Zero Trust for the Browser Era

Secure the browser your firm now runs on.

FirmBrowser protects access to the cloud applications professional and financial firms depend on — hiding passwords from users, controlling device access, protecting browser sessions and governing what leaves the screen.

Identity proves who you are. FirmBrowser governs what happens next.

  • Accounting Firms
  • Legal Firms
  • Wealth & Advisory
  • Financial Services

Built for professional and financial firms that rely on browser-based cloud applications.

Accounting FirmsLegal FirmsWealth & Advisory FirmsFinancial Services
See it in action

Watch how FirmBrowser secures the browser.

A short walkthrough of the controlled access layer your firm's staff use every day.

The Problem

The browser has become the front door to your firm's most sensitive data.

Professional and financial firms now run on cloud accounting systems, tax platforms, payroll tools, client portals, legal practice systems, document management, CRMs, financial planning tools, lending systems, banking platforms and compliance systems. But traditional security often stops at the login screen.

Users know passwords
Password reuse
Password sharing
Saved browser passwords
Unmanaged device access
Compromised endpoint risk
Keylogging
Screen scraping
Copy and paste leakage
Uncontrolled downloads
Untrusted printing
Exported reports
Offshore & contractor access
Limited audit visibility
Unknown SaaS usage
Credential recovery bypass

MFA is important. But MFA alone does not control the browser, the endpoint, the session, or what happens after login.

Credential recovery bypass

Users who do not know an application password may still be able to regain control through forgotten-password and email-reset workflows.

The Numbers

Why browser access needs another layer of control.

Up to 85%

of people reuse passwords across sites.

Source: Bitwarden World Password Day Survey

6%

Only a small fraction of billions of leaked passwords are unique.

Sources: Heimdal Security; Cybernews security research

47%

of companies still permit access from unmanaged devices.

Source: 1Password — Unmanaged devices run rampant

56%

Many organisations report sensitive data exposure through unauthorised SaaS apps.

Sources: Cloud Security Alliance SaaS Security Survey; CSA research

Leading

Credential abuse remains a top attacker entry point.

Sources: Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report; IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index

Product Positioning

A controlled access layer for cloud applications.

FirmBrowser changes the old model. Instead of giving staff usernames, passwords, MFA and open browser access, give them controlled access to the applications they need — without exposing credentials, without blindly trusting the device, and without losing visibility over the session.

Traditional browser access

  • Users know passwords
  • Apps accessed from many devices
  • Limited session visibility
  • Little control after login
  • Copy, print, download & export risks
  • Weak evidence for compliance

FirmBrowser

  • Passwords hidden from users
  • Approved-device access
  • Protected browser session
  • Role-based app access
  • In-app workflow control
  • Copy, print, download & export controls
  • Audit trails and optional session recording
Architecture

See the entire security model

Identity providers prove who the user is. FirmBrowser controls how browser-based apps are accessed, governed and audited.

FirmBrowser for users — one click and you're in. Tap or click to view full size.

Layer 1 — Identity

Who are you?

  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Okta
  • Google Workspace / Google Identity
  • Other SAML / OIDC providers
  • Federated identity services

FirmBrowser is designed to work alongside these identity platforms. Vendor names are shown for architectural context only and do not imply partnership or endorsement.

Authenticated user
Layer 2 — FirmBrowser

How may you access and use this app?

Managed Browser + Secure Access Orchestration Layer

  • Authentication orchestration
  • Password isolation
  • Managed browser
  • URL Rules
  • Element Rules
  • Credential Lockdown
  • Data movement controls
  • Audit & session evidence
Correct authentication path chosen
Layer 3 — Application

What can you actually do once inside?

Path A — Native SSO apps

FirmBrowser hands authentication to your approved identity provider, then continues applying browser and post-login controls.

Path B — Recipe-driven web apps

FirmBrowser executes an authorised App Recipe so the user never needs to know, type or store the credential.

Outcome: a controlled application session — governed, audited and low friction.
One click — multiple authentication paths

Keep your identity platform. Extend what it can control.

