Mariner safety is often presented from a defensive perspective. Isolation, zero-day, access policies. Very good.

But there is one angle that no one is addressing: time.

The time your security teams spend categorizing URLs. To reimage posts. To configure VPNs for a provider who intervenes for three days. To manage the umpteenth ticket of a VIP who wants special treatment.

At that time, he does not come back. And it doesn't produce any strategic value.

Here are four concrete operational gains that a secure enterprise browsing solution brings beyond pure security.

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1. Fewer VDIs and duplicates to manage

In many organizations, VDI is used for a single purpose: to provide secure web access. A complete virtual workstation — with its OS, its updates, its updates, its licenses, its support — to browse the Internet.

The cost? From $140 to $500/month per user depending on the source (Axis Security, Apporto). And low estimates don't count the human cost: infrastructure maintenance, update management, support.

It's like renting a truck to transport an envelope.

With a solution like VirtualBrowser, you replace this use case with a fraction of the complexity and cost. No OS to maintain. No virtual office licenses. No double positions to manage.

For IT teams, an entire line disappears from the backlog: fewer VDI tickets, fewer updates to push, less infrastructure to scale.

2. An operational service provider in 2 minutes

An external service provider must access an internal web application. Today, the course looks like this:

• VPN access request → validation → configuration
• Job verification → endpoint compliance → possible MDM
• Creation of accounts, access rights, revocation at the end of the mission
  

On average, 2 to 10 working days (Venn, BUT). In regulated sectors (NIS2, DORA), we are always at the top of the range.

With VirtualBrowser, the provider keeps his usual browser and accesses the application via an isolated browser. No VPN no VDI. No post check. No agents to install.

The service provider's workstation is never connected to the IS. He receives a stream of his session. Nothing else.

Onboarding : a link, an authentication, done. Offboarding : access is cut off. No VPNs to revoke, no workstations to clean.

3. Zero-day: you dictate the tempo

Classic scenario: A critical CVE falls on Chrome on a Friday afternoon. Combat jerk. The security team is mobilizing everyone to patch the park urgently. Sacrificed weekend. Maximum stress.

This scenario is not theoretical. Google recommends a maximum of 21 days to patch Chrome (forbes). In the field, the most mature organizations can take 3 to 7 days to cover the entire park. Exposure window of three to twenty-one days. It's a long time when the exploit is already circulating.

With a Secure Enterprise Browsing solution based on isolation, the scenario is changing radically.

The user's browser does not process any web code. Everything runs on the server side, in an isolated container. The Chrome CVE? It cannot be used on the user's computer.

Proactive action : We use VirtualBrowser. Don't panic. No weekend sacrificed. The patch is deployed at the pace of the business, not under pressure from the attacker.

It is not a time-saver in the classical sense. It's operational serenity. And for a security team, serenity means regained strategic time.

4. The end of URL categorization

How many hours per week does your team spend managing URL lists?

Whitelist, blacklist, categorization, exceptions. An uncategorized site? Ticket. A false positive that blocks a job? Ticket. A salesperson who needs access to a prospective site? Ticket.

With VirtualBrowser, that question goes away.

The site is running in a remote container. Whether categorized or not, malicious or not, nothing reaches the user's computer. Fine URL filtering is becoming optional, more mandatory.

Result: fewer rules to maintain, fewer tickets to deal with, less friction with businesses.

What's really changing

Secure Enterprise Browsing is not just a security solution. It is an operational accelerator.

Each ticket avoided, each VPN not configured, each VDI workstation not administered, that's time for your teams. Time to set up critical projects instead of managing lists of URLs. Time to audit your accesses instead of provisioning disposable VPNs.

Do you want to see in concrete terms what this changes for your team?
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