When applications, data, and users were on the enterprise network, the best way to provide secure access was to secure the network. But a lot has changed.
Digital transformation, browser-based applications, and the rise of a hybrid workforce have dramatically altered the landscape for secure application access.
SaaS and internal apps have moved off the network, and, since 2020, users have too. At the same time, the access needs of contractors and partners has grown. Legacy methods like VPNs, which provided access to your network, have become unnecessary at best and a liability at worst. Serious vulnerabilities in even market-leading VPNs have exploded, and hackers are increasingly savvy about how to exploit them.
VDI deployments, on the other hand, are cumbersome and expensive to maintain even as they provide a suboptimal user experience.
Browser-based access provides a clear way forward but can pose its own questions. You may be able to impose a special browser onto employees, but that falls apart with BYOD. And, there’s no way to demand that contractors or partners use a particular browser.
Instead, you need a way to ensure that any user with any browser can access the applications and data they need—and you need to control how users interact with these resources.
62% of cybersecurity professionals cite data loss and leaks as their top BYOD-related concerns.
72% of applications provide access to unauthorized features.
66% of applications can be compromised by injecting code in HTTP headers or payloads.
Menlo Secure Application Access allows you to provide the access users need without any security compromises, using any browser they have. You can differentiate access by user, group, geo, or source IP with just a few clicks, and there’s no need to touch the endpoint at all. Changing policies or even deprovisioning access is just as easy.
Secure Application Access helps you evolve your security stance from zero trust network access to zero trust access. Via a portal or a browser extension, users can access just the applications they need, rather than an entire segment of your network. There’s no need to change DNS records or work with certificates. If an application cannot be accessed by the browser, such as those requiring an RDP or SSH connection, the Menlo Security Client has you covered for those apps, too.
Application access is only part of the challenge. You also have to consider what the user does with the data coming from the app. Menlo Secure Application Access provides detailed last-mile DLP features that govern how users interact with applications and data during sessions.
You can quickly set controls by user, group, location, and security stance—and you can make changes just as easily—all from the same console.
The power and ubiquity of the browser have made it an ideal gateway to websites, apps, data, services, and more. Unfortunately, this ubiquity has also made the browser a popular target of attack. It is surprisingly easy for browser-based malware to find its way into users’ devices or even servers.
You may have sought to solve the browser issue with endpoint security clients, but users balk at installing them on personal (BYOD) devices. The same is true of business partners and contractors. With no way to ascertain the security posture of an unknown browser that’s being used to get to your most sensitive internal apps and data, how do you allow it direct access? The Menlo answer is simple. Don't.
With the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser, you can protect users, endpoints, and applications from internet threats—and from each other.
Secure Cloud Browser is the foundation of all Menlo offerings. It creates a hardened digital twin of the user’s local browser, located in the cloud and uniquely spun up at each session. Before any access requests get to your apps, the user’s traffic crosses the Secure Cloud Browser. The request is inspected and secured, and only the “clean” traffic is sent on to your app. So even if a user’s endpoint is compromised, no malware or other exploit will ever be introduced to your apps.
The same is true for traffic going from the application server to the endpoint. Traffic is fully inspected by the Secure Cloud Browser, so any malware that might have found its way onto the server is stripped out and only clean content is delivered. This is also where the access controls that you have implemented are enforced.
Visibility into browser traffic has always been challenging with traditional security tools. Because browser traffic is typically encrypted, inspection is limited to the metadata of the communication, such as the source and destination IP addresses and port numbers in use. The actual payload remains hidden, and security teams get only a handful of clues about an event, rather than evidence of what actually happened during a browsing session.
The guessing game ends with Menlo Browsing Forensics. As traffic transits the Secure Cloud Browser, it can be recorded by Browsing Forensics in near-real time.
All Menlo products are part of the Secure Enterprise Browser solution. An evolution from remote browser isolation technology that some vendors are just now adding to their security offerings, a Secure Enterprise Browser creates a hardened digital twin of users’ local browser on the fly.
Because the browser has been the sole focus of Menlo Security, we are able to deliver a solution that offers all the security you want with the performance and familiarity that users require.