PETALING JAYA: US-based Zscaler Inc, a cloud cybersecurity security specialist, launched a data centre in Kuala Lumpur to deliver greater capacity, performance and resiliency to customers in Malaysia.
As part of Zscaler’s continued investment in Southeast Asia, the new facility is available to all customers in Malaysia and the broader region – complementing the existing Zscaler infrastructure in Kuala Lumpur, with added capabilities and upgraded resilience aligned to modern artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud requirements.
“We see public and private sector organisations in Malaysia continuing to modernise applications and infrastructure, ever embracing cloud and AI. With this accelerating shift, the threat landscape and attack surface advances in both volume and sophistication. That makes adopting a zero trust approach more critical than ever, especially as more organisations move beyond legacy private networks, security and governance in a cloud-enabled, connected,
mobile-first world,” Zscaler Greater Asia vice-president and managing director Sanjay Yadave said, adding that by expanding their footprint in Kuala Lumpur, they are strengthening their ability to partner with public and private sector customers across Malaysia to secure, simplify, and transform their operations with local performance, scale, and resilience across all major clouds.
As Malaysian organisations accelerate digitisation, hybrid work and Enterprise AI, cyber threats are growing in volume and sophistication, Zscaler’s new Kuala Lumpur data centre delivers lower latency and a better digital experience while enforcing granular, identity-based zero trust security to reduce risk and limit attack blast radius, and supports data residency preferences and high availability for public and private sectors.
The site now hosts the full Zscaler Zero Trust ExchangeTM platform, including Zscaler Internet AccessTM and Zscaler Private AccessTM, to provide fast, secure access to internet, SaaS, AI and private applications without placing users on the network.
Built to Zscaler’s latest global standards, it meets the highest resilience requirements with diverse network paths, redundant power and cooling, and a high-availability design to maximise uptime and business continuity.
As part of Zscaler’s commitment to sustainability, the new facility joins Zscaler’s global footprint of 160-plus data centres, all powered by renewable energy.
