Browser security company Menlo Security, Inc provides artificial intelligence (AI)-based phishing and ransomware protection that can prevent intrusions on corporate networks and provide comprehensive services to respond to High Adaptive Threat (HEAT) attacks.

The solution is called HEAT Shield and HEAT Visibility as the industry's first prevention suite for detecting and blocking HEAT attacks targeting users via web browsers.

"Our service is a significant leap towards a safer and smoother browsing experience so customers can use the internet comfortably," said Vice President, Product Management of Menlo Security Nick Edwards in a press release, Thursday.

HEAT Shield can detect and block phishing before it enters the corporate network.

This solution uses a new technique based on artificial intelligence which is claimed to be able to detect accurately and in real time whether the link being accessed is a phishing site designed to steal user credentials.

Examples of these techniques include computer vision combined with URL risk assessment and web page element analysis.

Meanwhile, HEAT Visibility performs continuous web traffic analysis and applies classification using AI/ML that identifies HEAT attacks.

This is said to provide timely actionable alerts and enable security teams to respond by significantly reducing the mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) to any threats targeting users.

HEAT Shield and HEAT Visibility were developed using Menlo Security's cloud-based Isolation Core which annually monitors and analyzes more than 400 billion web sessions.

Commonly used security infrastructure such as Secure Web Gateway, firewalls, endpoint security, and EDR solutions are considered incapable of detecting threats that occur in browsers, so they cannot eliminate web-based attacks, including HEAT attacks.

HEAT Shield leverages Isolation Core to enforce dynamic security policies that can be applied to users based on web session behavior and events.

This is intended to prevent perpetrators from accessing endpoints, so that users are protected from potential threats without impacting the user experience.

The HEAT Attack dashboard provides detailed threat information and can be integrated into existing SIEM or SOC platforms. Meanwhile, HEAT alerts sent to SOC teams provide real-time threat visibility to enrich threat information sources and improve and accelerate responses.

Menlo Security isolates more than 4 billion files annually for the largest and most secure organizations worldwide.

Threat actors are refining their techniques and innovating to search for targets via web browsers, then test them against commonly used security services before launching threats.

“Armed with this knowledge and a decade of developing leading browser security products, we deliver the industry's first threat prevention suite designed to detect and block HEAT attacks,” said Edwards.