Business Case For Web Isolation

This white paper presents a compelling business case for adopting web isolation technology as a proactive cybersecurity measure. Traditional detect-and-respond solutions are proving increasingly ineffective against sophisticated, socially engineered attacks that exploit human vulnerabilities through email and web channels. With 95% of attacks leveraging email and 4.5 billion records compromised in just the first half of 2018, enterprises face a growing threat—and mounting costs.

The paper outlines how detect-and-respond strategies incur significant operational expenses, including malware containment ($2.5M annually), frequent device reimaging ($3–4M per year), false positive alert fatigue ($1.27M+), high employee turnover, and inflated help desk costs due to blocked content. In contrast, web isolation creates a virtual barrier between the user and malicious content, executing all sessions remotely and mirroring only safe, rendered content to endpoints. This approach offers 100% malware protection by ensuring no active code ever reaches the device.

Isolation not only reduces risk but also cuts cybersecurity overhead dramatically. It eliminates reimaging, false positives, help desk bottlenecks, and analyst burnout, enabling companies to reallocate millions in security spend toward innovation.

Reduce your risk, eliminate inefficiencies, and reclaim your security budget—explore Menlo Security’s Isolation Platform today.