ERICOM SHIELD

A fundamental shift in how we combat malware attacks on vulnerable browsers and webmail is required. One that stops the cat and mouse approach that leaves legitimate users always at risk, and instead stops all malware from entering via these vectors. You read that right – 100% of the threats from the web, stopped. We’ll introduce you to how this can be done – a technique called Browser Isolation – but let’s first better understand whysecuring web browsers can be such a challenge.

－Scams come and go: Human nature remains

－Phishing sites out-nimble browser safe modes

－We have met the enemy, and he is us

－Zero Trust Browsing: What you can't authenticate, isolate

－Protect users – and your business – from their own errors

Small and medium-sized financial service organizations – local banks and credit unions, brokerages, financial advisory firms, and accounting and insurance practices – often earn high marks for customer service. When it comes to cybersecurity, however, it’s a challenge for smaller firms with limited staffing and security budgets to keep pace with their larger peers.

When you think about common anti-malware security techniques, ‘sandboxing’ undoubtedly comes to mind. This technique was first applied in the early 1990s and has proven so highly effective that it is still used widely today, over twenty years later. In recent years, sandboxes with built-in analytics have been leveraged to add an extra layer of security to anti-virus, firewall and other defensive solutions, providing a safe place to “detonate” files that might carry zero-day exploits, ransomware and other threats without risking endpoints or the networks to which they’re connected.

Today, with browser-borne threats becoming an increasingly grave concern for organizational endpoints and networks, does the sandboxing approach still provide adequate protection against browser-executable malicious code? Let’s dig into the issue and see where it leads us.

Businesses worldwide are facing substantially elevated security risks – the unintended result of doubling down on VPNs to quickly connect suddenly remote workforces to the corporate apps and data they need. Cybercrime has surged as hackers exploit new opportunities to penetrate organizations with relative ease. In response to this increase in advanced threats, more businesses are exploring adding Zero Trust Network Access capabilities to protect their networks. In this paper, we discuss two ways to add these important safeguards: Through Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) solutions and with a new solution called Ericom Application Isolator.