LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — 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.
“The browser has become the main productivity tool for employees,
which has turned it into the largest attack surface as well,” said Pramod Gosavi,
11.2 Capital. “We invested because SURF directly addresses companies’
security needs without compromising on the productivity and privacy of
the end users.”
The platform leverages identity first and already has deep
integration with Okta’s market-leading identity platform and access
management (IDP) technology.
“The secure enterprise browser is one of the fastest growing markets,” said Austin Arensberg,
Senior Director, Okta Ventures. “We wanted to make sure we backed the
most comprehensive solution – SURF, which simultaneously delivers on
companies’ critical priorities of identity, security, and privacy.”
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.
“Ziv and I have taken a pragmatic approach to building the browser,
completely eliminating the trade-off between strengthening security at
the expense of agility and productivity. We wanted to be business
enablers,” says Moty. “After many years of trying to stay one step ahead
of threat actors with too many niche tools, we decided to integrate
many security tools into a single solution, reinforced with zero trust
and identity – while making everything easy for administrators and
users.”
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.
“SURF has completely rethought browser endpoint security by natively
designing the solution around Chromium and CDN/edge platforms, such as
Cloudflare and Fastly,” said Robin Vasan,
Founder and Partner at Mango Capital. “They are also providing tight
integration with key identity platforms like Okta and HashiCorp in user
and machine identity security respectively, strengthening their market
position.”
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.
The SURF browser is available for Windows, Android, Apple, and Linux.
Visit SURF at Oktane22 Nov. 8-10 at Moscone West in San Francisco.
SOURCE: SURF
