The Next Billion Users Will Not Be Human: Menlo Security Launches Industry’s First Browser Security Platform
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The hybrid workforce exposes flaws in traditional access methods. Legacy VPNs expand attack surfaces with excessive network access and agent-based ZTNA involves complex management overhead. Meanwhile, VDI is complex, costly, and delivers a poor user experience. Neither can deliver the secure, seamless access organizations require.
It is clear that legacy remote access can no longer meet the demands of our modern workforce. To truly achieve zero trust and simplify remote access, organizations need an entirely new approach to application access.
Menlo Security Is the Only Enterprise Browser Company to Be Named a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar Report for Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Menlo Secure Application Access is the industry’s only unified, clientless solution capable of securing every application in the enterprise: web and SaaS, remote servers and desktops, and legacy apps. Menlo SAA makes zero-trust access effortless for remote and hybrid workforces on managed or unmanaged devices using any browser. It creates a protective barrier, ensuring a compromised endpoint can never infect an enterprise application. This approach provides superior security by eliminating the risks of VPNs and the complexity of VDI without requiring any software on the user's device. It is easy to deploy, protects sensitive data, and maintains a high-performance user experience.
Menlo SAA moves beyond simple network access to enforce highly detailed least-privileged access to SaaS, private, and legacy thick-client applications. SAA separates the potentially compromised client from infecting the network and the application servers. This unique architecture enables IT to securely onboard any user, including BYOD or third-party users, through an agentless approach, while advanced controls protect sensitive data at all times and stop the spread of malware via file transfers.
Menlo delivers ZTNA with Browser DLP and File Security that goes beyond the basic secure connectivity that ZTNA solutions offer, and dramatically reduces the need for VDI. Menlo prevents known and unknown cyberthreats and prevents data exfiltration and misuse in real time, for both managed and unmanaged devices using such controls as dictionary DLP for web fields and files, copy/paste, file upload/download, and watermarking. Menlo protects applications and their data, enabling safe zero-trust use of AI, SaaS, email, collaboration tools, and cloud storage, with unparalleled control over sensitive information. These capabilities extend to all applications, including legacy applications, delivered to the browser.
Menlo Security provides the crucial data needed for effective security operations. By capturing a contextual forensic record of user activity within applications, you eliminate the blind spots common in traditional encrypted traffic. These deep insights are available instantly via Browsing Forensics, centralized dashboards, and logs. Fully integrated with your existing SIEM/SOC solutions, these insights enable rapid incident investigation and simplified compliance auditing.
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By adopting a cloud-delivered application access architecture, organizations gain proven security while dramatically reducing operational complexity and cost.
Menlo SAA is cloud-delivered and clientless. Access is granted instantly via any standard browser, eliminating all hardware dependencies, client software installation, and the need for time-consuming network restructuring.
Learn Why Menlo SAA Is a Leader in Zero Trust
Discover why organizations around the world rely on Menlo Security to protect the enterprise and enable secure access to applications, preventing attacks that legacy security tools cannot stop.
"Menlo was easy to roll out and integrates well with our security and technology stack in the cloud.”
“To employees, Menlo is completely transparent, allowing users to navigate a completely functional web resource.”
“…allows Synapxe to protect its assets from malicious threats without impacting the native user experience.“
“I wanted a layered approach that would protect users from web-based threats without slowing down their ability to get work done.”
“The platform has decreased our remediation needs, while reducing patch pressure.”
“Menlo Security helped us eliminate the possibility of a malware infection, rather than just detecting and removing an infection.”
“Before, we had to manually examine every single potential malware problem. Now, my job is much easier…with the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser.”
“Menlo takes care of all the unknown risks running rampant around the internet.”
“Zero-client,easy scaling, and cloud provisioned versus appliance.”
“Menlo Secure Cloud Browser provided the scalability to ensure that users world wide have the same transparent experience and unyielding protection.”
“[Menlo has] eliminated the need to manually apply and update policies across an increasingly distributed IT infrastructure.”
“Menlo provides protection from email-based malware embedded in links and attachments without impacting the user’s native email experience.”
Security and IT leaders face diverse challenges, from securing contractors and users on unmanaged devices to eliminating costly VDI. Menlo Secure Application Access is designed to adapt to your operational reality, providing tailored solutions across every key access scenario.
