The Enterprise Browser Extension

LayerX agentless platform integrates with ANY browser to secure the enterprise from all web-borne threats and browsing risks that endpoint and network solutions can’t protect against, such as data leakage over the web, GenAI data risks, risky browser extensions, advanced web attacks, Shadow SaaS, and more.

The browser is the nerve center of the modern workspace, connecting all devices, identities & SaaS apps and has access to all user activities on the web, stored credentials and sensitive data. This makes it the enterprise’s #1 blind spot for data leakage and risk vector for an account takeover

LayerX Solutions

GenAI Security

The Challenge

GenAI tools enable a significant productivity boost, but also expose organizations to data leakage by sharing sensitive corporate data with LLMs.

The Solution

LayerX allows organizations to map GenAI usage in the organization, enforce security governance, and restrict sharing sensitive information.

Web/SaaS DLP & Insider Threat

The Challenge

The ease of use and availability of file-sharing SaaS apps and online shared drives make it the #1 channel for inadvertent or malicious data leakage.

The Solution

LayerX allows organizations to track all file-sharing SaaS apps and online drives and to control user activity in them, to prevent accidental or malicious data leakage.

Shadow SaaS & SaaS Security

The Challenge

Most enterprise applications today are SaaS-based, but organizations lack tools to properly secure SaaS usage or identify unsanctioned ‘shadow’ SaaS apps.

The Solution

LayerX provides full audit of all SaaS applications and users in the organization, and applies granular, risk-based guardrails over all SaaS usage.

GenAI Security

The Challenge

GenAI tools enable a significant productivity boost, but also expose organizations to data leakage by sharing sensitive corporate data with LLMs.

The Solution

LayerX allows organizations to map GenAI usage in the organization, enforce security governance, and restrict sharing sensitive information.

Web/SaaS DLP & Insider Threat

The Challenge

The ease of use and availability of file-sharing SaaS apps and online shared drives make it the #1 channel for inadvertent or malicious data leakage.

The Solution

LayerX allows organizations to track all file-sharing SaaS apps and online drives and to control user activity in them, to prevent accidental or malicious data leakage.

Shadow SaaS & SaaS Security

The Challenge

Most enterprise applications today are SaaS-based, but organizations lack tools to properly secure SaaS usage or identify unsanctioned ‘shadow’ SaaS apps.

The Solution

LayerX provides full audit of all SaaS applications and users in the organization, and applies granular, risk-based guardrails over all SaaS usage.

Risky Browser Extensions Protection

The Challenge

Browser extensions are routinely granted extensive permissions, putting users’ cookies, identities and passwords at risk.

The Solution

LayerX offers full visibility into all browser extensions on all browsers, automatically classifies risk, and provides active enforcement against risky extensions.

Safe Browsing

The Challenge

Web applications are the main avenue for delivering malware and other vulnerabilities, but traditional defenses are ineffective against new hacker evasion techniques.

The Solution

LayerX uses an AI-powered analysis engine to perform runtime code scanning of every web page object and automatically block malicious code elements.

Identity Protection

The Challenge

Most data breaches today are the result of identity threats, but organizations have no way of monitoring, controlling or governing identity usage.

The Solution

LayerX protects against external threats such as phishing and malicious websites, and provides internal governance over identities, passwords, shared accounts, etc.

Risky Browser Extensions Protection

The Challenge

Browser extensions are routinely granted extensive permissions, putting users’ cookies, identities and passwords at risk.

The Solution

LayerX offers full visibility into all browser extensions on all browsers, automatically classifies risk, and provides active enforcement against risky extensions.

Safe Browsing

The Challenge

Web applications are the main avenue for delivering malware and other vulnerabilities, but traditional defenses are ineffective against new hacker evasion techniques.

The Solution

LayerX uses an AI-powered analysis engine to perform runtime code scanning of every web page object and automatically block malicious code elements.

Identity Protection

The Challenge

Most data breaches today are the result of identity threats, but organizations have no way of monitoring, controlling or governing identity usage.

The Solution

LayerX protects against external threats such as phishing and malicious websites, and provides internal governance over identities, passwords, shared accounts, etc.

Secure Access by BYOD/ Contractors

The Challenge

Organizations have no control over remote SaaS access by remote users and 3rd-party contractors from unmanaged devices / BYOD.

The Solution

LayerX can be deployed on both managed or unmanaged devices to enable browser-based last-mile control over SaaS access to corporate resources by any user.

VDI Reduction

The Challenge

VDI is often used to enable remote SaaS access, leading organizations to seek other solutions with better security controls, lower management overhead, and lower TCO.

The Solution

LayerX reduces reliance on VDI by enabling remote SaaS access with granular browser-based security guardrails, lower overhead, lower user impact and lower cost.

RBI Alternative

The Challenge: 


Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) solutions provide limited protection while causing massive disruption to the user browsing experience.

