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OUT OF STEALTH: New SURF Zero-Trust Enterprise Browser
November 2022 by Marc Jacob
The newly available SURF zero-trust, identity-first enterprise browser reinforces organizational security by providing the critical visibility necessary to prevent attacks while simultaneously ensuring every user’s privacy. The platform streamlines collaboration and delivers easy, secure access to applications and data for managed and unmanaged (BYOD) devices.
Founders Moty Jacob and Ziv Yankowitz spent five years working together as CISO and CTO at London-based ICAP-NEX Group, which was acquired by CME Group (the world’s leading derivatives marketplace) for $5.4 billion. They built Chromium-based applications to strengthen security and ease management of financial transactions.
SURF Security was established to allow global enterprises to close security gaps – without affecting productivity — by collapsing the security stack into one single powerful control point: the enterprise browser.
Led by 11.2 Capital, Mango Capital, Okta Ventures, and security-focused Angel investors, the Seed round, combined with the already expanding customer base, allows the company the resources and support to grow significantly over the coming years.
The SURF browser observes every interaction between users and applications to discover policy breaches while enabling complete administrative visibility and control – without collecting individual personal data.
After quick and easy provisioning, enterprises can enforce security controls like DLP, content disarming and reconstruction, phishing prevention, session killswitch, on-the-fly file encryption, browser extension management, device posture checks, transactional MFA, watermarking, and more.
SURF replaces existing tools like VDI, VPN, RBI, DaaS, etc. Instead of adding overhead layers of virtualization, cost, and complexity and fracturing the user experience, the security and access controls are built directly within the browser. Users get full native experiences and streamlined performance, without any middle tiers, as if they were using the consumer version of any browser.
The platform delivers a complete end-to-end zero-trust experience for both on-prem and cloud applications, all built inside the browser. The comprehensive solution eliminates shadow IT, data leakage, social engineering, credential stuffing, unwanted extensions, browser-based attacks, and many other threats. Enterprises can streamline access to all software development tools and processes as well.
