The company will be extending its Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform to cover AI agents, including how they connect, how they access data, and how they run on devices.
According to Christina Powers, partner and cybersecurity consulting leader at management consulting firm West Monroe Partners, zero trust for agentic systems means treating every AI agent, tool, and action as untrusted until it is explicitly verified and authorized.
“As organizations give agents greater autonomy to access systems and make decisions, zero trust becomes essential because of the risk of unauthorized actions being executed at scale,” she says.
To this end, the new Zscaler AI Broker will secure MCP [Model Context Protocol] and A2A [Agent to Agent] communications. MCP and A2A are the top open standards for how AI agents connect to data and to each other, respectively.
