Zscaler names Dr. Swamy Kocherlakota EVP of agentic AI security engineering

Zscaler Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS) appointed Dr. Swamy Kocherlakota as Executive Vice President of Agentic AI Security Engineering, the cloud security company announced. The appointment addresses the evolution of AI from chatbots to autonomous agents that function as both users and applications.

Kocherlakota brings 30 years of technology experience and previously led AI strategy at a global financial analytics company. He will lead Zscaler's strategy to expand its Zero Trust architecture to secure human and machine identities.

"Agentic AI is the future of how organizations will work, creating enormous opportunities for automation and scale, but also introducing significant new risks that legacy security tools cannot address," said Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Zscaler.

Under Kocherlakota's leadership, Zscaler plans to expand the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform, which the company states is trusted by 45% of Fortune 500 organizations, to secure agentic workflows. The company aims to innovate deeper in the AI stack to provide protection against new cyberthreats.

"Zscaler defined and pioneered Zero Trust security for users and applications and I believe it's the only company with the data and architecture required to secure the AI era," said Kocherlakota.

The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform is distributed across more than 160 data centers globally and serves thousands of customers by connecting users, devices, and applications securely across any location.

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