Overview

By ingesting Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) telemetry, Exaforce provides a unified, AI-driven experience for complete visibility, automated triage, expert investigations, and guided response.

Where legacy SIEMs struggle with the volume and variety of forward-proxy and private-app access data, Exaforce is built for the scale, speed, and semantics of Zscaler logs. It normalizes proxy and access events in real time, enabling instant querying, deep historical visibility, and intelligent analytics without brittle pipelines.

How it works

Exaforce continuously ingests and analyzes Zscaler telemetry:

ZIA (forward proxy): Full HTTP/HTTPS transaction metadata (URL, method, status, response size, timing, and policy actions such as block/allow/watch), SSL/TLS handshake details, and inspection outcomes from Zscaler’s L7 edge (DPI, sandbox, threat categories).
Admin audit logs: Exaforce also ingests Zscaler admin audit logs to protect the Zscaler Admin Console itself.

These streams are normalized into Exaforce’s universal schema for network SaaS/Proxy events and private-access events. Our AI engine correlates identities, devices, departments, applications, and policies to build behavior baselines and instantly spot deviations that signal risk.

Core capabilities

Triage and reduce false positives

Agentic AI consolidates related ZIA events into single investigations, enriches with identity, department, device posture, and policy context, and prioritizes what matters, filtering out benign noise in real time.

Deep investigation

Pivot from any detection into raw ZIA events without leaving Exaforce. Trace a user’s URL requests, policy objects that fired, device posture status, connector path, and the net-effective access decision. Build a complete narrative from the first suspicious URL to internal resource access and data movement.

Threat hunting made effortless

Search months of Zscaler activity using natural language (e.g., “show blocked ChatGPT requests in the last 24h” or “who uploaded >1GB to file-sharing domains this week?”). Visual pivots let analysts move from a domain to users, to departments, to associated internal apps in seconds.

Benefits of securing Zscaler with Exaforce

Operate with deep Zscaler semantics

Exaforce understands ZIA constructs, departments, policies, connector/segment groups, application objects, and inspection outcomes, so it can separate benign administration from true threats.

Achieve complete visibility and coverage

Gain a unified view of proxy and private-access activity across all users, locations, and internal apps. Eliminate blind spots from split tunnels or shadow exceptions with detections for bypass patterns.

Reduce alert fatigue and accelerate response

High-fidelity detections and AI triage minimize distractions while guided workflows compress time-to-containment, from the first blocked URL to securing the user and app session.