Many teams depend on Zscaler to enforce access, inspection, and traffic control policies across distributed environments. But when those policies are changed, deleted, or misconfigured, the impact can be immediate: broken access, weakened security posture, and operational disruption.
ControlMonkey now supports Zscaler Backup and Restoration, helping teams protect critical Zscaler configurations with automated backup, change visibility, and fast recovery.
Introducing Zscaler Backup and Recovery
With ControlMonkey, teams can now protect key Zscaler configurations, including:
- Firewall filtering rules
Back up and recover traffic filtering policies that control allowed and blocked connections. - Browser access policies
Protect the policies that define secure browser access across users, apps, and environments. - SSL inspection policies
Recover inspection settings that are critical for visibility, compliance, and threat prevention. - Configuration change visibility
Track how Zscaler security policies change over time and identify risky or unintended modifications. - Fast recovery from mistakes or incidents
Restore critical Zscaler configurations after accidental deletions, misconfigurations, cyber incidents, or AI-driven changes.
Why Do You Need a Resilience Solution for Zscaler?
Zscaler policies sit directly in the path of user access, internet traffic, and security enforcement. That means even small configuration errors can create a major business impact.
- Deleted firewall rules can block critical services.
- changed browser access policy can disrupt employee access.
- Misconfigured SSL inspection policy can reduce security visibility or break application traffic.
For teams operating at scale, Zscaler configuration is not just a security setting. It is part of the cloud control plane.
ControlMonkey helps ensure these configurations are continuously backed up, versioned, and recoverable as part of a broader infrastructure resilience strategy.
There are several risk vectors to consider:
- an honest mistake by an employee
- a malicious actor attempting to disrupt your office operations
- an over-permissioned AI agent making changes it shouldn’t.
How Does It Work Back and Recovery works?
- ControlMonkey connects to your Zscaler environment using secure API access and continuously scans supported configuration types.
- It captures configuration states over time, tracks changes, and maintains recoverable snapshots of critical policies. If a configuration is accidentally deleted, changed incorrectly, or impacted by an incident, teams can review previous states and restore the required configuration.
- This helps Security and Network teams reduce recovery time, maintain policy continuity, and avoid manual rebuilds during high-pressure incidents.
Why Zscaler Native Backup Is Not Enough for Full Configuration Resilience
Zscaler policies often work alongside cloud infrastructure, identity providers, DNS, networking, CI/CD systems, and SaaS platforms. When an incident happens, teams need more than a point-in-time restore inside Zscaler. They need visibility into what changed, how it relates to the rest of the environment, and how to recover critical configurations quickly and safely.
ControlMonkey extends Zscaler backup and recovery into a broader configuration resilience strategy.
By protecting Zscaler policies alongside the rest of the cloud control plane, teams can reduce manual recovery work, improve change visibility, and maintain business continuity across connected systems.
| Native Zscaler Backup | ControlMonkey Zscaler Backup and Recovery |
|---|---|
| Focused on Zscaler configurations | Protects Zscaler as part of the broader cloud and SaaS control plane |
| Useful for platform-level restore | Designed for cross-platform configuration resilience |
| Helps recover Zscaler policy state | Helps teams understand, track, and recover critical configuration changes |
| Limited to the Zscaler environment | Connects Zscaler recovery to cloud, identity, network, and SaaS resilience |
| Restores one or few selected Zscaler configuration states | Provides ongoing snapshots, change visibility, and recovery across connected cloud and SaaS systems |
Stay Ahead with Zscaler Backup and Recovery
Security configurations are now part of modern infrastructure operations. They define who can access what, how traffic is inspected, and how organizations enforce policy across cloud and SaaS environments.
By extending backup and recovery to Zscaler, ControlMonkey helps teams:
- Improve visibility into security policy changes
- Reduce risk from accidental or unauthorized configuration updates
- Strengthen resilience across cloud and SaaS control planes
- Recover faster from configuration mistakes and cyber incidents
- Scale security governance with confidence
Zscaler protects access and traffic.
ControlMonkey protects the configuration behind it.
Ready to protect your Zscaler configuration?
Explore Zscaler Backup and Recovery with ControlMonkey today.
Reference Table: Key Zscaler Configurations for Backup and Recovery
| Configuration | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Firewall Filtering Rules | Configurations that define which traffic is allowed, blocked, or controlled across users, apps, services, and destinations. | Allow/block rulesSource and destination conditionsService-based rulesUser/group-based rulesApplication-based rules |
| Browser Access Policies | Configurations that control secure browser-based access to applications and resources. | Browser access rules Private app browser access Browser-based access conditions User access logic Application access controlsPrivate app browser accessBrowser-based access conditionsUser access logicApplication access controls |
| SSL Inspection Policies | Configurations that define how encrypted traffic is inspected, bypassed, or controlled. | SSL inspection rules SSL bypass settings Inspection exceptions Certificate-related settings App-specific inspection logic |
| URL Filtering Rules | Configurations that control access to websites, categories, and web destinations. | URL filtering rules Custom URL categories Blocked categories Allowed categories Web access policies |
| ZPA Access Policy Rules | Configurations that define who can access private applications through Zscaler Private Access. | Access policy rules User/group access conditions Device posture conditions Identity-based access logic Rule order |
| Application Segments | Configurations that define private applications protected by ZPA and how users reach them. | Application segments Browser access app segments Inspection app segments Segment groups Server groups |
| DLP Rules | Configurations that detect and control sensitive data movement across web and cloud applications. | DLP rules DLP dictionaries DLP engines Data matching patterns Notification templates |
| Cloud App Control Rules | Configurations that govern user actions across SaaS and cloud applications. | App control rules CASB DLP rules CASB malware rules Tenant restrictions Cloud app policies |
| Threat Protection Policies | Configurations that enforce protection against malware, malicious URLs, file-based threats, and risky content. | Advanced threat settings ATP malware policies Sandbox rules Security exceptions Malicious URL policies |
| Traffic Forwarding Settings | Configurations that define how traffic is routed into and through Zscaler. | Forwarding rules GRE tunnels VPN credentials Static IP forwarding Forwarding control policies |
| Admin Roles & Users | Configurations that define who can manage Zscaler and what permissions they have. | Admin users Admin roles Permission scopes Role assignments Governance settings |
| Logging & SIEM Integrations | Configurations that support visibility, audit, and security monitoring. | NSS feeds NSS servers LSS log configurations Log forwarding settings SIEM integrations |
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