Zscaler expands public data centre footprint in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to secure Digital Transformation
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Zscaler expands public data centre footprint in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to secure Digital Transformation
centre investment allows organisations across the region to embrace cloud-first strategies with greater confidence, enabling seamless, secure access to applications and data – regardless of user location.
Zscaler, a leader in cloud security, has announced the strategic expansion of its public data centre( DC) infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, reinforcing its long-term commitment to the Middle East’ s dynamic digital economy.
This move enhances the availability of Zscaler Private Access( ZPA) in the region and supports growing customer demand for secure, scalable cloud solutions that align with local compliance and data sovereignty requirements.
As Digital Transformation accelerates across the Kingdom, Zscaler’ s expanded infrastructure ensures lower latency, improved performance and full alignment with Saudi Arabia’ s regulatory landscape. The data
“ We’ re deeply invested in the Middle East’ s digital future,” said Saeed Agha, Vice President of Emerging Markets at Zscaler.“ Our growing presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a reflection of our commitment to helping organisations adopt Zero Trust architecture at scale while assuring to meet the highest standards of data privacy, sovereignty and operational resilience.”
With over 150 data centres globally – including an expanding footprint in Saudi Arabia – Zscaler’ s Zero Trust Exchange platform enables organisations to securely connect users, workloads and devices across distributed environments, all while reducing risk and complexity.
Cloudflare unveils permission-based AI crawler controls to protect content and reshape Internet business models
Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, has announced a new approach that allows website owners to block AI crawlers from accessing their content without permission or compensation.
This change gives publishers and creators more control over how their content is used by AI systems, helping to address growing concerns about data scraping and loss of revenue when AI tools generate answers without crediting or sending visitors back to the original source.
Previously, the Internet operated on an informal exchange: search engines indexed content, driving users to websites and helping publishers earn revenue.
But AI crawlers disrupt this model by using scraped content to answer questions
Matthew Prince, Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare directly, which can undermine incentives for producing high-quality information.
Cloudflare’ s updated default settings enable website owners to choose whether to allow AI crawlers and to see exactly how their content might be used, for example for AI training or search.
“ If the Internet is going to survive the age of AI, we need to give publishers the control they deserve and build a new economic model that works for everyone – creators, consumers, tomorrow’ s AI founders, and the future of the web itself,” said Matthew Prince, Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.
Cloudflare’ s new tools aim to create a more sustainable and transparent online ecosystem by supporting both content creators and responsible AI development.
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