Cloudflare has released the beta of its new “browser isolation” service, which runs a web browser in the cloud, reports TechRadar.
As more and more computing is done inside a browser as opposed to on a system itself, many enterprise organizations have begun to deploy browser isolation services where the browser doesn’t actually run on a user’s computer. Instead the browser runs on a virtual machine inside a cloud provider’s data center. This means that any threats from the browser will stay in that virtual machine and won’t be able to infect a corporate laptop or move laterally across an organization’s network…
Cloudflare Browser Isolation does thing a bit differently by sending the final output of a browser’s web page rendering. As a result, the only thing every sent to a user’s device is a package of draw commands to render the webpage and this also means that the company’s new service will be compatible with any HTML5 compliant browser including Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox.
As Cloudflare has data centers in 200 cities around the world, its browser isolation service should be able to deliver a responsive web browsing experience regardless of where a user is located.
It’s part of a larger push, since this week Cloudflare also released their network-as-a-service solution “Cloudflare One,” which according to Cloudflare “protects and accelerates the performance of devices, applications, and entire networks to keep workforces secure.”
“After decades of building legacy corporate networks, organizations are left with clunky systems designed to protect their now empty offices. The only way to secure today’s work-from-anywhere economy is to secure each individual employee, protecting their individual networks, devices, and access to business-critical applications,” said Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare… Companies have traditionally used a castle-and-moat approach to security, creating a barrier between the enterprise network and external threats. Now that applications have moved to the cloud, and more employees have moved outside of the office, that model is broken.
Employees are frustrated with the speed and experience of VPNs, and organizations want an alternative to the expensive patchwork of legacy solutions required to secure and connect corporate offices to each other and the internet. Today’s new landscape requires a zero trust approach, where organizations do not automatically trust any requests to corporate data or resources, and instead, verify every attempt to connect to corporate systems before allowing them access… This unified solution enables fast and safe connections to workplace applications, allows teams to use an app without exposing it to the public internet, makes personal devices safe for business use, and works in any environment with any cloud provider.
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