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Posture Control (ZPC)

About Alerts

Zscaler Posture Control (ZPC) continuously scans your cloud resources and triggers alerts when it detects any security policy violations and sends alert notifications to recipients or to third-party systems for investigation.

ZPC provides security policies for both runtime and build-time environments. These policies describe the scenarios for which alerts must be triggered. ZPC triages the alerts by severity (Critical, High, Low, or Medium) to help you prioritize the alerts and take action in a timely manner. You can configure custom alert rules to trigger alerts for specific policy violations on your cloud resources.

The alert details are displayed on the Alerts page. You can also get an overview of the alert lifecycle and trends on the ZPC dashboard.

Alerts provide the following benefits and enable you to:

  • View and manage alert notifications for any security policy violations detected in the cloud resources.
  • Create and manage custom alert rules for specific policy violations based on your organization's requirements.
  • Stay informed about critical security events.
  • Send alert data to third-party tools for further evaluation.

Alert Types

The alerts are classified as:

  • Cloud Alerts: Alerts triggered for security policy violations that occur within your cloud resources during runtime.
  • IaC Alerts: Alerts triggered for misconfigurations detected in your IaC infrastructure during build time.

About the Alerts Page

On the Alerts page (select Alerts in the left-side navigation), you can see the following tabs:

View the Alerts page

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