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Zscaler is truly amazing. It can't do HTTP/2. Our product is HTTP/2-only. So we can't use our own product at work.



I know a few people who have Zscaler deployed at work. It will routinely kick them of the internet, like multiple times a day. It has gotten to the point where they can sort of tell in advance that it's about to happen.

The theory so far it that it's related to their activities, working in DevOps they will sometimes generate "suspicious" traffic patterns which will then trigger someone policy in Zscaler, but they're not actually sure.


ZScaler itself uses port 443 UDP, but blocks QUIC. The last time I checked it didn't support IPv6 so they told customers to disable IPv6. Security software is legacy software out of the box and cuts the performance of computers in half.


What Zscaler can and will do though is break your network randomly and in strange ways. They don't even seem to charge for that feature!


Their visibility and process in general for handling abuse of their services is also abysmal.




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