Business Chief Europe Magazine February 2021 | Page 155

Menlo Security : shielding business in the cloud

Mike East , VP EMEA of Menlo Security on empowering business through air-tight , automated digital security in the cloud
Mike East , Vice President EMEA at Menlo Security , leverages his considerable 30-plus years ’ experience of the full IT ecosystem to steer businesses through the crucial security aspects of their digital transformation .
Menlo ’ s solution is clear and concise : “ Menlo was born in the cloud and provides users with a 100 % safe email and browsing experience by moving the fetch and execute functions of web browsing away from the network and brought back into the Menlo cloud .”
Web browsing and electronic documents are isolated on Menlo ’ s cloud , instantly tested for malicious content , before being rendered and returned safely to users ’ devices . During a pandemic situation , such capabilities enable organisations to secure employee activity outside the confines of the corporate network , which in turn brings enormous value . By sidestepping the need for a VPN , businesses also often save money and can offer their employees a more seamless experience .
To power its own digital transformation and support hundreds of employees working from home , law firm Howard Kennedy ’ s Head of
Technology and Security , Jonathan Freedman , sought out Menlo .
“ Jonathan was looking to isolate documents and protect its users from weaponised attachments ,” East says . “ Now when lawyers click on that document , essentially the execution of that document is happening in the Menlo cloud . If it ’ s malicious , what we send back is a rendered view , which is completely harmless , on the user device . If it ’ s completely harmless , that also gets rendered back on the user ’ s device .”
As industries accelerate their digital transformation , East says “ the convergence of software defined networks and security is only going to accelerate .” And the Menlo team will be standing by : “ Organisations should spend more time doing what they do , not building infrastructure to support what they do .”
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