The high risk of malware and data loss from unmanaged devices forces costly VDI and complex agent solutions. Menlo Secure Application Access eliminates this trade-off by enforcing network separation, stopping the potentially compromised client from infecting the network and the application servers, and maintaining precise control over enterprise data. With Menlo SAA, you can eliminate the last hurdle to providing complete application access on unmanaged devices. Menlo SAA enables browser-based access to Windows and legacy applications on BYOD devices without requiring a VPN or local client. This ensures Menlo’s advanced data security controls, such as watermarking and copy/paste restrictions, are enforced consistently across every application session, even for legacy software.
VDI has a high total cost of ownership and high complexity, frustrating users with chronic latency and slow logins. Menlo Secure Application Access eliminates this burden by replacing desktop virtualization with a single, cloud-delivered, clientless solution. This shift delivers superior user performance and simplifies IT architecture, resulting in three key outcomes: a reduction of VDI TCO by up to 80%, an improved user experience with native-like performance, and the reallocation of specialized IT resources from maintenance overhead. Additionally, you can extend browser-based access to legacy thick-client apps. This provides a superior, more secure alternative to delivering a full, expensive, and complex virtual desktop for a single application.
Achieving true zero trust is often undermined by the lateral movement risk of VPNs and the complexity of legacy ZTNA. Menlo Secure Application Access eliminates this exposure by enforcing true least-privilege access at the application layer. This simplified approach reduces the overall attack surface and accelerates compliance against CISA Zero Trust models. Additionally, Menlo SAA applies zero trust policies consistently across your entire application portfolio, including web apps, SaaS apps, and legacy or Windows virtual applications. By shifting execution to the Menlo Cloud, you ensure no direct endpoint-to-app connection exists.
Learn How the Menlo Solution Aligns with the Technical Requirements of ZTMM 2.0
Traditional VPNs pose a major risk with broad network access while frustrating users with latency. Menlo Secure Application Access provides a clientless solution, enabling granular application-by-application access and delivering cloud-native speed. SAA helps organizations achieve a total replacement of legacy VPNs by providing a modern, unified method for accessing all corporate resources. This solution addresses the primary reason organizations retain VPNs: the need to secure historically difficult internal legacy and private applications. By virtualizing these apps into a browser-friendly format and securing them through the Menlo Cloud, you eliminate the need for full network access tunnels.
Answers to the burning questions in your mind.
No. Menlo Secure Application Access delivers secure, clientless access to modern web and SaaS applications, SSH and RDP, and legacy thick-client applications via any standard browser. The Menlo Security Client is an additional options to access to legacy client-server applications.
Yes. Menlo Secure Application Access is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructure. It supports all major industry standards, including SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect, allowing it to integrate out-of-the-box with popular Identity Providers (IdPs) like Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Okta, Google Workspace, and others. This ensures consistent authentication (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enforcement across all applications.
Menlo SAA goes beyond where ZTNA falls short by eliminating the complexity and inherent risks of legacy ZTNA. Menlo SAA is fundamentally different because:
It delivers zero trust access without requiring complex network changes, firewall rules, or any endpoint agent.
The Menlo Cloud creates a protective barrier, guaranteeing that no application code or data ever executes on the user's endpoint.
It allows enterprises to implement zero trust access with speed and ease, moving beyond the high complexity of legacy ZTNA solutions.
Menlo Secure Application Access (SAA) is a solution that provides policy-driven, zero trust access to internal, web-based, and legacy applications and data for both managed and unmanaged devices. It simplifies zero trust access, protects applications and data, and enables organizations to reduce their dependency on costly legacy infrastructure like VDI and VPNs. The solution ensures least-privileged access by limiting permissions by user, group, location, and application.
Menlo provides secure access by routing all user traffic through the Menlo Cloud. This shields the application from a potentially compromised endpoint. Menlo SAA offers clientless, zero-touch deployment to ANY type of application, making it simple to provision secure access for users, including contractors and BYOD users.
Yes, Menlo Secure Application Access is built on zero trust principles, focusing on granting access only to the specific applications a user requires, not the whole network. It enables fine-grained and conditional access policies defined by users, groups, source IPs, and geographies. The architecture ensures continuous enforcement and protection, delivering least-privileged access that is simple to deploy, even for remote and BYOD users.
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