So, what is Red Access?
Red Access is session-layer security. Where work actually happens.
Red Access is the security layer that governs what happens inside the web session — on any desktop browser, and across the embedded sessions inside tools your employees already use daily, like Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Claude, and WhatsApp. No replacing your tools, no installing agents, no slowing anyone down.
If CrowdStrike protects the device and Zscaler protects the network, Red Access protects the work happening inside the tab.
TLDR
Security that lives inside the web session
Not on the network, not on the device
Agentless
No new browser. No extension. Nothing to install or change
Full visibility and enforcement
Across browsers, SaaS, GenAI, and desktop apps
Deployed in an afternoon
Most organizations are live before the meeting ends
Closes the blind spot
Complete visibility for what your firewall and EDR miss
Works with your existing stack
No need to rip and replace anything. Not the firewall, not your browsers
BYOD and unmanaged devices covered
Without touching the device itself
The fast route to SSE-grade protection
Without the network overhaul
What problem does Red Access solve?
The web/browser is the new perimeter — and most organizations aren’t securing it at the session layer.
Everything else in the modern security stack was built for a world where work happened inside a network, on a managed device, through known applications. That world is gone. Today, work happens in a web session/browser tab. Data moves through SaaS apps, AI tools, messaging platforms, and embedded webviews — and every one of those interactions is invisible to the firewall, the EDR, and the proxy.
The problem isn’t that existing tools are bad. It’s that they were never built to see inside the session. And those that do — enterprise browsers, browser extensions, RBI platforms — require you to replace the browser entirely, impose heavy infrastructure, or ask your users to work differently. The cure becomes its own problem.
Red Access solves the gap between where security ends and where work begins — without the trade-offs.
Why should I care?
Because most organizations aren’t protected where most of the work now happens — and those who are, got there by piling on cost and complexity.
Most security leaders we talk to find out they’re paying for partial coverage of the session layer through three or four different tools that were never designed to live there — and they’re still not fully covered at the point where most modern work actually happens.
Some can stop a user from pasting an SSN into ChatGPT in real time, but only because they added a dedicated DLP product, deployed an agent, and accepted the management overhead.
Some can tell you which browser extensions exist across the fleet and rate them by risk — but not, as we’ll get to in a moment, in the way that actually matters.
Making sure remote users are as protected as office users is possible too, if your SASE rollout is finished, your VPN is healthy, and nobody’s working from a personal device.
So the capabilities exist — partially. But even where they do, they exist as separate products, separate agents, separate vendors, separate consoles. Each one a project, each one a line item, each one another thing for your team to manage. And none of them, stitched together, deliver the one thing that actually matters at the session layer: context.
Your firewall watches the network. Your EDR watches the device. Neither was built to see inside the session, and the bolt-ons that try to fill the gap each come with their own overhead — and their own blind spots.
That’s where the real risk concentrates today: GenAI prompts, SaaS data movement, extension sprawl, BYOD, contractor access. The first time a CISO turns on session-level visibility — natively, without adding another agent — tends to be uncomfortable. Most call it their “holy shit” moment. We call it a work plan.
A word on context. The tools that exist can tell you “you have these extensions installed across the fleet, and these ones look risky, with too many permissions, low reputation scores.” Useful. But none of them can tell you, in real time: that exact extension — the one with password-reading permissions — is right now sending session traffic to a high-risk geography, and we just blocked it. Red Access can, and will.
This is a huge gap that we close. Existing capabilities are basically like having a tool that can tell you “this user has a PII file on their device” and separately that “this user uses ChatGPT and WhatsApp Desktop”. But without connecting those dots they can’t tell you: this user is right now attaching that PII file to a WhatsApp message — and we blocked it before it sent. Again, Red Access does exactly that.
That’s context. That’s session-layer security. That’s the difference between knowing your environment in theory and governing what actually happens in it. That’s where work happens. That’s where so many risks are. And that’s where most organizations are not covered. That’s why you should care.
How does it work?
Red Access uses a dynamic OS-level configuration — pushed in a single line via your existing MDM, Intune, or GPO — to selectively deliver a lightweight security engine directly into the browser session, in-flight, before the page loads.
That engine is what makes Red Access a Browser EDR: it lives inside the session, enforcing your policy locally, in real time, without round-trips to the cloud. Whether that session is a Chrome tab, a Slack, or the Copilot pane inside Outlook — the engine is there.
Is this a proxy or Secure Web Gateway?
Neither. Proxies are traffic routers — they see packets, not behavior. Red Access is a Browser EDR: we deliver an agentless, lightweight security engine directly into the web session as it loads — whether that’s a Chrome tab, a Safari window, or an embedded webview inside a desktop app. That means we can see and act on what’s actually happening inside the session — a file being uploaded, a prompt being typed into ChatGPT, a clipboard being pasted into an unapproved tool — not just where the traffic is going.