FirmBrowser orchestrates different authentication methods depending on the application. For the employee, the experience never changes: click the app, and FirmBrowser takes care of the rest.

One click for the user

The user clicks the app. FirmBrowser determines the correct authentication method and takes care of the rest.

Path A

Native SSO

Where an application supports your organisation's preferred identity provider, FirmBrowser launches the application and lets authentication be handled by that approved platform — Entra ID, Okta, Google Identity or another approved SAML/OIDC provider.

  • Identity stays with your identity platform
  • FirmBrowser continues browser and session controls
  • Post-login policy still applies
Path B

Recipe-driven access

Where an application does not use your preferred SSO mechanism, FirmBrowser can use a secure App Recipe to perform the authorised login workflow on the user's behalf.

  • The user never knows or types the password
  • Nothing to copy, save, share or remember
  • Same controls apply after login

Different authentication technologies underneath. One controlled experience for the user.

Where SSO ends, FirmBrowser begins.

Recipe Books

One secure Recipe Book per user

FirmBrowser centrally governs the cloud applications each user is authorised to access. Every user receives a personalised Recipe Book containing the authorised application definitions and policies their role requires.

Organisation

Central policy and governance

User

Role, group, device and access period

Recipe Book

Authorised applications and their policies

Apps

Each with its own recipe and controls

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Sarah M. — Senior Accountant

Personalised Recipe Book · Approved device required

  • Xero Recipe
  • MYOB Recipe
  • Practice Management Recipe
  • Payroll Recipe
  • Client Portal Recipe
  • Banking Portal Recipe

Each application carries its own recipe and security policy — authentication method, credential reference, login steps, URL Rules, Element Rules, workflow restrictions, data-movement policy and audit requirements.

App Recipes

Every app can have its own security recipe

An App Recipe is far more than a stored username and password.

APP RECIPE = LOGIN + CREDENTIALS + SECURITY POLICY + APP MODIFICATION + AUDIT

Authentication

How the authorised user gets into the application — SSO hand-off or recipe execution.

Credentials

The secure credentials that application requires, referenced rather than revealed.

Login steps

Fields, buttons, navigation and conditional actions needed to authenticate, including MFA workflow where applicable.

URL Rules

Which URLs and form destinations may be changed, redirected or prevented.

Element Rules

Which buttons, menus, settings, links or functions may be hidden or removed.

Workflow rules

Which parts of the application this role is permitted to use.

Credential Lockdown

Controls that prevent a user recovering or resetting a credential outside FirmBrowser.

Audit

The events and policy actions that should be recorded for this application.

Recipe Library

A library of pre-built, verified App Recipes

Browse an expanding library of recipes for the applications firms use every day — pre-built, tested and ready to assign in seconds. If an app isn't in the library, we build a recipe for it.

The FirmBrowser Recipe Library — pre-built, verified and ready to assign. Tap or click to view full size.

Any app your firm uses — if it isn't in the library, we can build a recipe for it.

Application modification

Change what users can do inside the app

Control does not stop when login succeeds. Many security products concentrate on authentication — FirmBrowser keeps applying policy afterwards, modifying the application's browser interface without requiring any change to the application itself.

app.cloudsuite.com — standard access
  • Dashboard
  • Reports
  • Settings
  • Users
  • Admin
  • Export
  • Download
  • Delete
  • Change Password
  • Billing

Every user sees every function the application ships with.

FirmBrowser policy
  • Element Rules
  • URL Rules
  • Role Policy
app.cloudsuite.com — through FirmBrowser
  • Dashboard
  • Reports
  • Approved Workflow
  • Element Rule — Settings, Admin, Users removed
  • URL Rule — password-reset route redirected
  • Export — blocked
  • Password Reset — restricted

Same cloud application. Different permitted experience.

Element Rules

Administrators identify page elements and apply policy to them — hide Settings, remove Administration and User Management, remove “Forgot Password” and Change Password, remove Export, disable Download, remove Print, hide Delete, remove “Switch Organisation”, hide billing controls and restrict sensitive workflows. The user sees only what their role requires.

