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Menlo Security offers a cloud-based browser security platform that protects employees and businesses from online threats without triggering constant security alerts. The platform safeguards users wherever they go online, across any browser and device, by preventing phishing and malware from impacting the user’s session. Key products include HEAT Shield, an AI-powered phishing and ransomware protection solution that analyzes deep web sessions to stop new and unseen attacks before they reach a network, and HEATcheck, a vulnerability assessment that shows how evasive attacks could bypass typical defenses. Menlo Labs provides security researchers and tools to help customers secure online communications and stay informed about known and unknown threats. The company’s goal is to enable safe internet use for hybrid enterprises by making threats irrelevant to users and reducing the need for manual alert handling, while offering insights to improve overall security posture.
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Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$260.5M
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2013
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Zero Trust Isolation for federal cybersecurity | Mission First Cyber + Menlo. In its recent fireside chat with Menlo Security, Jason Miller (CEO/founder of Mission First Cyber) and Justin Valdes (Senior Leader at Menlo Security) sat down to talk through one of the most pressing challenges in federal cybersecurity today: how to protect agencies in an era of AI acceleration, rising data leakage risks, and increasingly sophisticated phishing and web-based threats. The conversation quickly revealed a central truth: agencies can no longer rely on detection-based security alone. AI-generated attacks are too fast, too evasive, and too scalable. Zero Trust Isolation is now a critical requirement for federal cybersecurity, enabling agencies to prevent threats before they ever reach users. That's why the Mission First Cyber and Menlo Security partnership focuses on a new security model built on Zero Trust, application isolation, intelligent DLP, and integrator-led deployment that works across federal environments (including DoD, DISA, and those navigating GSA procurement). AI Is Increasing Data Leakage Risk, Zero Trust Isolation Is the Only Reliable Defense AI is amplifying the data-leakage problem across federal mission environments. When users interact with AI tools, upload documents, or paste sensitive information into LLMs, traditional DLP tools struggle to keep up. Menlo's Zero Trust Isolation-first approach provides a fundamentally different level of protection: * All web sessions run in a remote, isolated environment * Sensitive data is kept away from external applications * Malicious links and AI-generated phishing pages are neutralized before reaching users * Agencies can enforce AI usage controls without slowing down the mission This Zero Trust Isolation model is critical as agencies explore AI technologies (gaining traction across DoD and DISA) and require strict isolation and data-flow guardrails. Where Real Threats Are Coming From The nature of browser and email threats have changed. AI is now crafting phishing pages nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. Malicious scripts can be dynamically rewritten to avoid detection. Credential harvesting pages adapt in real time, and weaponized files can be generated on demand. Traditional tools struggle to keep up, but Zero Trust Isolation prevents these attacks entirely by ensuring no risky web content ever executes on the endpoint. The Costs vs. Benefits Conversation Is Changing A major theme of the chat is centered around cost. Agencies want AI-enabled cyber solutions, but they can't take on new risk, new complexity, or ballooning budgets. Isolation architectures, especially those built on Zero Trust Isolation, often reduce long-term program costs: * Fewer incidents | lower operational overhead * Less legacy infrastructure | reduced maintenance * Fewer emergency response engagements | lower contingency spending Through fixed-price models, agencies know exactly where responsibility lies. How VARs Bring Real Value Too often, cyber vendors underestimate the complexity of deploying technology inside federal environments. That's exactly where Mission First Cyber excels. Instead of simply moving product, Missionfirstcyber focus on making solutions operational, aligned to mission requirements, security frameworks, and the realities of federal networks. Its work ensures technologies like Zero Trust Isolation aren't just purchased, but fully integrated, mission-ready, and optimized for the environments they're entering. For Missionfirstcyber, it's never about the transaction. It's about making the solution work where it matters. What Menlo Can Do Today, and What's Coming Next During the conversation, Menlo highlighted its current strengths: * Zero Trust Isolation for all browser activity * URL filtering and inline policy enforcement * AI-driven DLP with contextual controls * Phishing and credential theft prevention * File and application isolation * Real-time threat prevention without relying on signatures Future Advancements * Deeper AI-powered classification and automated policy tuning * Expanded integrations with LLM platforms * Enhanced support for high-security DoD and DISA environments * Broader ecosystem integrations for multi-vendor architectures * More granular controls for agency-specific AI use cases Better Together Menlo Security and Mission First Cyber deliver a fast, low-friction path to Zero Trust Isolation. Simple deployment, seamless integration with existing federal tools, and mission-aligned policy tuning from day one. Together, Missionfirstcyber provide a turnkey Zero Trust Isolation-based security layer that agencies can roll out quickly, even under pressure. The result: stronger protection, reduced operational burden, and a future-ready foundation for AI-driven cyber defense.