Unlike proxies, Red Access doesn’t inspect every packet that passes through. Firstly, you get to choose which traffic is in scope (using a simple, real-time, admin panel, and not a rigid file). Secondly, even that selective traffic isn’t fully inspected — instead of reading everything, Red Access delivers the security engine into the session itself. That’s what makes it a Browser EDR, not a proxy.
These differences matter deeply. While a proxy can block a website (and is a massive headache to manage), Red Access can allow the website but block the specific action that creates risk. Or block it to selected groups. And all through a simple admin panel.
IT and security teams using Red Access become enablers of good work, instead of the dreaded “Dr. No” blindly blocking tools or URLs.
Is it just like [SSE / CASB / DLP / RBI / enterprise browser / extension]?
One of those is a real category comparison. The rest are use cases of what we already do.
The honest answer is layered, so let’s split it.
SSE — yes, but lighter, easier to deploy and manage, and with better web-session coverage.
This is the real peer-level comparison and we don’t dodge it. Red Access delivers SSE-grade controls — DLP, web filtering, malware protection, GenAI governance, SaaS access control — through a fundamentally lighter architecture. What we don’t do is ZTNA; we’re not replacing your VPN. What we do do, and what the legacy SSE players have been racing to bolt on through acquisitions, is the session layer itself: prompt-level DLP, extension governance, clipboard and copy/paste controls, embedded webview coverage in Outlook, Slack, Teams,WhatsApp Desktop, and more.
The traditional SSE players cover roughly 90% of the journey. The last mile — what actually happens inside the tab (any tab, even “embedded” ones) — is where they go blind, and where we live. Think of us as the lightweight path to SSE, or as the session-layer extension of an SSE you already own.
CASB, DLP, RBI, browser extensions, enterprise browsers — these aren’t peers. They’re use cases.
Each of those categories is a company built around solving one slice of what session-layer security covers natively. CASB is session visibility into SaaS apps — with Red Access, it’s already there, because we’re inside the session. Same goes for DLP, which is clipboard, upload, prompt, and file controls inside the tab. Again, already there.
RBI is isolating risky web activity — we do it locally in-session, without the latency penalty of remote rendering.
Browser extensions enforce policy from inside the browser, and only the ones they are installed on — ours runs at the session layer, not as a guest in a specific browser, so users can’t disable it. Enterprise browsers create a controlled browsing environment — we deliver the control without forcing your workforce into a new browser.
The cleanest way to think about it: if SSE secures the network journey to the app, Red Access secures the session itself — wherever it opens, whichever browser, whoever’s device. Everything else on that list is something a session-layer architecture does on day one, out of the box.
You said “agentless.” Every vendor says agentless.
Fair skepticism. Here’s what it actually means: nothing is installed on the operating system. No MSI, no persistent plugin, no reboot required. (And, God, no static PAC file.)
Instead, we use a dynamic OS-level configuration — pushed via a single line through your existing MDM, Intune, or GPO — to selectively deliver a lightweight security engine directly into the browser session, in-flight, before the page loads. For your IT team, rollout is measured in minutes, not months.
Also, a main reason vendors abandoned PAC when they moved to the cloud and switched to agents instead is that most authentication mechanisms only work on-network. Red Access solved that differently, using client-side certificates to authenticate sessions off-network — which allows us to operate without an agent. It’s one of our core technologies, and it’s why Follow-Me Security actually works.
Customers who previously struggled with heavy legacy deployments — like Symantec’s SWG — have described the difference as night and day.
Will this slow my users down or break their apps?
This is the question we designed the entire solution around. Legacy security tools cause lag because they backhaul every packet to a remote data center for full inspection before delivering it back to the user. Red Access flips that model by enforcing policy locally, inside the browser tab.
Once our engine loads, decisions happen at the edge — meaning zero ‘type-lag’ and no broken SaaS apps. The decision to redact a credit card number or block a malicious prompt happens in the browser memory, not in a data center 500 miles away. For the user, it’s a native experience; for security, it’s instant enforcement.
Proxies are slow partly by design — they were built as caching tools, not security tools, and the full SSL inspection they perform in the cloud was bolted on later. Red Access was built from scratch for the modern web, including TLS 1.3 and WebSockets, the entire engine is super lightweight, and it never performs the full cloud inspections that break websites and apps.
The fact we have over 450,000 users in production and no open tickets for latency is also pretty telling.
I have a firewall and an EDR. I’m thinking of rolling out SASE. Do I really need Red Access?
You might not. If your current stack can stop a user from pasting their customer’s SSN into ChatGPT in real time, tell you which browser extensions are silently harvesting session cookies across your fleet, and whether your remote users are as protected as your office users — you probably don’t need us. Especially if it’s all done in an agentless way that requires no ongoing tinkering and updating.
Most security leaders we talk to find out they can’t answer those questions. That’s the gap.
