The browser has become the enterprise workspace. Employees, contractors, partners, and third parties use browsers to access SaaS applications, internal web apps, admin consoles, collaboration tools, and AI services from anywhere, often across a mix of managed, unmanaged, and personally owned devices. 

As they do, adversaries are increasingly targeting the browser session itself. They use phishing, malicious extensions, session hijacking, adversary-in-the-middle techniques, browser exploits, and AI-powered attacks to bypass controls that stop at the endpoint, network, or login event.

This shift has created a critical security gap. Legacy secure access tools such as virtual private networks (VPNs), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), security access service edge (SASE), cloud access security broker (CASB), and remote browser isolation were designed around networks, perimeters, traffic inspection, and static authentication. While they can play important roles, they fail to secure what happens inside the browser session, where credentials are entered, SaaS apps are used, sensitive data is shared, AI tools are accessed, and session tokens can be stolen. 

CrowdStrike Falcon® Secure Access closes that gap. Now available for customers to purchase and deploy through the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, Falcon Secure Access extends CrowdStrike’s AI-native protection into the browser session to help organizations secure access, identity, data, GenAI applications, AI-powered browser extensions, and unmanaged device workflows through a browser-native approach.

A Leader in Zero Trust Browser Security

CrowdStrike has been named Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Global Enabling Technology Leader in Zero Trust Browser Security. This highlights CrowdStrike’s differentiated approach to securing the browser from within, rather than relying on network routing, dedicated browser replacement, or traditional browser extensions.

“The cybersecurity industry has long grappled with the challenge of securing browser-based activity without degrading performance or user experience,” Frost & Sullivan states in its report. “Falcon Secure Access addresses this challenge through a groundbreaking innovation: a JavaScript runtime security module injected at the engine level, rather than relying on traditional browser extensions.”

Falcon Secure Access gives organizations real-time visibility and control across traditional browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and emerging AI browsers. By embedding protection directly into the browser runtime, it helps security teams enforce policy across browser sessions, applications, data movement, extensions, AI tools, and remote access workflows without forcing users into unfamiliar browsers or disruptive infrastructure changes. Falcon Secure Access enables users to securely continue working with the browsers and workflows they already know.

Our approach helps organizations:

• Secure access to SaaS, web, and internal applications without VPN or VDI friction
• Protect against phishing, malicious JavaScript, browser exploits, and session hijacking inside active sessions
• Continuously evaluate identity, device posture, user behavior, location, and threat context throughout the entire session 
• Control data actions such as copy and paste, upload, download, screenshots, printing, and form entry
• Govern risky browser extensions, including AI-powered extensions
• Discover and control GenAI tool usage
• Enable secure access for contractors, third parties, bring your own device (BYOD) users, and unmanaged devices
• Reduce dependence on proxy infrastructure and remote isolation models that add cost and complexity

CrowdStrike is “redefining how enterprises secure digital interactions,” the report concluded, citing our engine-level approach, flexible deployment models, and ecosystem integrations as key reasons driving our leadership in the Zero Trust browser security market.

Built for the Distributed, AI-Powered Workforce

In addition to full-time employees using managed corporate devices, modern organizations often provision contractors, partners, consultants, suppliers, and third parties who require fast, secure access to enterprise resources from unmanaged or lightly managed devices.

Falcon Secure Access helps organizations enable these workflows with less friction. Instead of requiring VPN setup or forcing users into remote browser isolation, organizations can provide secure, separated work experiences that protect enterprise applications and data while helping preserve personal browsing privacy.

Secure access is no longer only about connecting a user to an application. It is about continuously protecting the full session after access is granted. Falcon Secure Access helps organizations apply real-time context-aware controls across identity, device posture, user behavior, browser activity, data movement, extensions, AI usage, and threat signals.

As AI accelerates the need for browser-native security, Falcon Secure Access delivers it. Employees are using GenAI applications, AI-powered browser extensions, AI-enabled SaaS features, and emerging agentic browsers to work faster and automate tasks. While these tools can increase productivity, they also create new risks around sensitive data exposure, prompt-based workflows, extension permissions, session access, and automated actions.

CrowdStrike secures how GenAI applications and agents are accessed through the browser, preventing shadow AI tools from scraping or exfiltrating sensitive data. Frost noted how the “ability to secure AI browsers and Electron apps (e.g., VS Code GPT integration) at the engine level addresses blind spots in traditional SASE/CASB models.”

Falcon Secure Access gives organizations granular visibility and policy enforcement across GenAI applications, AI-powered extensions, and emerging AI browser workflows. This helps teams adopt AI while maintaining control over sensitive data and enterprise access.

Extending the Falcon Platform into the Browser Session

Falcon Secure Access brings browser session telemetry and control into the broader Falcon platform. As part of CrowdStrike’s Continuous Identity vision, it extends real-time enforcement into the browser session, turning browser activity, user behavior, device posture, and application interaction into live signals for continuous access decisions.

As part of the Falcon platform, Falcon Secure Access extends CrowdStrike’s identity-first security, endpoint telemetry, threat intelligence, and AI-native detection into the browser. This brings browser activity into a broader security context across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, threat intelligence, and data activity.

Frost & Sullivan noted the importance of Falcon Secure Access integrations with the Falcon platform, including CrowdStrike Falcon Zero Trust Assessment, CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM telemetry, CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield for SaaS security posture management, CrowdStrike Falcon® AI Detection and Response (AIDR), and CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security to enforce zero standing privileges across human, non-human, and AI agent identities. 

This creates a powerful path forward: Security teams can move beyond isolated browser tools and extend unified protection into one of the most important control points in the enterprise.

Learn more about CrowdStrike Falcon Secure Access by visiting the Falcon Secure Access webpage.

Read the report: Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Global Enabling Technology Leader in Zero Trust Browser Security

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