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Re: ZScaler - any experience?

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On 2025-12-19, Markus Robert Kessler <no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> A few years ago my employer switched remote access from homeoffice (me, 
> for instance) to intranet from vpnc to openconnect. On my colleagues' 
> windows machines it was called anyconnect, except this, all the same.

Anyconnect is a program from CISCO to use with their vpn packages.
Openconnect is an opensouce replacepent for Anyconnect. It connects to
Cisco;s vpn and a number of others. There is also a ocserv(?) opensource
vpn software to pair with openconnect. Mageia 9 has openconnect but not the
ocserv software. 
>
> At this time they also switched from RSA to one time password, based on 
> Micro$oft Authenticator app. I was really happy to read a hint here, that 
> there is oath-toolkit, and so even this challenge I was able to solve.
>
> Well, as always, after the change is before the change. And now, they want 
> to switch from CISCO Anyconnect / openconnect to a tool called "ZScaler".
>
> All I find about this is that it claims to be "so much more secure than 
> vpn and firewall" (why?), and I found that this is payware (hence, closed 
> source - take it or leave it).
>
> In my understanding, to make intranet access "so much more secure" likely 
> means, that there are processes running on my local machine all the time, 
> watching what tasks are running and what they're doing.
>
> Has anyone been in touch with "Zscaler connect" and can tell a little?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Markus
>
> P.S. Well, in worst case scenario I could sacrifice an unused machine and 
> install all that trash, then connect it only to my guest network with no 
> access to my main networks and hope that nothing happens during work...
>
>
>
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ZScaler - any experience? Markus Robert Kessler <no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> - 2025-12-19 17:25 +0000
  Re: ZScaler - any experience? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2025-12-22 19:04 +0000
    Re: ZScaler - any experience? Markus Robert Kessler <no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> - 2025-12-28 18:36 +0000

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