Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships
Zscaler, Inc. is a Delaware corporation incorporated in September 2007 as SafeChannel, Inc., renamed Zscaler, Inc. in August 2008, with its principal executive office in San Jose, California 1.
Zscaler’s FY2025 subsidiary exhibit identifies Avalor Technologies LTD and Zscaler Israel LTD as Israeli-incorporated subsidiaries within its consolidated group 2.
Zscaler acquired Israeli-incorporated Avalor Technologies Ltd. in March 2024 for total purchase-price consideration of $256.7 million and planned to integrate its technology into the Zscaler cloud platform 3.
Zscaler’s announcement characterises Avalor’s product as a security-data fabric, with Unified Vulnerability Management identified as its first application 4.
The reviewed corporate records give different March 2024 transaction-completion dates for Avalor: 8 March in the FY2024 annual report and 13 March in the corporate announcement 3, 4.
Zscaler also acquired Israeli-incorporated Canonic Security Technologies Ltd. on 20 February 2023 for $16.5 million, and its FY2024 annual report stated that Canonic technology had been integrated into the cloud platform 3.
Canonic is not separately named in Zscaler’s FY2025 subsidiary exhibit, leaving its current separate legal status unresolved in the reviewed records 2, 3.
No public evidence identified.
Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology
The reviewed filings and corporate materials describe Zscaler as operating a cloud security platform and identify Avalor’s security-data-fabric technology, rather than biometric hardware, retail-technology products, or surveillance-device manufacturing 3, 4.
Zscaler’s FY2025 filing reports international research-and-development centres, including one in Israel, but does not specify that centre’s headcount, product allocation, data-processing function, customers, or public-sector work 1.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of Zscaler biometric systems, facial-recognition products, retail surveillance deployments, or Israeli surveillance contracts 1, 2, 5, 4.
Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation
Zscaler’s FY2024 annual report states that Avalor technology was intended for integration into Zscaler’s cloud platform 3.
Zscaler’s Israeli corporate-location page lists separate Avalor and Zscaler offices at One Tower, 21–23 Abba Hillel Silver Road, Ramat Gan, with Avalor on the 10th floor and Zscaler on the 31st floor 5.
The listed offices establish corporate-location evidence only and do not establish staff size, customer base, Israeli data-centre infrastructure, cloud-region capacity, or a specific data-processing role 5.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed filings, subsidiary exhibit, corporate-location record, and Avalor announcement of Zscaler-owned or leased Israeli data centres, Israeli cloud-region capacity, Israeli government-cloud participation, or Israeli data-residency commitments 1, 2, 5, 4.
Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships
Zscaler’s 2026 annual-report disclosure states that its activities are subject to U.S. export and import controls and OFAC-administered sanctions 6.
That disclosure discusses sanctions relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and does not disclose an Israel-specific export-control investigation, enforcement action, or restriction 6.
Zscaler Israel Ltd. appears in a 31 July 2023 company filing, but that filing does not identify the entity’s operational function, customers, contracts, data-processing role, or relationship with Israeli state or security bodies 7.
No public evidence identified in the checked UN/OHCHR, regulatory, civil-society, court-search, and investigative-source material of a Zscaler contract or service agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, the IDF, Israeli intelligence bodies, or a settlement authority.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed entity materials of Israeli state or military customers, and the confirmed Ramat Gan office records do not state customer or deployment geography 1, 2, 5, 4.
AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems
Zscaler’s March 2024 announcement described an expansion of its Zero Trust Exchange platform through AI-powered cloud capabilities and identified Avalor’s security-data fabric as a product component 4.
The available records describe Avalor’s first application as Unified Vulnerability Management and do not identify autonomous weapons, military targeting, biometric identification, or Israeli state AI deployments 4.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources of Zscaler AI or algorithmic systems being supplied for Israeli military, intelligence, settlement, or autonomous-systems use 1, 2, 5, 4.
Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint
Zscaler’s FY2025 annual report identifies Israel as one of its international R&D-centre locations 1.
The FY2025 subsidiary exhibit lists Avalor Technologies LTD and Zscaler Israel LTD as Israeli-incorporated entities 2.
The Ramat Gan contact page separately identifies Avalor and Zscaler offices at the same One Tower address, on different floors 5.
Zscaler’s FY2025 proxy identifies Jay Chaudhry as co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and director since September 2007 8.
The proxy identifies Raj Judge as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and a director, and describes Chaudhry and Judge as the two non-independent directors on a nine-member board at that time 8.
As of 1 November 2025, the proxy reported Ajay Mangal, as trustee, as beneficial owner of 29,084,052 shares, or 18.2%, and Jay Chaudhry as beneficial owner of 26,857,608 shares, or 16.8% 8.
The proxy states that beneficiaries associated with Mangal’s reported trust holding are members of Jay Chaudhry’s family 8.
No public evidence identified in the bounded review of personal or family-office investments by Chaudhry, Mangal, other executives, or board members in Israeli surveillance, military-technology, intelligence, AI, or cybersecurity businesses.
Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History
Zscaler was not listed in the 30 June 2023 OHCHR update of the database of businesses involved in certain activities relating to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory 9.
This OHCHR finding is document-scoped and does not establish the absence of later listings, indirect deployments, reseller relationships, or other settlement-related commercial activity 9.
No public evidence identified in the checked source set of a published NGO investigation, boycott or divestment campaign, sanctions campaign, regulator proceeding, or court action specifically alleging that Zscaler supplied technology to Israeli state bodies or operated in occupied territory.
OHCHR announced a subsequent update to its settlement-business database in September 2025, but the bounded review’s absence finding remains limited to the documents specifically checked 10.
No public evidence identified in the checked source set of Israeli-state, military, intelligence, or settlement contracts attributable to Zscaler.
Footnotes
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713683/000171368325000158/zs-20250731.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713683/000171368325000158/zsexhibit211fy2510-k.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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https://ir.zscaler.com/static-files/9416124f-e428-4765-8a0a-0940c48d2bae ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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https://www.zscaler.com/press/zscaler-expands-its-zero-trust-exchange-ai-powered-cloud ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9
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https://www.zscaler.com/de/company/contact ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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https://zscaler.gcs-web.com/static-files/9d4b4a2e-28e6-41da-aba5-0da2db46cc08 ↩ ↩2
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https://zscaler.gcs-web.com/static-files/528f5d14-2440-42e1-aae5-397c04fb1269 ↩
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713683/000171368325000198/zs-20251121.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2
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https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