CXO / IT Leadership , IT Governance , IT Policies

How Today's Top CIOs Are Completing the Cloud Journey

As a CIO, you've likely embraced the savings, flexibility, scalability and security of the cloud. But there’s a step in the cloud transformation journey that you may not have taken yet. You're still missing a seamless access method to the workloads, apps and data that moved to the cloud.

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The enterprise browser is the tool CIOs never knew they were lacking. It completely reimagines a browser and bakes in the needs of the enterprise.

The Missing Link: The Enterprise Browser

Consumer browsers lack the security features, deep visibility and hyper-granular policy controls enterprises need and do not ensure each employee has a tailored experience specific to their role and responsibilities. So business and security leaders surround these browsers with layers of tech - VDI, VPN, agents and proxies - to meet the needs of the enterprise, and the result is a frustrating trade-off between security and driving innovation within the business.

This trade-off can lead to shadow IT, which crops up when business teams decide to secretly sidestep security in order to forge ahead on their revenue-generating projects. It also can lead to a lag-laden VDI experience that end users would never choose for themselves.

The enterprise browser is designed from the ground up to meet the security, functionality and user experience needs critical to today's business environments - delivering advanced security measures, efficient data management and seamless integration with business processes, as well as elevating productivity and streamlining business operations. It is the modern keystone to enhancing and completing your cloud journey while ensuring a win-win-win between line of business, security and end users.

The Enterprise Browser: The Workspace of the Future

The enterprise browser empowers you to safeguard users and data precisely where your users engage with SaaS and internal web applications - protecting operations such as printing, copy, paste, downloads, uploads and extensions; more advanced security requirements such as data redaction, watermarking and adding multifactor authentication where not previously supported; as well as built-in safe browsing, web filtering, exploit prevention and zero trust network access.

The enterprise browser also provides a familiar native user experience, distinguishing itself from costly and underperforming VDI solutions. Contractors, remote workers and newly acquired companies just log in and get to work, without putting data at risk, waiting for corporate devices to arrive or bothering IT to set them up. And customizations allow the browser to be tailored to an employee's role and the company's brand and culture.

Realizing Full Cloud Potential With the Enterprise Browser

Here are some ways the enterprise browser helps modernize your infrastructure:

Seamless Integration

The enterprise browser is easy to introduce in your environment. It's based on Chromium, so it's fully compatible with all modern web and legacy applications. It can be deployed on both managed and unmanaged devices and all major OS platforms. And it offers pre-built integrations for identity providers, cloud storage, SIEM and more to fit into your existing technology stack.

Improved UX and Productivity

With the enterprise browser, users enjoy familiar onboarding and use because it offers the same UX as Chrome, or any other browser built on Chromium. It also offers productivity tools, such as a smart clipboard manager, that are optimized for the workplace.

Customization and Control

The control you get within the enterprise browser expands rather than limits your users' freedom. Dynamic safeguards open up new possibilities for accessing previously restricted applications, as well as using applications in different ways than before. Granting your users the freedom to be highly flexible and collaborative, while also being secure, boost their morale and productivity.

Tailored Security

The enterprise browser's enhanced security is tailored for each user and function. Users benefit from native self-protection and secure productivity tools, including the smart clipboard manager, GPT Assistant and Password Manager.

The security features also include increased visibility, secure browsing, data protection and a zero trust environment - all built-in and virtually invisible to the user.

Making the Transition: Enterprise Browser Implementations

Now that you've found this last, missing piece, how should you deploy it? Here are just a few of the game-changing use cases for the enterprise browser.

Contractor Access

In many organizations, the contractor base is massive, and it is a challenge to onboard them and provide them secure access to sensitive apps and data.

The enterprise browser provides contractors simple, native access to your business's network and applications, with full control and visibility for you. Contractors simply install a browser on any device, authenticate and get instant access to what they need. Granular controls keep data from leaking, and all work activity is logged for easy auditing.

Read about how a growing telehealth company implemented Island's Enterprise Browser and obtained a fast contractor onboarding experience, robust security and better visibility, all at a lower cost.

Remote Work and BYOD

The three main concerns organizations have when considering BYOD or remote work for employees are:

1. Unmanaged devices connected to critical applications housing sensitive data;
2. User skepticism around endpoint management agents added to their devices;
3. IT operational cost around all the security needed to secure virtual desktops.

The enterprise browser solves all three.

Read about how Island customer Sonar used the Island Enterprise Browser to solve its challenges.

Critical SaaS Applications

Securing and delivering SaaS and corporate web apps that have been migrated to the cloud is a massive headache for IT departments, who must constantly create new exceptions to give users what they require while keeping them secure.

Here again, the enterprise browser is the simple, elegant missing piece - a closed loop that prevents SaaS and critical web app information from leaking out to desktops, file systems, web conferences, external drives, camera phones and more.

The browser can automatically check device posture during user logins to ensure trusted devices are being used to access critical SaaS apps, encrypt cookies to protect app sessions from intrusion, scan for malware, or create policies governing data storage and enhance privacy. And it allows you to block actions such as screen printing.

Complete Your Cloud Journey With the Enterprise Browser

In the world of cloud infrastructure, the enterprise browser is the last step between you and a work experience that is easy, productive and secure. It's a strategic imperative to the success of your business.