In recent years, the habits of knowledge workers have undergone a profound transformation, with a seismic shift toward distributed workforces, hybrid work patterns, and the widespread use of personal devices for work. At the same time, cloud-based applications and services continue to factor more and more prominently in the day-to-day tasks of knowledge workers, and organizations frequently enable direct internet access to these cloud services to optimize performance, latency, and user experience.

This evolution creates challenges to traditional perimeter-focused security approaches. The boundaries of the traditional office have dissolved, as knowledge workers now access sensitive data and collaborate from various locations, often utilizing unmanaged personal devices and networks. This increased mobility and flexibility, while fostering productivity and innovation, has simultaneously expanded the attack surface, created gaps in security control coverage, and increased the risk of successful and disruptive breaches.

Traditional security measures, which are primarily designed to secure the corporate network perimeter, struggle to adapt to this dispersed and dynamic environment. As a result, many organizations would be well served by reevaluating their security strategies to include enterprise browser technologies, which prioritize security, manageability, and the protection of sensitive data users need to access to do their jobs. However, the enterprise browser market is relatively nascent, so customer understanding is dynamic and fluid.