M&A and Divestitures

Bring ease and speed to your IT M&A playbook

Execute your M&A project efficiently and securely with Zscaler’s zero IT footprint approach. The unique cloud-delivered architecture of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ can help you achieve:

$1.5M
in avg. cost savings during transactions $5B+ in value
85%
reduced integration/ separation risk
80%
better acquired user experiences with fast, direct-to-internet connectivity

The Problem

Every merger or acquisition is a high-stakes undertaking

Weaving together workforces, application hosting environments, and shared access to resources across your new ecosystem—and doing so securely—is a massive architectural and engineering effort, and every delay can set you farther back from your synergy targets.

46% of mergers fail to realize revenue or cost synergies
46% of mergers fail to realize revenue or cost synergies

PwC

51% of M&A/D deal-makers cite cyber as the top transaction risk
51% of M&A/D dealmakers cite cyber as the top transaction risk

McKinsey

33% of acquired employees leave within 12 months due to poor experience
33% of acquired employees leave within 12 months due to poor experience

Deloitte

Solution Overview

Accelerate integrations to capture value faster with Zscaler

Maximizing value as you converge ecosystems can be a difficult balance. When low-value, high-effort domains—like networking and security—block your way forward, they put serious pressure on your timelines. With the Zero Trust Exchange, your way forward is clear.

Integrate only what you need

giving you unprecedented flexibility and options during integration.

Provide seamless, secure access

to discrete users, apps, and networked resources in days.

Access organization-wide resources

quickly and easily to cross-sell, innovate, and supply business services.

Reduce impact in the event of “buying a breach,”

keeping users productive while you assess and remediate with confidence.

Benefits

Join the 350+ organizations we’ve helped perform fast, secure IT integrations and divestitures with our unique zero trust approach

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Reduce technical complexity

Remove significant technical debt and complexities so you can move on to value capture activities more quickly.

Protect deal value
Protect deal value

Minimize threat exposure from acquired entities on Day 1 to safeguard against cyberthreats while you integrate in parallel.

Boost value capture
Boost value capture

Drive meaningful Day 2 savings with consumption-based SaaS models, reducing tech debt by up to 40%.

Integrate or separate faster
Integrate or separate faster

Complete a higher rate of integrations or separations with our zero trust cloud platform and highly repeatable approach.

Solution Details

Zero trust and the integration life cycle

Day 1: Integration

Connect resources across your organization with no need to address underlying network complexity—get users productive on Day 1.

Contain acquired vulnerabilities or potential compromises instantly when you overlay your risk posture on the acquired network.

Deliver seamless access to any cross-organization apps and resources with a simple desktop agent.

Day 2 and Beyond: Optimization

Expand and fine-tune Day 1 deployment as you transform to a zero trust architecture.

Connect and secure users and data anywhere while greatly reducing technical debt.

Achieve synergy savings targets with lower run-rate costs by eliminating hardware refresh cycles, support contracts, network circuits, and more.

How Zscaler streamlines M&A integrations

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M&A roadmap

Connect
Connect
  • Provide cross-entity access with a zero IT footprint architecture to instantly connect acquired to buyer (or vice versa) without connecting networks or IP overlap
Secure
Secure
  • Remove external exposures to minimize risk
  • Overlay access to private apps, supporting productivity while learning about app/user inventories and interactions
  • Provide data protections to ensure crown jewel IP never leaves your control
Elevate
Elevate
  • Integrate other risk profiling capabilities to provide dynamic risk-based policy
  • Adopt data protection (CASB, DLP, etc.) as needed for compliance
  • Define and enable more granular access and zero trust policies
innovate
Innovate
  • Add user experience telemetry to your help desk to raise First Time Fix Rate (FTFR)
  • Apply a zero trust architecture to workload-to-workload communications
  • Remove network and security stacks or technical debt offsets
  • Remove/Replace SD-WAN/network circuits with pure internet access and adopt new tech like 5G

Customer Success Stories

Real Estate52,000+ employees60 countries

“Zscaler … has a well-defined technology roadmap that provides opportunities for future exploration and expansion.”

Erik Hart, Chief Information Security Officer, Cushman & Wakefield

Financial Services and Insurance6,000+ employees500+ locations

“Zscaler allowed us to quickly integrate companies early in the process.”

Darin Hurd, Chief Information Security Officer, Guaranteed Rate

Transportation Services80,000 users40 countries

“Zscaler is … the tool that will help the business connect with new organizations that we’re buying.”

Mustapha Kebbeh, Global CISO, Brink’s

Telecommunications5,000+ employees32 countries

“[With Zscaler] we're not having to underline and change any of the backend systems … because it scales with us.”

Ash Surti, EVP, Technology & Security, Colt Technology Services

Real Estate52,000+ employees60 countries

“Zscaler … has a well-defined technology roadmap that provides opportunities for future exploration and expansion.”

Erik Hart, Chief Information Security Officer, Cushman & Wakefield

Financial Services and Insurance6,000+ employees500+ locations

“Zscaler allowed us to quickly integrate companies early in the process.”

Darin Hurd, Chief Information Security Officer, Guaranteed Rate

Transportation Services80,000 users40 countries

“Zscaler is … the tool that will help the business connect with new organizations that we’re buying.”

Mustapha Kebbeh, Global CISO, Brink’s

Telecommunications5,000+ employees32 countries

“[With Zscaler] we're not having to underline and change any of the backend systems … because it scales with us.”

Ash Surti, EVP, Technology & Security, Colt Technology Services

Real Estate52,000+ employees60 countries

“Zscaler … has a well-defined technology roadmap that provides opportunities for future exploration and expansion.”

Erik Hart, Chief Information Security Officer, Cushman & Wakefield

Financial Services and Insurance6,000+ employees500+ locations

“Zscaler allowed us to quickly integrate companies early in the process.”

Darin Hurd, Chief Information Security Officer, Guaranteed Rate

Transportation Services80,000 users40 countries

“Zscaler is … the tool that will help the business connect with new organizations that we’re buying.”

Mustapha Kebbeh, Global CISO, Brink’s

Telecommunications5,000+ employees32 countries

“[With Zscaler] we're not having to underline and change any of the backend systems … because it scales with us.”

Ash Surti, EVP, Technology & Security, Colt Technology Services

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Cushman-wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield accelerates M&A integrations

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Guaranteed Rate accelerates M&A integration from months to days

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Brink's advances zero trust and accelerates M&A

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Colt accelerates M&A and strengthens security at scale

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Cushman-wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield accelerates M&A integrations

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Guaranteed-Rate-logo

Guaranteed Rate accelerates M&A integration from months to days

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Brinks-logo

Brink's advances zero trust and accelerates M&A

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Colt accelerates M&A and strengthens security at scale

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Cushman-wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield accelerates M&A integrations

zscaler-customer-guranteed-rate
Guaranteed-Rate-logo

Guaranteed Rate accelerates M&A integration from months to days

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Brinks-logo

Brink's advances zero trust and accelerates M&A

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Colt accelerates M&A and strengthens security at scale

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