Isn't this just a VPN replacement?

Zero-trust access is part of it, and yes it can retire the VPN and the network hardware behind it. The bigger gain is visibility and control over everything that happens in the browser, including AI use.

Won't it slow my people down?

No. The friction came from old, network-based web filtering. Delivered at the edge, browser security runs without the lag, and staff keep using the browsers they already have.

Is a browser extension enough?

An extension is a useful layer, but it can’t see network or DNS traffic, which full visibility and true zero-trust access both need. Test the architecture before the brand.

How do we start without disrupting anyone?

With a monitor-only pilot across a small group. It shows what’s happening in your browsers with no policy change and no impact on users. You decide what to control once you can see the picture.

What about personal devices and contractors?

Browser security follows the session wherever it runs, so it covers unmanaged and personal machines and can lock contractor access to only what they need.

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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.

01
Phishing sent
An attacker sends a message built to slip past filters.
02
Past email security
A share of these reach the inbox anyway, because no email filter catches everything.
03
Into the browser
The user clicks. The link opens in the browser, well outside the reach of the email gateway.
04
Credential theft
A convincing landing page harvests the login, often defeating multi-factor authentication in the moment.
05
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.

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.

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.

01
Extension-only tools
A plug-in sees its own tab, not network or DNS traffic, which caps visibility and rules out true zero-trust access. Useful as one layer.
02
Edge-delivered platforms
Delivered at the edge, it sees DNS and network traffic, enforces zero-trust access and covers every browser. It 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: basic network-bound filtering at most, and shadow AI 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
Where AI data leaks stop
Comprehensive
Everything Broad does, plus enforced controls and zero-trust access, retiring VPN and legacy hardware. Start here if staff already paste client data into AI tools.
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 ran the leading tools through the same benchmarks, from shadow AI visibility to credential protection.

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.

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