Island is an enterprise browser that requires organizations to replace users’ existing browsers with a proprietary Chromium-based alternative. This forces behavior change, fragments usage, and creates visibility gaps the moment users step outside the Island browser.
LayerX takes a fundamentally different approach: it is a browser-native security platform that works with the browsers users already use. It delivers full visibility, data protection, and GenAI security without replacing the browser, disrupting workflows, or creating blind spots.
Island requires users to abandon Chrome, Edge, or Safari in favor of a proprietary browser. This creates resistance, slows adoption, and introduces ongoing friction for both users and IT teams.
The moment users access SaaS or GenAI tools in a non-Island browser, visibility is lost. Shadow AI, personal accounts, and non-SSO activity remain completely unmonitored.
Island breaks native integrations with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and modern AI tools by isolating work into a non-native environment, reducing efficiency and user satisfaction.
Running and maintaining a separate enterprise browser adds deployment, patching, and support complexity, while delivering slower time-to-value and higher total cost.
Set last-mile user guardrails on any user activity, and applyHigh implementation overhead and pushback from users make it difficult to get buy-in from users to use the Island browser. This leads to user pushback and support tickets, making it difficult to achieve full deployment of the solution across the organization. granular enforcement controls
LayerX works directly inside existing browsers, securing activity without changing how users work or forcing retraining.
LayerX protects both work and personal accounts, across managed and unmanaged browsers, eliminating the blind spots Island creates.
LayerX enforces real-time DLP, identity-aware controls, and AI prompt protection across all web activity, not just inside a single browser.
LayerX deploys in minutes as a lightweight extension, with no agents, no browser replacement, and immediate security value.
LayerX works inside users’ existing browsers, eliminating resistance, retraining, and workflow changes. This enables fast rollout, high user adoption, and IT teams avoid pushback and support tickets, making full deployment fast and realistic.
"LayerX Provides all the visibility and enforcement we need for last-mile user interactions with AI, SaaS & Web applications"
Jay DePaul ,
Chief Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Officer
Island secures only what happens inside its browser.
LayerX secures how people actually work.