Zscaler launches Project AI-Guardian - a strategic collaboration with key GSI partners

Zscaler has launched Project AI-Guardian, an expanded strategic collaboration with key Global System Integrator (GSI) partners including Cognizant, EY, HCLTech, Infosys, TCS, and Wipro designed to help enterprises navigate the complexities of the AI-driven landscape.

Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but the security models built for human users were never designed for autonomous agents. AI agents operate independently across systems using ephemeral identities and inherited permissions, and their numbers are growing exponentially, creating critical blind spots around what data they touch, why, and on whose behalf. The policies that worked for users will not scale to millions of autonomous agents communicating with applications, data, and one another. At the same time, as AI agents and autonomous workloads accelerate organizations into an “agentic world,” the attack surface expands exponentially, introducing indirect prompt-injection paths and permission chains that sprawl far beyond existing controls.

Zscaler’s announcement addresses this challenge the technology foundation and the implementation expertise enterprises need to deploy AI safely at scale.

Through Project AI-Guardian, GSI partners will leverage Zscaler’s AI Protect portfolio including AI Asset Management, Secure Access to AI, and Secure AI Infrastructure and Apps to build specialized AI Discovery and Risk Mitigation functions, help organizations discover shadow AI, understand how data and identity connect with AI assets providing AI lineage, and uncover associated AI risks such as supply chain risks, posture risks, and sensitive data risks.

“As enterprises rapidly adopt AI, the old playbook for governing access built around users and directories cannot scale to millions of AI agents,” said Jay Chaudhry, Chairman and CEO of Zscaler. “GSI partners have been instrumental in driving Zero Trust driven digital transformation, delivering massive cost savings and superior user experiences for the world's largest enterprises. With Project AI-Guardian, we are empowering our partners to extend the Zero Trust framework to AI assets including AI agents, ensuring that AI adoption does not come at the cost of security.”