WEBGAP named by Gartner in their Innovation Insight For Remote Browser Isolation Report

WALNUT, Calif. - June 11, 2018 - PRLog -- WEBGAP INC, a market leader in remote browser isolation, announced today that leading research and advisory company Gartner, Inc. cited WEBGAP as a Representative Remote Browser Provider in the March 2018 Innovation Insight for Remote Browser Isolation report.

According to the report, "The very act of users browsing the internet and clicking on URL links opens the enterprise to significant risk...The public internet is a cesspool of attacks, many of which are delivered to enterprise users through the everyday act of browsing the web or clicking on a URL in email. Yet, we feel that completely barring users from the internet is impractical at best."

Similarly, despite intensive internet safety training programs, human factor errors such as opening malicious links in emails and opening infected attachments are responsible for a great many attacks on enterprise systems. According to Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst Neil MacDonald, author of the report, "rather than delude ourselves that we can block all attacks, let's acknowledge and accept that some attacks will succeed no matter what we do…Instead, we must focus on containing the ability of the attacker to cause damage and reduce the surface area for attack."

Gartner identifies remote browser isolation as a "key preventative strategy in its Adaptive Security Architecture for attack prevention." The report further states, "Through 2022, organizations that isolate high-risk internet browsing and access to URLs in email will experience a 70% reduction in attacks that compromise end-user systems." By effectively isolating endpoints from browser-executable code, it reduces attacks that compromise end-user systems by 70%, while eliminating the need to detect or identify malware.

In the report, Gartner recommends that security and risk management leaders operating and evolving cloud security "evaluate and pilot a remote browser solution in 2018 for specific high-risk users, such as finance, or use cases such as rendering email-based URLs, particularly if your organization is risk-averse." The firm estimates that "by 2022, 25% of enterprises will adopt browser isolation techniques for some high-risk users and use cases, up from less than 1% in 2017."

"We are proud that Gartner has recognized WEBGAP as a Representative Remote Browser Isolation Provider," said Guise Bule, CEO of WEBGAP Inc.

He went on to say "Furthermore we believe that our containerized and grid distributed architecture which requires approximately ten times less infrastructure than virtualization based competitors, puts WEBGAP ahead of the pack in remote browser isolation".

WEBGAP is a massively scalable browser isolation solution, one built to handle millions of simultaneous users and deliver a cost-effective remote browser solution.  Featuring a highly unique webpage runtime rendering feature that strips potentially malicious code from webpages before displaying them to the user, WEBGAP can be thought of as a remote browser 2.0 solution.

When the majority vendors in the remote browser isolation space are focused on virtualization based stacks and call it a day after effective isolation has been delivered, WEBGAP goes a step further by providing a cleaner, purer isolated internet to users.

For further reading please refer to the full report by Gartner, "Innovation Insight for Remote Browser Isolation," Neil MacDonald, 8 March 2018. https://www.gartner.com/doc/3867063/innovation-insight-re...

ABOUT WEBGAP

Based in Walnut, California, WEBGAP INC is the developer of the WEBGAP Engine remote browser isolation platform, a proprietary technology built upon the principles of cybersecurity through physical isolation and designed to cost effectively deliver a large scale remote browser isolation service to millions of simultaneous users.  The founding team behind WEBGAP have previously spent close to a decade building browser isolation platforms for the US federal government.

For more information please visit https://webgap.io or email info@webgap.io.