Modern businesses run through the browser. The modern office worker interacts with a dozen internal and external web applications every day. This means that the browser is both a worker’s most important tool and also their biggest security threat. Today’s IT security teams respond to this threat by leveraging browser security tools. A browser security tool is any tool that integrates with your browser to improve your company’s security posture. Obviously, that’s a pretty broad category. By definition, it could even include the browser itself, if your browser choice is linked to your company’s security. That breadth means that even as we discuss the top options for browser security tools today, it’s important for you to understand your company’s needs to find the best tool for your security profile.Top 4 Security Tools to Know AboutSeraphicSeraphic is a “bring your own browser” security tool that integrates with any browser your employees might need to use. While we’re a long way past the days of browser wars bringing wildly different capabilities to the table, it’s still important to meet employees where they’re at when it comes to their browser choices. Seraphic provides exploit prevention against malicious website code, helps prevent social engineering attacks, and ensures that sensitive data doesn’t leave the browser.SpinCRXIn a world with constantly changing threat landscapes and company requirements, SpinCRX provides the core browser security your company needs, while also being agile enough to counter emerging threats. SpinCRX automatically assesses the risk of any browser extension your users wish to install, giving you full visibility and control to mitigate third-party risks. This proprietary solution will analyze the extension with a groundbreaking combination of sandbox analysis, EDR-style analysis, and proprietary methodology. Sandbox analysis determines what actions the extension attempts when installed. This is the best way to surface hidden vulnerabilities and backdoors that can circumvent other security controls. AV analysis identifies any extensions that are automatically flagged by a host of endpoint detection and response tools as being malicious. Further, proprietary analysis helps find risks like malicious URLs the extension may be talking to, which can open you up to major risks like command and control attacks, stealthy data exfiltration, ransomware, and more. It also surfaces risks like potential data exposure through public LLMs that may be running in the background, unknown to the user. This is especially important in an age where most employees are installing AI-based extensions to help them improve productivity.SpinCRX has two flexible options to suit your deployment needs. First, you can deploy this to users’ corporate accounts to provide protection for any browsers users launch while logged into their company profile. Second, you can deploy this to any managed endpoint in your environment, ensuring that regardless of which profiles your users’ are logged into while connected to the internet – corporate or personal – you can enforce compliance with what browser extensions they install. This is helpful to mitigate the risks that emerge when users have more than one Google profile, for example – which applies to most people. It’s also vital in enterprise environments with mature security and compliance policies and/or a hybrid cloud architecture.What’s more, because Spin leverages AI risk assessments, they can respond to new threats as they emerge, without needing to wait for stolid security bureaucracy to update threat definition software. Spin is trusted by 500+ partners and more than three million SaaS users worldwide to secure their browsers. Red AccessRed Access is an “agentless” browser security tool that requires no changes from admins and causes no interruption for users. They protect against threats in any cloud and, importantly, on any device. Because they don’t rely on a software agent installed on your system, they can protect against threats on mobile or desktop, and in any browser that your employee wants to use.Manage Engine Browser Security PlusBrowser Security Plus (BSP) is a browser security solution designed for enterprise use. It’s designed to provide complete visibility into your browser-based network usage trends and installed extensions. Then it allows you to enforce your organization’s browser policies, giving your security team control over which tools and applications employees access via their browser. Finally, a wide array of reports gives you 360-degree visibility into your browser environment, offering you a solid compliance foundation. BSP provides integrations with every major and minor browser on the market, allowing employees to bring their own browser to suit their needs. BSP even supports far legacy versions of Internet Explorer, for environments where your team needs to continue with legacy software but still requires everyday security. Microsoft has ended support for IE 11 and earlier versions, so most organizations find that the best approach is to move to modern browsers, which BSP also supports. But if you need to keep unsupported versions around, BSP supports those, too.Features to Look for in a Browser Security ToolThe most important thing to remember is that nobody knows your security requirements better than your company. This is such an important space, and there are so many players, that no matter your risk profile, you’ll be able to find a tool to fit your needs. With that in mind, here are the features that we find to be the most critical for the highest number of companies.Integrates With Every Cloud ProviderCloud-based applications are the core of nearly every business today. It doesn’t matter if you’re using Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, or another cloud. The reality is that your cloud provider is likely to be the beating heart of your business, so you can’t ignore cloud security. But with the majority of companies leveraging more than one cloud provider, you also can’t afford to adopt a tool that only works with one or two cloud providers. Protects Your Most Valuable DataIdentifying and protecting your most critical data is often the most important job for a security team. After all, without your company’s critical data, your company’s day-to-day operations would probably cease. Even worse would be that data falling into the hands of your competitors. This makes data loss/leak prevention critical. Since so much of your company’s key data passes through employee browsers, you need a security tool that understands any risk of data exposure that your extensions may pose and gives you all the information you need to keep your data safe.Policy ComplianceBecause the browser is such an important tool, it’s also a primary surface for enforcing your security policies. So it’s important for you to choose a tool that empowers your team to set and enforce policies. Whether those policies are defined internally or come from legal governance requirements, you need a browser security tool that allows you to enforce them across your organization.Third-Party Risk ManagementAs we’ve noted, most companies aren’t only using internal tools and cloud platforms. Most companies integrate their tools with third-party platforms as well. You need a tool that can detect actions taken by third-party browser extensions. How to Choose the Right Browser Security ToolThere’s no breakthrough secret to picking the right browser security tool for your organization. You have to put in the work, just like any other project. If I were in a position where I needed to pick a browser security tool for my organization today, these are the steps that I’d follow:Identify your organization’s needs, wants, and nice-to-haves.Use that required feature set to identify a set of browser security tools that will meet your needs by researching the market.Reach out to vendors to learn more about the products in question.Schedule a demo with the vendors who look the most promising.Roll out a pilot program (or programs) with internal users to find out how your chosen tool(s) work for your team.Choose the vendor that best serves your needs.Get to work rolling your new tool out to your users.Spin Is Here for Your Browser Security NeedsWe do the hard work of staying on top of the ever-shifting landscape, allowing your team to think and act strategically to protect your company’s interests. If you’re curious about what our browser security tools bring to the table, book some time with us to walk through a demo or start a free trial today. Share this article Share this post on Linkedin Share this post on X Share this post on Facebook Share this post on Reddit Was this helpful? Yes No Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!