Spikes Browser is the only secure web browser. We have developed remote application technology which makes it safe to use the web, by running browsers on appliance-based cloud VMs. Our users have complete fearlessness of web malware, without the loss of performance and functionality typical of security products today.

Spikes Browsers are virtualized on remote systems with true hardware separation, hardened, and actively defended, so when malware strikes, your computer remains untouched. On any computer or mobile device, this approach protects against all sorts of threats, even the unknown and undetected.

Spikes Browser is a client/server application. The client is lightweight and easy to deploy automatically, and requires no prerequisite packages. The server runs on hardened, high performance hypervisor hardware called Spikes Appliances. These Spikes Appliances can be deployed on your network (private cloud), on our network (public cloud), or a combination of the two (hybrid cloud).

Spikes Appliance is a purpose-built, high performance server offered by Spikes to provide an optimal hardware platform to run Spikes Browsers. They come in various sizes and configurations, can scale linearly, automatically failover and balance load, and provide the maximum performance per dollar to meet the necessary deployment requirements of IT departments.

While VDI offers IT organizations a centralized, efficient, and easily maintained way of scaling operations and responding quickly to the changing needs of their business, VDI is not purpose built to solve security. As a result, VDI browsers are not more secure, and still suffer many of the same risks of traditional native browsing. In VDI environments, we recommend deploying Spikes Browsers in the VDI farm to add the necessary security for its users.

Some other key advantages of Spikes Browser vs VDI:

• Spikes Browser sessions launch instantly.
• Spikes Browser requires far less complexity to deploy and manage.
• Spikes Browser offers unparalleled audio/video performance and the lowest user interface latency.

Furthermore, Spikes Browser complements VDI environments nicely by reducing the load on your VDI environment. Every Spikes Browser is one less VDI browser, providing potentially huge savings and greater scalability for your VDI.

Virus scanners protect against known viruses, and known virus behaviors, but don’t protect against new viruses and behaviors that aren’t known yet. Recent studies suggest that over 10,000 new malware programs are written every day, and that it takes an average of 20 days to discover malware infections.

Though Spikes Browser is vastly superior protection against browser threats, we still recommend AntiVirus scanning on devices where files can potentially make their way to your PC through other means (USB thumbdrives, email attachments, etc.).

Note: All files downloaded through Spikes Browser are scanned by our integrated AntiVirus engine.

Sandboxes are intrinsically unsafe, perpetuate a false sense of security, and get hacked all the time. We refer to them as litterboxes.

With Sandboxing you’re relying on a single piece of software to stand between you and malware infection. If that software fails or has flaws, attackers can get right in. When there is no hardware separation from the malicious software and the shared physical memory, exploits can provide elevated privileges, code execution, and direct access to your sensitive information.

In the recent Pwn2Own hacking competition in March 2013, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome all got hacked on the first day. Chrome’s sandbox was fully breached. Computers running Java are extremely vulnerable to local web browsing and sandboxes provide no protection against Java exploits.

For the maximum degree of security, we recommend configuring your network to block direct access to the web for user devices. If only Spikes Browsers can be used to surf the web, all potential browser threats become mitigated.

It is a common misconception that XSS vulnerabilities are a browser vulnerability, so it is the website developers charged with the sole responsibility for preventing XSS exploits from circumventing their website security measures. That said, Spikes Browser does provide countermeasures such as those provided by traditional browsers. For example, by preventing cookies from being accessed by websites that did not issue them.

No problem, Spikes Browsers can be configured to allow easy access to your trusted websites through the traditional browsers by policy.

Spikes does not have backdoors into your network or devices, does not collect any sensitive information, and provides maximum privacy.

Our engineers are improving things faster than our writers can update this website, so for the latest information, and a really excellent conversation with cool people, please contact sales@spikes.com.