Zscaler has launched a new data centre in Canberra, offering improved cyber resilience to public and private sector enterprises. 

The cloud security vendor’s new data centre is part of its ongoing investment in its Australian operations, complementing its other data centre infrastructures in Sydney and Melbourne. Zscaler also launched a data centre in Auckland, New Zealand. 

The new data centre in Canberra will help support the company’s core products such as Zscaler Private Access and Zscaler Internet Access. It will also feature compute capabilities, SSL interception and the security services running at the edge. 

Customers of the company will also be provided improved capacity, performance and security thanks to the centre, as well as the speed, scale and stability of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud security platform. 

“Successful organisations of any size realise that any disruption, regardless of how small a security incident, will have an impact on the business as a whole,” Zscaler Regional Vice President Steve Singer said. 

“At present, we support more than a million users from Australia on our platform and these numbers are set to escalate. Bringing new data centre facilities to Canberra and Auckland puts our industry-leading Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform closer to our customers.” 

Regional Vice President Singer stated that Zscaler was currently focusing on “all levels of the community” on the need to reinforce Australia’s cybersecurity posture from threats like potential national state and supply chain attacks. 

“Our new data centre infrastructure will further support any new programs which the new Federal Government and Minister for Cyber Security may launch to further build awareness of the Essential Eight and continue to reinforce the need for ongoing cyber vigilance,” he said. 

“At the same time, we also look forward to further supporting New Zealand enterprises to keep information safe and secure and continue to observe CERT NZ guidelines.” 

During the announcement, senior network operations administrator of Zscaler customer Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation John Pratezina said that the organisation’s Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler Private Access was able to support his employees with a complete, secure, stack as a service from the cloud.

“Zscaler’s investment in onshore data centre infrastructure here in Australia provides certainty and the company’s focus on serving the needs of the Australian public sector ecosystem provides us with confidence that our security requirements will continue to be met in the years ahead,” he said. 

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