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The End of Secure Web Gateways: Why Enterprises Must Look Beyond The Network Layer to Secure Employee Browsing

By SquareX | Friday, November 8, 2024, 3:11 PM Asia/Singapore

The End of Secure Web Gateways: Why Enterprises Must Look Beyond The Network Layer to Secure Employee Browsing

Secure Web Gateways (SWGs) have long been the guardian of the web in enterprise security. However, as cyber threats evolve, with more and more client side web attacks occurring in the wild, these legacy systems are proving increasingly ineffective, leaving organisations exposed. In the age of SaaS and browser-centric work environments, SWGs are struggling to keep up, particularly with the rise of Last Mile Reassembly Attacks.

Last Mile Reassembly Attacks exploit the fundamental limitations of SWGs by assembling malicious payloads within the user’s browser, beyond the reach of network-level inspections. By leveraging techniques such as file chunking, encryption, and encoding when sending data through the network attackers can evade detection and deliver even known malicious payloads directly to the target’s device. SWGs, which were designed to monitor and filter network traffic, lack the application-layer context needed to detect and prevent these client-side threats.

The flaws inherent in SWGs are not just theoretical. Research conducted by the SquareX team has demonstrated that all major SWGs, including those in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for SASE/SSE, are vulnerable to these evasion techniques. Jointly coined as ‘Last Mile Reassembly Attacks’, SquareX researchers documented more than 30 evasion techniques that might have already been exploited in the wild for some time. Each of them tap on a vulnerability of SWGs. They have also set up a website for anybody, including vendors, to test the efficiency of their SWGs against these Last Mile Reassembly Attacks. The results are clear: SWGs, as they exist today, are no longer sufficient to protect enterprises from modern web threats.

The solution against these attacks lies in adopting a browser-native security approach, which operates directly within the browser and has the visibility necessary to monitor and mitigate threats at the application layer. Solutions like SquareX, provide a robust defence against Last Mile Reassembly Attacks and other advanced threats, by leveraging rich browser data such as DOM changes, browser events, session data, user interactions and feeding it to their detection algorithms, all from within the browser itself.

As enterprises continue to rely more heavily on SaaS applications, most of which are accessed via a browser, it is important for enterprises and vendors to reassess their security framework. Clinging to outdated SWG technology could leave organisations vulnerable to attacks that are easily preventable with modern, browser-native security solutions. The era of Secure Web Gateways is over—it’s time to look beyond the network layer and secure the browser where the real threats now reside.

Test your Secure Web Gateway against these evasion techniques at https://browser.security/

About SquareX:
SquareX helps organizations detect, mitigate and threat-hunt client-side web attacks happening against their users in real time.

SquareX’s industry-first Browser Detection and Response (BDR) solution, takes an attack-focused approach to browser security, ensuring enterprise users are protected against advanced threats like malicious QR Codes, Browser-in-the-Browser phishing, macro-based malware and other web attacks encompassing malicious files, websites, scripts, and compromised networks.

With SquareX, enterprises can provide contractors and remote workers with secure access to internal applications, enterprise SaaS, and convert the browsers on BYOD / unmanaged devices into trusted browsing sessions. 

For more information, visit http://www.sqrx.com

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