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RBI is a crucial security feature for enterprises in an increasingly web-centric world, protecting against a wide range of web-based threats while allowing employees to access the internet securely—and without interruption.
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What is Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)? A deep dive into the newest component of Windstream Enterprise SASE and SSE
March 12, 2025 · Chris Alberding · 4 min
Protect your enterprise from any and every web-based threat. Learn how Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) helps to accomplish this and why it’s a critical component of SASE and SSE to defending against malicious web content.
Most, if not every, organization rely on a handful of web applications and browsers to help accomplish all types of business functions. However, according to the National Institutes of Health, it’s the unfortunate truth that many of these applications can make your business vulnerable to malicious cyberattacks that can ultimately cause harm to your organization and its stakeholders. Detecting malicious websites is essential to preventing the spreading of malware and protect end-users from being victims—but it can be hard to do in today’s complex digital environment.
One component of Windstream Enterprise Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Security Service Edge (SSE)—both powered by Cato Networks—continues to support businesses with protection against existing websites. This component is known as Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and it works to prevents unsecured traffic from entering an organization’s internal network by safeguarding users from being infected by malicious web traffic, websites, viruses and ransomware.
While SWG acts as a checkpoint between all incoming and outgoing data, and filters unwanted software and malware from user-initiated web traffic, how about websites that are new or uncategorized? With so many sites being created each day, wouldn’t it be easier to have a technology that could instantly categorize those sites for you? Versus leaning on your team of IT administrators to manually classify them? Yeah, we think so too.
That’s what makes Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) so powerful. It works in partnership with SWG, and SASE’s other core components, to protect organizations from web-based threats by isolating and executing web content (such as websites, links and downloads) in a remote environment, separate from the local endpoint or user’s device.
The primary goal of RBI is to minimize the attack surface and prevent malicious web content from compromising the security of the user’s device or the corporate network. Here’s a few reasons why RBI is an important security feature for enterprises:
Since Windstream Enterprise SASE and SSE is powered by Cato Networks, our customers benefit from the most innovative technology, such as RBI, available in the cybersecurity market. As an end result, these integrated security solutions are giving enterprise IT teams the best of both worlds: productivity and security.
Visit our website to discover all the components and benefits of SASE and SSE, and connect with one of our cybersecurity experts today to learn more about how these solutions can benefit your enterprise.
Chris Alberding oversees the company’s network and security solutions, and has global responsibilities for product revenue forecasts and budgets, as well as strategic and tactical expertise in product management, marketing, process design and sales operations.