Zscaler Partners with Global System Integrators to Launch Project AI-Guardian
Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the leader in cloud security, has announced the launch of Project AI-Guardian, an expanded strategic collaboration with key Global System Integrator (GSI) partners. The initiative is designed to help enterprises navigate the complexities of the AI-driven landscape by integrating Zscaler's "Zero Trust Everywhere" framework with the specialized consulting expertise of the world's leading GSIs.
Together, these partners will enable organizations to accelerate AI initiatives while helping to maintain robust protection, regulatory compliance, and total visibility over their data. Launch partners include Cognizant, EY, HCL, Infosys, TCS, and Wipro — six of the world's most prominent global system integrators.
As AI agents and autonomous workloads accelerate organizations into an "agentic world," the attack surface expands exponentially. Unlike bounded traditional apps, agentic systems continuously act and integrate, creating new failure modes. AI models now connect to data and applications across the full lifecycle — from development to cloud runtimes — and often trigger actions with delegated permissions, introducing critical blind spots for security teams.
"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."
— Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler
Transforming AI Risk into Business Opportunity
Through Project AI-Guardian, GSIs will leverage Zscaler's AI Protect portfolio to build specialized AI Discovery and Risk Mitigation functions. Partners can leverage this intelligence to provide a full inventory of AI apps, models, infrastructure, agents, and usage — helping enterprises reduce risk and accelerate AI initiatives safely.
AI Asset Management
Provides comprehensive visibility into AI usage, deployed AI infrastructure, and associated risks. Partners leverage this to help organizations discover shadow AI, understand how data and identity connect with AI assets providing AI lineage, and uncover supply chain risks, posture risks, and sensitive data risks.
Secure Access to AI
Provides granular controls to ensure responsible use of AI services. Zscaler's integrated solution leverages insights from endpoint, inline traffic, SaaS apps, cloud services, and code repositories to enable a full 360-degree view of an organization's AI footprint.
Secure AI Infrastructure and Apps
Provides continuous red teaming and real-time guardrails to safeguard the development of AI systems. Designed to help enterprises defend against highly advanced, automated threats including AI-orchestrated exploits and indirect prompt-injection paths.
Enhancing Resilience Against Frontier AI Threats
Zscaler has also announced partnerships with breakthrough frontier AI projects, including Anthropic's Project Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak. As highly sophisticated models demonstrate the ability to autonomously discover system vulnerabilities at machine speed, the need for a comprehensive Zero Trust Everywhere approach has never been more urgent. Traditional, perimeter-based defenses are no longer sufficient to stop AI-orchestrated exploits. Under the Project AI-Guardian framework, GSI partners will utilize a complimentary Security Review and Resiliency Engagement Program to provide organizations with immediate visibility, threat modeling, and robust defenses.
"AI adoption is accelerating rapidly, shifting security from managing tools, to governing risk at scale. Zscaler's AI Asset Management and Zero Trust Everywhere, integrated into Infosys CyberNext platform, provide enterprises with a unified approach to AI discovery, risk governance, and continuous control enforcement — turning AI security from a fragmented approach into a measurable, managed outcome — allowing enterprises to unlock AI value without increasing risks."
— Infosys Representative, Infosys
Launch Partners in Project AI-Guardian
The six founding GSI partners each bring specialized capabilities to the initiative, reinforcing that enterprise AI security requires both advanced technology and deep consulting expertise working in tandem.
Zscaler's Project AI-Guardian marks a major step in enterprise AI security, combining Zero Trust architecture with the consulting depth of six world-leading GSIs to address the growing risks of agentic AI systems.
The AI Protect portfolio — spanning AI Asset Management, Secure Access to AI, and Secure AI Infrastructure — delivers 360-degree visibility across endpoints, SaaS, cloud, and code repositories to eliminate shadow AI and reduce supply chain risk.
Partnerships with frontier AI projects including Anthropic's Project Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak underline Zscaler's commitment to staying ahead of increasingly sophisticated, AI-orchestrated cyber threats.
The initiative represents a shift from product-centric security to managed, measurable AI risk governance — enabling enterprises to unlock AI's business value without expanding their attack surface.
Project AI-Guardian arrives at a pivotal moment as enterprises accelerate adoption of AI agents, autonomous workloads, and agentic frameworks across every industry vertical. The combination of persistent AI connectivity, high-privilege access, and opaque decisioning has created an entirely new category of cybersecurity risk — one that traditional, perimeter-based defenses are structurally ill-equipped to address. By uniting Zscaler's Zero Trust Everywhere platform with the implementation muscle of six elite GSIs, this initiative offers a credible, scalable path for organizations to govern their AI footprint without sacrificing velocity.
For more details on Project AI-Guardian and Zscaler's broader AI security portfolio, visit zscaler.com.