What is the Managed Browser Service’s channel trust capability?
It’s a robust solution to prevent channel intermediation, i.e. the interception of a malicious agent in the communication channel between user and online service in what is usually known as a ‘man-in-the-middle’ or ‘MITM’ attack. Q: Why is the Managed Browser Service necessary? A: We believe – along with many of the worldʼs leading Internet security experts – that web browser security is broken in a fundamental way. There has been a huge explosion of malicious activity on the Internet exploiting browser vulnerabilities. Symantec detected no less than 1,656,227 different varieties of malware in circulation during 2008 (Source: Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report, April 2009). This malicious activity is growing at an alarming rate: no less than 60% of all malicious code varieties ever found by Symantec were identified in 2008, and there is no reason to suppose that their acceleration is slowing. User vigilance wonʼt fix the problem, browser patches and updates have not, and a