Your firewall is excellent at Layer 4 — but it’s blind inside the tab, and it loses visibility entirely the moment a user works remotely. Your EDR owns the device, but it doesn’t live inside the browser session where the work actually happens. And the complexity of rolling out a full SASE/SSE platform is exactly why so many of those projects stall before they deliver value.
Red Access closes that last-mile gap — without replacing anything you’ve already built. It integrates directly with your existing perimeter firewall for office users, and follows the user via OS-level configuration when they’re remote. Same policy, everywhere. We call it Follow-Me Security.
We work alongside Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, Zscaler, Netskope, and Cisco Umbrella — augmenting what you have rather than asking you to rip it out. (Or asking all your employees to switch browsers.)
Not sure if you have a gap? A week of silent monitoring will tell you. Think of it as the lightweight path to SSE — and the fastest way to find out what your stack can’t see.
What does Red Access protect against, in practice?
Red Access is deployed across a range of use cases — each with a dedicated solution:
Safe Browsing & Phishing Protection
block threats before content loads, across every browser and app your users prefer
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
control file uploads and downloads, clipboard actions, and print functions across all web sessions, SaaS, and desktop apps
GenAI Security
block the prompt, not the work: allow ChatGPT and your AI tools, while blocking the specific actions that create risk
Browser Extension Security
full visibility and control over every extension installed across your fleet, including risk scoring, traffic inspection, and supply chain attack prevention
SaaS App Security
enforce consistent policy across every SaaS tool, whether accessed via browser or embedded desktop app
BYOD & Contractor Access
extend governed sessions to unmanaged devices via a simple desktop shortcut, with no VPN or agent required. Our share-link provides a selective governed session so we only see the work you invited them to do; their personal banking and private tabs remain completely invisible to IT.
RBI Alternative
all the session-level visibility of Remote Browser Isolation, without the infrastructure complexity, latency, or cost
AI-Ready Firewall Integration
supercharge your existing firewall with session-layer inspection, no rip-and-replace required
Sounds great. But how do I know what I’m actually missing right now?
That’s the right question — and most security leaders are surprised by the answer.
After a week of silent monitoring, Red Access generates a Tenant Insight Report: a read-out of everything your current stack can see above Layer 4. No configuration changes, no disruption, no agents. Just visibility you didn’t have before.
180+
high-risk browser extensions with permissions to harvest passwords or record sessions — in environments IT considered clean
Dozens
of users actively querying public AI models with PII, API keys, or source code, despite policies that were supposed to block it
70%
of users running browsers with active, unpatched CVEs that EDR will never touch
What typically shows up: an average of 180+ high-risk browser extensions with permissions to harvest passwords or record sessions — in environments IT considered clean. Dozens of users actively querying public AI models with PII, API keys, or source code, despite policies that were supposed to block it. Browser traffic quietly leaking to high-risk geographies through background services and AI wrapper extensions. And 70% of users running browsers with active, unpatched CVEs that EDR will never touch.
This is what we call closing the gap between policy and enforcement. Your existing stack isn’t failing — it’s just blind above the session layer. Red Access makes that layer visible, then gives you the surgical controls to act on what you see.
Most CISOs call it their “holy shit” moment. We call it a work plan.
Who uses Red Access?
Organizations across manufacturing, financial services, retail, legal, healthcare, government, and more use Red Access to standardize browser security across their fleets, with particular focus on protecting work that happens outside the known and owned perimeters.
Red Access turns the browser into a manageable security layer – blocking threats and reducing data exposure without disrupting how employees work, especially protecting laptops and devices outside our facilities.
Eitan Israelov, Director IT and Security, RIMEX
Adding Red Access as another layer of security helped us eliminate risky user behavior – especially around email links and attachments. If your users are not respecting security policies, get Red Access and have your head clear.
Joe Damian, Senior Director IT, Franklin Empire
One sentence. What are you?
With Red Access you can secure your GenAI, SaaS, browsers, and more – basically getting SSE capabilities from inside the session with no agents – so your employees can keep doing the good work, as the bad gets stopped before it starts.
Executive Summary
Session-Layer Protection
Protects the space where work actually happens—inside browser tabs and embedded webview.
In-Session Security Engine
Enforce security policy locally in the browser memory, allowing for surgical actions like blocking a single paste instead of an entire site.
Agentless
Deploy in one afternoon without requiring MSI installers, plugins, reboots, or static PAC files.
Zero-Latency Enforcement
Eliminates “type-lag” and broken apps by making security decisions at the edge.
Follow-Me Security
Uses client-side certificates to maintain security policies for remote users without requiring a VPN.
Silent Risk Discovery
Identify unpatched browser CVEs and high-risk extensions already present in the environment.
Non-Invasive BYOD
Extends governed sessions to contractors and unmanaged devices via a simple link.
Existing Tool Integration
Works with your current stack, can be deployed through your firewall – zero rip and replace.
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