys through integration with hardware security modules (HSM), ensuring that only authorized parties can decrypt traffic.
• Unified compliance acceleration: uses a “Collect Once, Certify All” framework that maps a single set of security controls to multiple overlapping regulatory requirements, significantly speeding validation for GDPR, NIS2, and DoD IL5.
• Flexible registration: Options for regional or on-premises log storage that support strict regional compliance requirements and customer policies.
Turn resilience into business continuity
Unlike vendors whose security services rely on third-party infrastructure, Zscaler owns and operates its own cloud, ensuring that an outage in one data center does not impact overall service availability.
Zscaler has announced a significant expansion of its global data sovereignty capabilities, powered by the Zero Trust Exchange.
This architecture allows large financial institutions to carry out simulations and real resilience exercises, validating that the platform cannot become a single point of failure. “The true measure of a security cloud is not just global performance, but its ability to adapt to local realities,” says Misha Kuperman, Chief Reliability Officer at Zscaler.
“Effective data sovereignty requires customers to have verified authority over the residency of their data, telemetry, and data and control plane information. By separating control, data, and log planes through a decentralized architecture, Zscaler enables customers to meet strict local sovereignty requirements without compromising the resilience and availability necessary for global business continuity,” concludes Kuperman.
