Browsers, the new frontier for attacks
Traditionally treated as a mere gateway to the internet, web browsers are now at the center of enterprise activity, being widely used for SaaS applications, cloud services, and increasingly for generative AI tools. As employees upload, copy, and share sensitive data through browser sessions, this growing reliance has also opened new avenues for security risks.
“Most security stacks protect either the application, the endpoint, or the network. The browser is, unfortunately, the blind spot in between. There are traditional ways of dealing with the issue, but often at too great a risk, or as a result of too limiting an approach,” said Devroop Dhar, co-founder and MD at Primus Partners.
SquareX assists by allowing any browser on any device to function more like a secure enterprise browser using a lightweight, extension-based approach. “This extension becomes a kind of runtime enforcement agent, offering session-specific controls such as browser-based DLP, dynamic content isolation, real-time monitoring of user behaviour, and targeted security enforcement depending on risk levels and session context,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO and chief analyst at Greyhound Research.