Element Picker — select an element to create a rule
Dashboard
Reports
Export Selected
HoverSelect elementApply ruleHide / Remove

Rules can be matched against stable identifiers such as element names, accessibility labels, semantic attributes, visible text, testing identifiers, IDs and CSS selectors — evaluated together so rules survive routine application changes.

Point. Click. Control.

URL Rules

URL Rules control where a browser-based application can go. Rules apply to links and form destinations, so FirmBrowser can reshape application navigation from the browser without requiring the SaaS vendor to modify its application.

Application link
/account/password-reset
FirmBrowser URL Rule
BLOCK / REDIRECT
Approved destination
/dashboard
  • Redirect users away from unauthorised areas
  • Enforce approved application paths
  • Redirect legacy URLs
  • Control tenant-specific navigation
  • Block or replace password-reset routes
  • Control sensitive form destinations
  • Keep users inside an approved workflow
Credential Lockdown

Hiding the password is only half the job

A security system can hide a password perfectly, but many SaaS applications still expose “Forgot password” and “Reset password”. If the reset email lands in the employee's inbox, the password-isolation model can be walked around in under a minute.

Without FirmBrowser

  1. Password hidden from the user
  2. User clicks “Forgot password”
  3. Reset email arrives in the user's inbox
  4. User creates a new password
Password isolation defeated

With FirmBrowser Credential Lockdown

  1. Password hidden from the user
  2. Forgot-password UI restricted by Element Rules
  3. Reset URL controlled by URL Rules
  4. Recovery email routed into a controlled workflow
Credential remains governed

Element Rules

Remove or hide Forgot Password, Change Password, account recovery, security settings and unauthorised authentication methods.

URL Rules

Block or redirect known credential-recovery URLs and the forms that submit to them.

Controlled credential rotation

Credentials can be changed through an approved FirmBrowser-controlled process rather than being exposed to users or administrators.

Mail Flow Re-Routing

Where the deployment architecture supports it, password-reset and credential-recovery messages can be diverted away from the user's normal mailbox.

Mail Flow Re-Routing

Close the email reset back door

Many cloud applications use email as a credential-recovery mechanism. FirmBrowser can integrate with enterprise messaging controls so identified reset and recovery messages are diverted into a controlled security workflow instead of simply being handed to the user.

Uncontrolled
SaaS application
Password reset email
User inbox
Reset becomes a user-controlled bypass.
Governed
SaaS application
Password reset email
Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace mail controls
FirmBrowser-controlled recovery workflow
Credential recovery becomes a governed security workflow rather than a user-controlled bypass.

In Microsoft 365 environments this is architected around Exchange Online mail-flow controls, with Microsoft Graph used for automation and orchestration where appropriate. In Google Workspace it uses administrator-controlled Gmail routing mechanisms and the relevant administrative APIs. Availability depends on the deployment model and the controls your organisation enables.

Positioning

More than a password manager

Traditional password managers primarily protect and fill credentials. FirmBrowser goes substantially further, because the browser environment itself is part of the security architecture.

Identity integration
Controlled application access
Password isolation
Automated login
Managed browser security
Application modification
Navigation control
Workflow enforcement
Data-movement control
Credential recovery protection
Audit
Optional session recording

The differentiator is not “we can fill passwords”. It is that FirmBrowser controls the environment in which those credentials and applications are used.

Managed browser

The browser is part of the security boundary

If credentials are going to be supplied automatically to sensitive cloud applications, the browser cannot be treated as an uncontrolled environment. FirmBrowser turns the browser from an unmanaged doorway into a controlled enterprise application-access environment.

Traditional browser

  • Open environment
  • User controls configuration
  • User knows passwords
  • Uncontrolled extensions
  • Limited post-login governance

FirmBrowser

  • Managed environment
  • Enterprise-controlled configuration
  • Passwords isolated from users
  • Extensions centrally controlled
  • Post-login app governance
  • Audit and policy enforcement
  • DevTools disabled
  • Extensions centrally controlled
  • FirmBrowser extension enforced
  • Unauthorised extensions prevented
  • Browser configuration centrally governed
  • Credential viewing prevented
  • Password-manager functionality restricted where required
  • Approved-device policy
  • Protected browser context
  • Policies the user cannot simply change
Capabilities

What FirmBrowser protects

Eight practical controls that together turn the browser into a governed, defensible access layer.

