PaloAlto and LayerX - two companies worth listening to - have published reports which list the humble and ubiquitous web browser as an emerging threat to CyberSecurity. The reason our web browser has earned this tag is a little oblique - it's not because they are installed on every device you can image (including your smart fridge) but because it's replacing installed applications. And a cornerstone of CyberSecurity is application control! Rather than installing an accounting package, we do it in the web browser. Instead of install an Office suite and reading our email in an email application like Outlook, we edit our docs and email in a web browser. Our AI session is all web based. Our Online training is web based. The ChromeBook dream (or was that Nightmare?) is web for everything and it's coming true. We now have to extend security controls into the web browser session and that takes a little more ... well ... control!
The articles can be read at 6 Predictions for the AI Economy: 2026's New Rules of Cybersecurity and Why The Browser Has Become the Enterprise’s Most Overlooked Endpoint