The ONLY Secure Browser.

Access the web fearlessly, without risk to your enterprise.


Invincible by design:

Spikes has developed revolutionary technology which makes it safe to use the web. With true hardware separation, Spikes Browser isolates web applications from executing within your enterprise network. With the right recipe of bulletproof security, state-of-the-art performance, and ease of use, we've made the hacker's easiest target one of the hardest targets.

The only effective solution:

Spikes Browser is a remote application, running on an an appliance in the cloud. Instant-launching browsers, true hardware separation, low-latency remote display, secured clipboards, downloads, and printing. A unified experience across devices. Purpose-built for ease of deployment, ease of use, scalability, and security. No more false sense of security.

The Spikes Difference:

Security & Performance, without sacrificing Convenience.

Key Benefits

Use the web fearlessly, as it was intended to be used.




FAQ

What is a Spikes Browser™?

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.

How is Spikes Browser different from a traditional browser?

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.

How is Spikes Browser deployed?

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).

What is Spikes Appliance?

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.

How is Spikes Browser different from a VDI solution (such as Citrix, Microsoft, VMWare)?

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.

How is Spikes Browser more secure than AntiVirus?

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.

How is Spikes Browser more secure than Sandboxing?

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.

How do you enforce the use of Spikes Browser and prevent employees from bypassing its security?

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.

What does Spikes do about XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerabilities?

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.

What about internal websites?

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

What access does Spikes have to our systems and what data does Spikes collect?

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

How can I get more information?

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.

Some words about Spikes:

“The Spikes concept is the only solution I have encountered that effectively addresses the source of the problem.”Daniel DeMattia, Director of Security, SpaceX
“Web security is saturated with solutions which get you almost there. Spikes has overcome the technical challenges which have prevented us from getting all the way there.”Harry Haramis, CEO, C2 Company

Spikes DOWNLOADS

A collection of pertinent downloads to get educated on browser security:

Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report (SIR) vol. 14
Browsers post the greatest threat to enterprise.
Palo Alto Networks Modern Malware Review
94% of undetected malware comes from the web, and remains undetected an average of 20 days
McAfee's Threats report: Fourth Quarter 2012
Malicious URLs are now the primary distribution mechanism for malware (surpassing botnets)

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About Us

We're a US based information security technology company founded by our residing CEO, Branden Spikes— the former CIO of SpaceX and PayPal. Our aim is to counter the false sense of security in the computer security industry by creating uniquely effective security solutions. In our fight against cybercrime we're ambitiously striving to solve one of the world's most pressing problems.


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