If you have Zscaler, you have great network-level AI visibility. Here is what it still does not cover — and why it matters.
We are not here to replace Zscaler. We are here to complete it.
Events get caught. Behaviour never changes.
Zscaler still catches what slips through. Now there is far less to catch.
'Our employees had no idea why they were being blocked'
Zscaler blocks at the network level. The employee just sees an error. No explanation, no learning, no behaviour change. Aona pops up at the moment of the action and explains exactly what happened and why.
'Home wifi, personal devices, and mobile — Zscaler has no reach there'
Your Zscaler deployment only covers managed devices on your network. Aona's browser extension works regardless of network or device. The coaching follows the employee.
'We had visibility, but no way to measure if behaviour was actually improving'
Zscaler gives you dashboards of incidents. Aona gives you a trend line: policy violations this month vs. last month, per team, per tool, per data type. You can show the board that things are getting better.
'New employees had no idea what our AI policy even was'
Zscaler does not onboard employees to your AI policy. Aona does: onboarding flows, policy acknowledgement, do/don't guides, built into the tool they use every day.
'We wanted to enable AI adoption, not just block it'
Zscaler's default instinct is enforcement. Aona's default is education. That difference matters for culture: you want employees to feel supported, not surveilled.
If your primary goal is network security — blocking AI apps at scale, securing your SSE perimeter, protecting against lateral movement — Zscaler is the right tool for that. They have 40,000 customers and a decade of enterprise trust for a reason. We do not do network proxying, and we are not trying to.
What we do: we sit at the employee layer. We work alongside Zscaler — not instead of it. Most of our customers who have Zscaler tell us they see Aona as the last mile their security stack was missing: the part that actually changes what employees do.
90-day free trial — no network changes required, no conflict with Zscaler.
Monitors all AI traffic at the network level. Blocks unsanctioned apps. Alerts your security team.
Intercepts at the browser. Coaches the employee in real time. Tracks behaviour change over time.
Fewer violations reach Zscaler because employees learn. Your security stack works harder with less noise.
Will Aona conflict with our Zscaler deployment?
+We already get shadow AI reports from Zscaler. Why do we need more?
+Can we run both in a 90-day trial before committing?
+What does our Zscaler team need to do to set Aona up?
+90-day free trial. Deploys alongside your existing Zscaler stack in under an hour. No network changes, no commitment.