Visibility you don't have today
See which sites, SaaS apps and AI tools your people use, and what data moves through them, in real time.
Browser securityPublished benchmark
Secure where your workday actually happens.
Most work, and most AI use, now happens in the browser, where few security stacks can see. We show you what's happening there first, then match the platform to it.
Free. No fit, no obligation.
The problem
The workplace moved into the browser.
Line-of-business apps used to live on the network. Now they run as software-as-a-service in a browser tab. Staff open a browser and stay there: email, files, finance, CRM, the lot. Industry estimates put 60 to 80% of the working day inside the browser.
Before any tool, decide what you're trying to solve. Most stacks watch the network and filter the inbox, then lose sight of the session once work moves into a SaaS tab. Today, few organisations can see what happens in the browser at all.
60 to 80%of the working day happens inside the browser, by industry estimates.
Browser security
Shadow AI is already inside your browser.
Generative AI is the fastest-moving risk here. Staff paste customer records, code, and contracts into whatever assistant is open, mostly on personal accounts. The average organisation has more than 20 AI tools IT never approved.
The people doing it are trying to work faster. The aim is to see what's leaving and to which tools, then steer it toward accounts you govern, without blocking the work.
How it happens
How a breach reaches your people.
The browser is where the chain ends, and where it is least watched.
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Phishing sent
An attacker sends a message built to slip past filters.
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Past email security
A share of these reach the inbox anyway, because no email filter catches everything.
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Into the browser
The user clicks. The link opens in the browser, well outside the reach of the email gateway.
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Credential theft
A convincing landing page harvests the login, often defeating multi-factor authentication in the moment.
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Lateral movement
With valid credentials, the attacker moves through your SaaS estate as a trusted user.
Email security and an alert user both get bypassed. The browser is the last place to catch it, and the place most stacks don’t watch.
What you get
What browser security gives you.
What changes once the browser is covered.
Safe access to the web and AI
Let staff use the tools they need while sensitive data stays out of the places it shouldn’t go.
Access without the VPN bill
Deliver zero-trust access to internal apps through the browser, which can retire VPN and network hardware and the cost behind them.
What to look for
What can the top platforms do?
The capabilities that separate real browser security from a plug-in.
Full session visibility
Records what happens inside the browser, across managed and unmanaged devices.
Web and DNS filtering at the edge
Blocks malicious and risky destinations before the page loads.
Data controls for AI and SaaS
Governs what can be typed, pasted, uploaded and downloaded in sensitive tools.
Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
Grants access to internal apps per user and per session, with no open network path.
Credential and phishing protection
Stops reused passwords and catches credential-harvesting pages in the moment.
Cross-browser coverage
Works across Chrome, Edge and Firefox, on company and personal devices alike.
Architecture
Browser security comes in two architectures.
The architecture decides the ceiling, long before the brand does.
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Extension-only tools
A browser plug-in sees the tab it sits in, but not network or DNS traffic. That caps visibility and rules out true zero-trust access. It's useful as one layer over something that sees the network.
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Edge-delivered platforms
Security delivered at the edge sees DNS and network traffic, enforces zero-trust access, and covers every browser. This is the architecture that carries the outcomes above.
Browser security
See what’s happening before you set a policy.
The friction stories are out of date. Early web filtering was slow and heavy-handed, so many teams still expect browser security to get in the way. Delivered at the edge, it doesn’t.
Start with a monitor-only pilot across a few users. It shows what's happening in your browsers. Then we map your systems to the data and revenue behind each, and decide what, if anything, to control.
Maturity
Where most teams sit today.
Browser security maturity, tier by tier.
Focused
No real view into the browser. Web filtering, if any, is basic and network-bound, and shadow AI is entirely unseen. Many organisations sit here.
Typical features
- Basic web filtering, if any
- Network-bound controls only
- No view of SaaS or AI use
- Shadow AI entirely unseen
Broad
Real visibility into sessions, SaaS and AI use. You can see the risk and have started to steer it.
Typical features
- Session visibility across SaaS
- AI tool use discovered and logged
- Data movement seen in real time
- First policies steering risky use
- Works on the browsers staff already use
Best fit if you’re being targeted
Comprehensive
Everything Broad does, plus enforced controls and zero-trust access, with VPN and legacy hardware on the way out. The most room to adapt as work moves. If staff already paste client data into AI tools, start here.
Everything in Broad, plus
- Data controls enforced inline, paste and upload included
- Zero-trust access to internal apps
- VPN and legacy hardware retired
- Phishing pages stopped in the session
- One policy for managed and unmanaged devices
Tekspace Research
We tested the browser security field.
Our Lab put the leading browser security tools through the same benchmarks, from shadow AI visibility to credential protection. See how they compare before you shortlist.
Published benchmark
Browser Security
Can you see what your people do inside the browser, AI tools included?
Protects where your people actually work: the browser, its extensions and the AI tools in it.
What we found
Visibility inside the session is what no other layer gives you. It tells an approved AI tool apart from sensitive data pasted into a personal account.
Vendors assessed
- Acium
- Akamai LayerX
- Apozy
- Conceal
- CrowdStrike Seraphic
- DefensX
- Harmony
- KeepAware
- ManageEngine
- Menlo Security
- Push Security
- Red Access
- SquareX
What we tested
- In-session, not at the network edge
- AI and shadow SaaS governed
- Agentless, BYOD included
Same tests on every product. The full scores are in the benchmark.
Read the benchmarkThe Tekspace Fit Method
How we’d help you choose.
Five steps from the problem you have to the product that fits, each leaving you with something you keep.
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Understand
For browser security
Agree what you need to see first: SaaS use, AI use, or the data leaving through both.
What you get
Problem brief. The agreed problem and what success looks like.
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Map
For browser security
Your browsers, SaaS estate, identity provider, the AI tools in use, and the VPN you might retire.
What you get
Environment map. Your tools, identity, users and constraints.
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Narrow
For browser security
Extension or edge-delivered first, then the platforms that suit your browsers, with reasons for the rest.
What you get
Shortlist with reasons. Why each option made it, and why the rest did not.
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Prove
For browser security
A visibility-only pilot shows what happens in your own sessions before any policy is set.
What you get
Proof-of-value results. How each option did against your problem.
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Enable
For browser security
Set the first policies, steer AI use to governed accounts, and train the team that will tune them.
What you get
Handover plan. Deployment, training and who owns what.
Common questions.
Even where we have a product we like, we’ll recommend something else if your context calls for it.
- No consulting fee
- If nothing fits, we say so
- Vendor-independent
- Operating since 2006