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Published inJun 2021
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Ravi Devarasetty
Ravi Devarasetty
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Ravi Devarasetty

Ravi Devarasetty is originally from India and came to the United States for his higher education. He started his IT career in embedded software development, moved into 24x7 network operations, later transitioned into secure web gateways, and now works in public cloud security. He likes constant learning, both through self-study and via mentoring relationships. He likes to tinker with technology and loves it when he is able to put the things he has learned toward creating a unique solution. He has experience working as a Zscaler solution deployment engineer as part of a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and as a Zscaler consultant. He holds multiple Zscaler certifications, and is also certified in CISSP, CCSK, AlienVault, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
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Delving into the ZPA architecture

ZPA only supports communications in the client-to-server direction. Any other models (such as server-to-client, client-to-client, and so on) are not supported by ZPA. Important components of the ZPA architecture are the ZPA Central Authority (CA); ZPA Public Service Edge (PSE); ZCC application; App Connectors; ZPA Tunnels (Z-Tunnels); Microtunnels (M-Tunnels); the logging and analytics cluster; and the Log Streaming Service (LSS).

Let's look at each of the components in detail, beginning with the ZPA CA.

ZPA CA

We already looked at the CA when we learned about the ZIA architecture in Chapter 2, Understanding the Zscaler Modular Architecture. Similarities between both the ZIA and ZPA are that both are multi-tenant, redundant, globally distributed policy engines. However, the main difference is that the central purpose of the ZPA CA is to enable connection requests, in addition to enforcing provisioning policies.

Just as with the ZIA...

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Published in: Jun 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800567986

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Ravi Devarasetty

Ravi Devarasetty is originally from India and came to the United States for his higher education. He started his IT career in embedded software development, moved into 24x7 network operations, later transitioned into secure web gateways, and now works in public cloud security. He likes constant learning, both through self-study and via mentoring relationships. He likes to tinker with technology and loves it when he is able to put the things he has learned toward creating a unique solution. He has experience working as a Zscaler solution deployment engineer as part of a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and as a Zscaler consultant. He holds multiple Zscaler certifications, and is also certified in CISSP, CCSK, AlienVault, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
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