The Solution

LayerX replaces legacy RBI solutions and protects against both web and identity threats across all SaaS sites and all browsers, with no disruption to the user experience.

Secure Access by BYOD/ Contractors

The Challenge

Organizations have no control over remote SaaS access by remote users and 3rd-party contractors from unmanaged devices / BYOD.

The Solution

LayerX can be deployed on both managed or unmanaged devices to enable browser-based last-mile control over SaaS access to corporate resources by any user.

VDI Reduction

The Challenge

VDI is often used to enable remote SaaS access, leading organizations to seek other solutions with better security controls, lower management overhead, and lower TCO.

The Solution

LayerX reduces reliance on VDI by enabling remote SaaS access with granular browser-based security guardrails, lower overhead, lower user impact and lower cost.

RBI Alternative

The Challenge: 


Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) solutions provide limited protection while causing massive disruption to the user browsing experience.

The Solution

LayerX replaces legacy RBI solutions and protects against both web and identity threats across all SaaS sites and all browsers, with no disruption to the user experience.

What our customers say

“With LayerX, we can allow our employees to use all the online productivity tools they would like to use, like GenAI apps and browser extensions, without worrying about data leakage or an account takeover.ˮ

Daniel Lehman, Director Of Technology

“Visibility is essential; however, gathering insights from tools outside the browser can be time-consuming and even challenging. LayerX addresses this gap simply and effectively.ˮ

Tomer Maman, CISO

“With LayerX, we were able gain visibility, detection and prevention for any web-borne risks, without disrupting user experience of our employees and contractors”

Shahar Geiger Maor, Former CISO

"Ease of implementation, provides a long list of features we were looking into in order to strengthen our overall security posture."

CISO

Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)

"Robust Extension Management using single console across all browsers, Real-time Threat Detection, User-Centric Support, Customizable solutions, Easy and User-Friendly integration"

Architecture Associate Director

Enterprise(< 1000 emp.)

"Layer X offers seamless experience, robust granularity and very effective control of browser based security risks"

CISO

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

"Helps prevent employees from adding malicious browser extensions"

Information Security Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

"We needed a solution for creating policies to protect data. LayerX was the one"

Data Security Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

"LayerX allows me to protect our company's apps from data loss and account takeover"

Chief Information Security Officer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

"Better than a SWG and network solutions at securing web access for cloud first companies."

Security Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

"LayerX helps me get my job done in an easier fashion."

Director of Security Operations

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

"I absolutely love the high block rate of phishing attacks that LayerX provides!"

Director of Information Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Come as you are

Productivity, user experience and privacy are top of mind

Near-Zero User
Impact

Transparently steer you workforce towards secure browser usage, preventing web-borne risks and threats with minimal impact on their browsing user experience

Employees’ Privacy
Above All

LayerX's in-browser ML engine analyzes browsing events locally. No PII and private content ever leaves the browser. The only data sent to the management console is alerts on risky sessions

Seamless
Deployment

Integrate seamlessly with any browser and most IDP and security platforms, covering your entire environment in a single click

Bring your own
Browser

Enable your users to use their existing browsers of choice to access both business and personal web destinations.

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FAQs

What’s the difference between LayerX and enterprise browser solutions like Talon and Island?

LayerX protects your entire browser ecosystem as is, without requiring your users to shift, wholly or partially, to a new browser. At LayerX we understand that the browser choice of an enterprise is driven by many factors, and that both CISOs and users don’t want to migrate from their favorite browser to a customized one. LayerX’s platform mitigates the same browser security risks as Talon and Island, while being more focused on the browsing process itself and maintaining all the security and productivity advantages commercial browsers provide. Moreover, the enterprise browser introduces inevitable blind spots, stemming from the side-by-side deployment of the enterprise browser and the commercial one. With LayerX these gaps don’t exist in the first place since there is only one browser to monitor and control, providing hermetic security coverage to any browsing activity users perform.

Why do I need a browser security platform?

There is a wide range of risks and threats that is either only partially covered by other solutions or not at all. Among the second group, two prominent examples are monitoring and protection of user activity on unsanctioned apps and other non-corporate web destinations, as well as prevention of installing malicious extensions on the browser which is a leading credential theft vector. These capabilities are absent from any other security product today. A browser security platform provides secure solutions to these vulnerabilities.

What’s the difference between LayerX and browser isolation solutions?

Browser isolation solutions are focused on preventing exploitation execution and malware download by creating a secure environment where they can run without interacting with the ‘real machine’. At LayerX we believe that this approach is subject to three main flaws. First, exploits and malware are already soundly addressed by today’s commercial browsers and Endpoint Protection solutions. Second, browsing isolation is infamous for resource consuming and degrading the endpoint’s performance. And third, and probably the most important flaw, browser isolation lacks the ability to address the wider perspective of the browser risk landscape in which phishing, data leakage, and SaaS risks have prominent presence. Browser isolation doesn’t address these risks since it only targets activities that take place within a live web session. LayerX’s browser extension approach, on the other hand, provides comprehensive coverage to the web-borne risk landscape, by monitoring these web sessions in real-time to detect suspicious activity, while conducting contextual cloud-based isolation and assuring that the user experience is at the best possible level.

