Saviynt, the leader in identity security for AI, today announced an expanded partnership with Zscaler, the cybersecurity platform for the AI era, to help enterprises strengthen Zero Trust architectures by aligning identity-driven decisions with real-time enforcement. In addition, Zscaler Ventures has participated in Saviynt’s recent Series B funding round alongside KKR, Carrick Capital Partners, Ten Eleven and Sixth Street Growth, to support joint innovation as Identity Security becomes pivotal in securing enterprises in the AI era.

As organisations adopt Zero Trust principles, identity becomes the control plane for determining who or what should have access, while enforcement ensures that those decisions are continuously applied. Saviynt and Zscaler close this gap between governance and enforcement. The companies' combined capabilities help customers reduce risk, simplify operations, and secure least-privileged access across users, applications, and infrastructure in increasingly complex cloud, AI, and distributed work environments.

The initial integration focuses on eliminating standing privileges through just-in-time (JIT) access. This addresses enterprises still reliant on fragmented access models tickets, VPNs, group memberships, and persistent credentials that extend privileges beyond their intended use. Saviynt governs identity, validates access requests, and provisions time-bound entitlements, while Zscaler enforces those decisions inline at session initiation through the Zscaler Zero Trust ExchangeTM platform.

“Zero Trust strategy is ultimately driven by the quality of identity decisions and how rigorously they are enforced,” said Anirudh Sen, SVP of Products at Saviynt. “With Zscaler, we’re helping customers move to a model where access is continuously verified, context-aware, and designed to expire. This marks an important step in delivering a Zero Trust approach to Identity Security.”

Through the expanded partnership, organisations can:

• Eliminate standing privilege through just-in-time access that is approved, policy validated, and automatically revoked
• Govern third-party access with stronger onboarding, delegated controls, and built-in expiration
• Enforce identity-aware access policies inline at session start, ensuring access is current and justified
• Capture end-to-end visibility across the privileged access lifecycle for audit and compliance

“Zscaler and Saviynt help organisations accelerate Zero Trust adoption by bringing identity governance and inline enforcement together,” said Joby Menon, SVP of Product Management at Zscaler. “By combining them, we enable organisations to reduce standing privilege, improve visibility across the access lifecycle, and better protect users, applications, and data.”

The companies intend to expand integration across additional use cases and broader AI and infrastructure access scenarios. The partnership unites Saviynt’s identity management with Zscaler’s security platform, grounding access decisions in identity while enforcing continuous, context-aware protection across the enterprise.

Saviynt also joined Zscaler’s Project AI-Guardian as a Technology Alliance Partner to help deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end framework for securing AI. 

The companies will showcase the latest solution this week at Zenith Live in Las Vegas. To learn more about how Saviynt helps organisations secure identities across human and AI-driven environments, visitwww.saviynt.com.