Why AI Security Starts With Network Transformation

Zscaler's Chugh and Torsiello on How Zero Trust Models Secure AI Life Cycles Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • December 17, 2025

Organizations are accelerating artificial intelligence adoption, yet many overlook the foundational security and network controls required to support these initiatives safely. "You need to have the right security network controls in place to make sure that all the workloads and data within the corporate environment are secured before teams can migrate those workloads into the public cloud," said Raveesh Chugh, vice president of business development for global cloud alliances at Zscaler.

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Traditional firewalls and VPNs fail to support zero trust architectures needed for AI workloads running on hyperscalers. At the same time, shadow AI is emerging as employees use public LLM models without governance, increasing the risk of data leakage and intellectual property exposure.

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