The Browser Is the Policy Enforcement Point

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Security still spends as if the firewall, the proxy, and the endpoint agent are where policy should fire. They are not. Work authenticates in a tab, data leaves through a paste or an upload, and attackers now sit in that same session. The browser is the enforcement point that matters, and architecture that treats it as a client of the network is already behind.

That is not a claim that most companies have finished the move. Gartner’s February 2026 Market Guide for Secure Enterprise Browsers, as cited by Chrome Enterprise, still put secure-enterprise-browser adoption at about 10%, with a rise to 25% of organizations by 2028. Ten percent is not a completed shift. It is an admission that the old enforcement points no longer cover the place where the work actually runs.

The Session Is the Resource

On Jan 14th, 2026, Sunil Gentyala, in a Cloud Security Alliance technical...

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