Cisco Secure Access, Cisco's Security Service Edge (SSE) solution, includes secure Zero Trust Network Access to your company's private/internal resources. Resource connectors are virtual machines deployed in your AWS environment that forward remote user traffic to your applications without requiring open inbound ports in your firewall.

The Cloud Security Connector is the most straightforward way to connect to Zscaler (ZIA) solution with High Availability, protecting public and private traffic.

The Cloud Security Connector (CSC) is a virtual device that enables easy deployments of the Netskope SASE solution in any customer environment, enabling the protection of your Public and Private Traffic.

ZPA Connectors provide the secure authenticated interface between a customer's servers and the Zscaler Private Access cloud. App Connectors can be deployed in several forms. Zscaler distributes a standard virtual machine (VM) image for deployment in enterprise data centers, local private cloud environments such as VMware, or public cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2. Additionally, Zscaler provides packages that can be installed on supported Linux distributions. Connectors can be co-located with your enterprise applications, or they can be deployed in any location that has connectivity to the applications. Typically, they are deployed on network segments that can access secured applications and the ZPA cloud simultaneously, such as in a DMZ. Connectors only connect outbound; they do not need any inbound open ports to operate correctly.