Zscaler has announced plans to acquire Symmetry Systems in a move aimed at strengthening security for AI-driven enterprise environments. The acquisition merges together Zero Trust Exchange of Zscaler with identity mapping and access graph technology of Symmetry Systems to allow monitoring and managing interactions between AI agents and applications and systems.
With enterprises adopting more and more autonomous AI agents within their business operations, identity and access management techniques have started failing to keep up. Unlike human employees, AI agents typically work on temporary identities and inherited permissions during interactions that take place across various systems and applications. It becomes rather difficult to determine who or what entity accesses the company’s confidential data.
Symmetry Systems solves the problem by creating an access graph based on enterprise-wide access logs that are provided by cloud platforms, SaaS, data storage solutions, and artificial intelligence systems. Using artificial intelligence, Symmetry Systems builds relations between identities and other assets, allowing organizations to understand how information flows across the enterprise.
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Once integrated with Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange, the combined platform will allow businesses to create and enforce policies governing AI agent behavior in real time. Security teams will be able to monitor which systems an AI agent accesses, understand what triggered its actions, and automatically respond to suspicious or risky activity.
“As enterprises rapidly adopt AI, the old playbook for governing access built around users and directories cannot scale to millions of AI agents,” said Jay Chaudhry, Chairman and CEO of Zscaler. “With Symmetry Systems, we are adding the access graph that maps how every identity, application, and data source connects across the enterprise. This foundational visibility is what Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange will use to govern agent-to-application and agent-to-agent communication at scale, giving customers the actionable control they need to safely embrace AI.”
The acquisition is expected to enhance Zscaler’s broader AI security capabilities, including least-privilege policy enforcement, real-time anomaly detection, data lineage tracking, and rapid risk assessment if an AI agent or identity becomes compromised.
“Symmetry Systems’ mission is deep security research that earns real customer love. Zscaler is an inspiration on both counts,” said Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems. “Together, Symmetry Systems and Zscaler are building the information flow network for the age of AI.”