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viraptor ◴[] No.45126730[source]
It was nice knowing them.

> less than 10% of organizations have adopted a secure browser

Yes Gartner, let's invent a "secure enterprise browser", because there's too much interoperability on the web - there's definitely some business on splitting that up. I'm sure atlassian people love that idea.

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ActionHank ◴[] No.45127246[source]
Remember when most organizations only supported IE for their websites, then in some orgs it later became a requirement for working with legacy webapps.

A secure browser was never a concern.

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1. mrkramer ◴[] No.45128999[source]
>A secure browser was never a concern.

Because majority of malware if not all was written for PCs. Nowadays still most of the malware targets PCs but now attacks targeting web users are more prevalent. Attackers attack through compromised websites or phishing websites using social engineering techniques or exploit kits[0]. Websites are dominant attack surface not web browsers because it is hard to find 0-day exploits and usually they are found and used by state sponsored attackers. Chrome is still the most secure browser because it has enormous market share and everybody is attacking it, both whitehat and blackhat actors so Chrome team is constantly fixing and patching Chrome.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_kit

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2. ActionHank ◴[] No.45138366[source]
I would wager that if you asked corporations which was more important, knowing what their staff are doing online during work hours vs ensuring that their browser is hardened, they would choose to spy on their employees.

My point is this is coded language to give corporations an excuse to have another foothold on their employee's data.