May 4, 2026

AI-Powered SSPM: CASB Neural Gets an Upgrade

You open your SSPM dashboard and see 340 third-party apps connected to your Microsoft 365 tenant. Where do you start? AI-powered SSPM insights turn raw OAuth data into prioritized, actionable risk decisions in under a minute.
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March 26, 2026

Blocking Personal Claude Accounts: Cloud Application Control for Enterprise Claude Users

Claude went from an interesting demo to daily work tool fast. Your employees are using it on personal accounts your company has no visibility into. Here’s how dope.security’s Cloud Application Control fixes that.
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November 4, 2026

11 questions security teams ask before replacing Zscaler (with our answers)

Every team replacing Zscaler sends the same security questionnaire. Agent update control, Sev-1 escalation, fail open vs fail closed, encryption, SIEM, retention. Here are the questions and dope.security's written answers.
November 4, 2026

The real cost of Zscaler isn't the license. It's everything around it.

The Zscaler quote is one line. The real cost is the PAC files, the weekly vendor calls, the engineer-weeks lost to tickets, and the add-on you bought to diagnose the latency the proxy created. Here's how to count it.
November 4, 2026

Zscaler doesn't work at your China sites. Here's why, and what does.

If you have offices or travelers in China, your cloud-proxy SWG has probably never worked there. The reason is architectural. Here's what's actually happening and why an on-device gateway doesn't have the problem.
November 4, 2026

The 3-week secure web gateway pilot checklist for lean IT teams

A three-person IT team can run a complete secure web gateway proof of concept in three weeks. Here's the checklist: who to pilot on, what to test, which questions to send the vendor, and how to run the wrap-up.
November 4, 2026

Why your Mac fleet has SSL inspection turned off (and how to turn it back on)

Mac-heavy teams on Zscaler often run with SSL inspection disabled because it breaks developer tooling. That's an open control gap. Here's why it happens and what a Mac-native secure web gateway does differently.
November 4, 2026

Zscaler renewal in 90 days? Here's how teams switch without a gap

Your Zscaler ZIA renewal is 45 to 90 days out and you're not sure you want to re-sign. Here's the week-by-week plan teams use to evaluate, pilot, and cut over to a Zscaler alternative before the auto-renew hits.
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