Approved-device access

Helps stop critical cloud applications being accessed from unmanaged, personal or unauthorised devices.

Password isolation

Every cloud application gets a unique, complex password that is never known, typed or reused by the user.

Protected browser sessions

Protects sensitive browser work against screen scraping and keylogging risks where supported by the deployment model.

Role-based app access

Users only see and access the cloud applications they are authorised to use.

Automated login — hours back every week

Users tap in and go — no typing usernames, no hunting passwords, no MFA fumbling. Firms we've seen save over an hour a day for staff who juggle 10+ cloud apps, while removing the daily friction and login fatigue that quietly wears people down.

In-app workflow control

Modify or restrict risky workflows inside browser-based applications after login.

Data movement control

Controls copy, paste, downloads, exports and printing to reduce the risk of data leaving the browser.

Audit, visibility & session recording

Gives owners, partners, IT and compliance teams visibility over app usage, blocked actions and — where required — recorded sessions.

Time back for your people

Effortless logins that give your staff over an hour back — every day.

Professional and financial firms live in ten, twenty, sometimes thirty browser-based apps a day. FirmBrowser's automated login takes users straight into the apps they're approved for — no typed usernames, no remembered passwords, no MFA prompt roulette. In the scenarios we've seen, that adds up to more than an hour saved per user per day, less support-desk noise, and a noticeable drop in the daily friction and fatigue that quietly wears people out.

1+ hr

saved per user, per day (observed)

10+ apps

opened without a single password typed

0 passwords

known, shared or remembered by staff

The New Perimeter

The browser is the new security perimeter.

For many professional and financial firms, the most important applications are no longer installed on the desktop. They are accessed through the browser. That means the browser is now where identity, passwords, client data, documents, reports, workflows and compliance risk meet. FirmBrowser is built around this reality.

secured
Cloud app
Browser session
Device Control
Identity Control
Password Isolation
Protected Session
Workflow Control
Data Movement Control
Audit & Recording
Compliance

Designed to support cyber governance and compliance evidence

FirmBrowser helps firms demonstrate stronger access control, session visibility, password governance, data handling controls and auditability across cloud applications.

Explore Compliance Mapping
NIST CSF 2.0
Essential Eight
Cyber Essentials
CIS Controls
ISO/IEC 27001
SOC 2
APRA CPS 234
GDPR / UK GDPR
Example Scenarios

Real-world access problems FirmBrowser is designed to solve

Illustrative scenarios drawn from common access challenges in professional and financial firms.

Example scenario · Accounting Firm

Offshore bookkeepers need access to tax and accounting apps, but partners do not want them knowing passwords or exporting client data.

FirmBrowser outcome

Role-based access, hidden credentials, controlled browser session, copy/download restrictions and audit logs.

Example scenario · Legal Firm

Temporary staff and paralegals need limited matter-system access, but cannot be allowed into admin settings, bulk exports or uncontrolled downloads.

FirmBrowser outcome

Approved app access, workflow restrictions, session recording where required and evidence for compliance review.

Example scenario · Wealth Advisory

Advisers access financial planning tools, investment platforms and identity documents from multiple locations.

FirmBrowser outcome

Approved-device access, protected browser sessions, password isolation and improved visibility over application usage.

Example scenario · Financial Services

Contractors need short-term access to cloud systems, but the business needs to control what they can access, copy, print or export.

FirmBrowser outcome

Time-bound access, role-based app visibility, data movement control and audit history.

Your identity platform secures the login. FirmBrowser secures the browser experience around it.

Identity providers control who gets in. FirmBrowser controls how the app is accessed and what happens after login — passwords isolated, browser managed, navigation governed, risky functions removed, credential recovery closed and every access event auditable.

Your firm does not need more browser risk. It needs browser control.

FirmBrowser gives professional and financial firms a secure way to access, govern and audit the browser-based cloud applications they depend on.