How exactly does LayerX make it easier to provide 3rd party access to my resources?

With LayerX you don’t have to allocate 3rd party contractors a managed device. Instead, deploy (by installation or sign in) a managed browser profile, which is protected with the LayerX extension, on their own devices. This enables them to connect to your SaaS apps via the LayerX protected browser profile. You can then craft dedicated access and activity policies and provide them with seamless access only to the data they need within these apps, while keeping all other data secure.

Doesn’t continuous monitoring of all user activity on the web violate the user’s privacy?

Not at all! Continuous monitoring refers to the action that takes place locally within LayerX’s in-browser ML engine and not to the data sent to LayerX’s management console. This engine has granular visibility into every browsing event to ensure it can detect indications of malicious activity effectively and in a timely manner. However, the vast majority of this data, including Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and private content, never leaves the browser at all. The only data that is sent to the LayerX cloud is alerts on risky activities for the security team to investigate and respond to.

Aren’t my SaaS applications already protected by my CASB solution?

Your main applications (Office, Box, etc.) are covered in terms of visibility, as long as they are centrally installed and managed. However, CASB is only as good as the API of the apps it protects, which introduces inconsistencies in the levels of visibility between different apps. CASB isn’t effective with unmanaged applications and shadow SaaS. Additionally, CASB is not strong in actually preventing malicious activity. LayerX provides a consistent level of monitoring and control to all applications, with no API dependency, and can prevent any malicious activity upon detection of risk.

How is LayerX deployed in a production environment?

For managed devices, LayerX is easily installed in a few clicks with device management tools (such as Group Policy). For unmanaged devices, we provide identity-centric deployment that allows users to load a managed browser profile into their unmanaged device with a lightweight installer or a simple sign in. The LayerX unmanaged deployment allows users to access and interact with corporate cloud apps using a managed browser profile, without it ever monitoring any other device or personal browsing activity.

How can LayerX harden the authentication requirements for my SaaS applications?

The LayerX extension’s user profile can be used as an additional authentication factor on top of the user account. This can be implemented either as a standalone factor or by integrating LayerX with the cloud identity provider.

What is the impact of LayerX extension on the browsing user experience?

Near zero. LayerX was built and designed to transparently steer users to secure browsing. I only interferes with the browsing activity when the activity introduces a risk to data, devices, or applications.

Can LayerX also protect my on-prem legacy applications as well?

Certainly. LayerX can protect any application that is accessed through a browser with access policies that act as authentication factor and activity policies that act as an authorization mechanism.

How does LayerX protect against credential theft from my device?

LayerX can prevent web-based attempts to steal user credentials. It scans for phishing sites, prevents credential leakage to suspicious apps, and blocks risky browser extensions that may harvest user credentials. In addition, LayerX can modify, restrict, or block the storage of credentials on the hosting device in order to address device threats, such as malware attempting to steal the browser password data.

What is a browser security platform?

A browser security platform is a new cyber security product category that acknowledges the critical role browsers have in today’s IT environments. These products address all the risks and threats to the browser’s data, the device it runs on, or SaaS apps that access through it, in a centralized manner. Continuous monitoring, risk analysis, and policy enforcement on user activities focus on the browser itself, where the activity actually takes place, rather than applying it to mere network traffic, which is inherently limited in the data and context it can provide.

Why isn’t my firewall enough to prevent employees from accessing malicious web pages?

A firewall flags malicious web destinations based on their hostname/URL and is blind to the content of each web page itself. This approach lags behind the rapid and dynamic nature of modern web phishing. As a result many malicious pages can evade it. Attackers nowadays abuse cloud services and SaaS applications in order to distribute phishing and malware. A firewall simply doesn’t have the required visibility into the various components that indicate if a website is malicious or not. LayerX scans the webpage’s content and applies AI analysis to detect malicious attributes, yielding a far higher success rate.

How does LayerX work?

LayerX is a browser-agnostic security platform, delivered as a lightweight extension that aggregates all activity data for monitoring and risk analysis purposes to enforce secure access and browsing. With LayerX, security teams configure activity policies to prevent risky user activities in the browser that can expose apps, devices, and data to risk of compromise or data loss. Once an activity policy is activated, the LayerX cloud service pushes it to the extension that performs the actual enforcement on the browser. The extension has three functionalities: processing activity data and reporting to the cloud service, receiving policies from the cloud service and enforcing it, and analyzing risk together with the cloud service. Layer X integrates with identity management tools and zero trust access systems to ensure minimal overhead for security teams and efficient use of their time.

The Enterprise Browser Extension

With LayerX, any organization can protect its identities, SaaS apps, data and devices from web-borne threats and browsing risks, while maintaining a top-notch user experience.