With Island I can set and forget

Gibor went looking for a way to fix these problems and found the Island Enterprise Browser.

The deployment itself took days, not weeks. "We literally packaged it up in our MDM, our mobile device management software, and distributed it to the devices and through user provisioning. Done," Gibor recalled. "And right away I began getting messages from the teams saying, ‘What a game changer, we love it!’"

Island immediately gave Gibor the observability and visibility he’d been missing. “We can respond much quicker now, when incidents arise,” he says, describing, for example, a possible account compromise where an Eftsure staff member clicked on a targeted and sophisticated malicious link. “Between our robust and comprehensive security solution architecture, the account compromise was blocked and remediated, and through Island I was able to actually backtrack what happened with egress and ingress traffic because of the logs that the Island browser gave,” Gibor recalls. “But even more invaluable was the visibility, the ability to quickly grasp what is happening and act as quickly as possible.”

Gibor also values Island’s data loss prevention features: “As a data-driven company, we need the next level of data loss prevention mechanisms in place, but without limiting our users’ ability to do their work. Island makes such a difference in even basic things, like preventing copy-paste outside of the browser, or downloading data. Sure, you can download as much as you want, but only into the dedicated cloud environment that we allow you to. That’s massive because now we can tell our customers, hand on heart, ‘Yes, we have full control over the flow and residency of data, both in transit and at rest.’ and then there's no questions asked thereafter.”

As for financial impact, Gibor says that moving to Island created $200,000-plus in annual savings for Eftsure. “We eliminated the cost of actual compute, but also the cost of resources being spent in maintenance and provisioning and associated infrastructure.”

So easy, even an intern can manage it

“Reducing that operational overhead was a massive win because Island for me is a little bit of a set-and-forget,” Gibor marvels. “Unless I want to specifically go in and do some investigating, there's no need for me to do anything. I trust that it's working, which is unbelievable.”

“I was not expecting Island to be this low maintenance,” he continues. 
“I budgeted the time I thought would be needed to maintain a tool like this,  but I just don't have to, which is amazing. It's so easy that I can just hand it over to my junior or an intern for them to manage and maybe make new policies.”

But perhaps more valuable was achieving compliance by default through Island's data sovereignty capabilities. Island's flexible data hosting options — whether on-premises or in data centers worldwide — gave Eftsure the geographic control needed to meet GDPR and regulatory requirements. "It's like compliance by default, which is amazing,” Gibor says. “Island saves us a huge amount of time in terms of articulating to customers why we are compliant. They just get it."

Saying yes to AI and creativity

Eftsure does not yet enforce a blanket policy around AI usage, but Gibor feels confident that Island keeps shadow AI under control. “Island lets me understand where our risks lie, which I had limited visibility into before,” he says. “For example, the Island browser allows me to see a line a user copied from one location and pasted into ChatGPT, and then copying ChatGPT’s answer and pasting that into a third location,” he says. “I can see that end-to-end data flow.”

“I absolutely feel safer allowing people to be fairly creative with the way that they're using AI because with Island I have parameters in place and visibility into what’s happening.”