Security News > 2022 > July > Mergers and acquisitions put zero trust to the ultimate test

More recently, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures have surfaced as key use case as companies increasingly look to add or pare down their businesses against the backdrop of a volatile global economic environment, according Chaudhry, Zscaler's chairman and CEO. Speaking at the their recent Zenith Live 2022 event, Chaudhry said Zscaler's cloud-based Zero Trust Exchange platform and underlying technologies have been used in about 300 acquisitions and divestitures over the past three years to reduce the complexity and time involved in merging two networks together or breaking one apart.

"I did not think of this use case when I started the company," he told The Register.

"Then, for a period of time, the acquired company will only give them limited access to applications in the acquiring company and vice-versa. To do so, traditionally they have to bring the two corporate networks together. When they integrate corporate networks, it creates problems."

With zero trust, "The integration is not about network or security. The integration means that the right users from each company can access the right applications," the CEO said.

Founded in 2012 and based in Dubai, the company started life as a ride-hailing company, similar to Uber and Lyft.

All these acquisitions and investments require various amounts of integration between Careem and the other companies, Patel told The Register.

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