Menlo Security has launched the first Browser Security Platform designed to secure AI agents and human employees, raising concerns about non-human actors in enterprise systems. The Mountain View-based company announced the platform following a fiscal year surpassing $140 million in ARR with over 120% net retention. The platform addresses emerging threats from AI agents operating outside traditional security frameworks. It provides "Guardian Runtime" protection, enforcing instruction-data separation to prevent goal hijacking and data exfiltration. Menlo recently partnered with Google to deliver least-privileged remote access via browsers. The company serves over 1,000 global enterprises, protecting eight million users and millions of simultaneous AI agent sessions. The platform will be showcased at RSAC 2026.
Menlo Security takes on AI agent risk with new browser security platform. Browser security company Menlo Security Inc. today announced a new Browser Security Platform that is purpose-built to secure "agentic enterprise," where autonomous artificial intelligence agents increasingly outnumber human employees and the browser has become the operating system for both. The new offering sees Menlo provide a unified control plane to apply machine-speed governance and threat prevention to both human and non-human actors. As enterprises are deploying AI agents to automate complex workflows, the agents often utilize headless browsers or leverage web protocols directly, operating entirely outside the scope of traditional browser security. Menlo argues that threat actors are already exploiting this transition with attacks invisible to the human eye, such as prompt injection via documents and steganography. The Menlo BSP takes the issue head-on by treating humans and agents as equal participants in the workforce, with the new platform providing AI agent security, universal connectivity, deterministic visibility and least-privileged agent access. Menlo AI Agent Security acts as a "Guardian Runtime" for the agentic economy. It enforces instruction-data separation to ensure agents never mistake malicious data for legitimate commands. In addition, universal connectivity translates complex, application programming interface-deficient legacy web user interfaces into sanitized, machine-readable data. Meanwhile, deterministic visibility offers full forensic intel and real-time session-flow views. And finally, least-privileged agent access enforces granular controls via Menlo Secure Application Access to prevent autonomous agents from moving laterally or extracting unauthorized data. The platform moves the security control point directly into the browser session to provide consistent protection and what Menlo calls "Architectural Immunity." That's a state where evasive threats are fundamentally unable to execute because the attack surface is neutralized in the cloud through multimodal visual analysis before reaching an AI reasoning workflow or a human endpoint. By providing a unified trust layer, Menlo says, it eliminates the most sophisticated threats of the agentic age at their point of entry. "AI agents represent a fundamental shift in enterprise computing," said Ramin Farassat, chief product officer at Menlo Security. "For the first time, security teams have a single control plane that applies the same governance policies to an AI agent processing invoices as to the human CFO approving them - at machine speed, with full forensic visibility." Menlo Security has raised $250 million in funding, including rounds of $25 million in June 2015, $40 million in December 2017, $75 million in June 2019 and $100 million in November 2020. Investors in the company include Vista Equity Partners Management, Neuberger Berman Group, General Catalyst Group Management, JPMorgan Chase & Co., American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC Holdings plc, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures LP. Image: siliconangle/ideogram. A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Support its mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. Join theCUBE's Alumni Trust Network, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities. * 15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos, powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more * 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni - Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network. About SiliconANGLE Media SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, uniting breakthrough technology, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios - with flagship locations in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange - SiliconANGLE Media operates at the intersection of media, technology and AI. Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a dynamic ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands that reach 15+ million elite tech professionals. Its new proprietary theCUBE AI Video Cloud is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging theCUBEai.com neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.
Menlo Security has appointed Bill Robbins as CEO, succeeding co-founder Amir Ben-Efraim, who will continue as executive chairman. The transition comes as the browser security company surpassed $140 million in annual recurring revenue for its fiscal year ending January. Robbins joined Menlo as president in 2024, bringing over 30 years of leadership experience from Mandiant, FireEye, Sophos and Symantec. Under his leadership, the company maintained net retention rates above 120% and achieved a net promoter score of 67. The Mountain View-based company protects over eight million daily users globally with its Secure Enterprise Browser solution. Menlo was named 2025 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year and acquired Votiro in 2024 to expand into file and data security. The company is backed by Vista Equity Partners, Neuberger Berman and General Catalyst.
Menlo Security introduced Menlo Secure Storage and Menlo Adaptive Web - two powerful solutions that provide organizations with enhanced control over user activity and sensitive data, ensuring files and web interactions remain isolated from the endpoint.
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Industries
Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$260.5M
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2013
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