Last year a report by the ubiquitous technology analysis company Gartner concluded that browser isolation — a concept employed by fewer than 1 percent of enterprises — would mushroom to a 20 percent adoption rate by 2021 because of the way the internet has become a “cesspool” of malicious content. Security giant Symantec is betting that Gartner report becomes a reality, having announced the acquisition of Israeli start-up FireGlass for an undisclosed sum last week. “When you install this technology [in an enterprise network], you end up with a 70 percent reduction in the number of events reported to the security operations center,” Symantec CEO Greg Clark told CyberScoop, calling it “a huge step forward that no one can ignore.” Browser isolation works by executing code from a website, email or plugin in a so-called DMZ, a sealed, disposable container on a server remote from the endpoint — computer, smartphone, tablet — that the […]
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