Enterprise browsers have moved well past the “secure alternative to Chrome” reputation many IT teams still associate with them. Organizations are wrestling with fragmented browser environments, shadow IT tools like personal password managers, ballooning VDI costs, and a growing need to govern how employees use AI tools at work, often without a clear, centrally managed way to address all of it at once. Island’s Enterprise Browser has emerged as a platform built to solve these problems from the browser itself, and XenTegra has taken that a step further with a managed services offering built specifically around it.
During a recent XenTegra webinar, Director of Modern Workspace Bill Sutton and Senior Director of Service Delivery Trevor Mansell were joined by Island Partner Manager Craig Tony to introduce Managed 360 Island, a managed services program designed to help organizations get more value out of the Island platform over the long term, not just at the point of deployment.
The Challenge Behind “Just Another Browser” Most organizations already have a browser strategy of sorts: whatever browser employees have used for the last fifteen years, layered with whatever security tooling IT has bolted on around it. That approach creates a familiar set of problems:
Island’s answer is to move security and governance into the browser itself, at what the company calls the “presentation layer,” rather than bolting it on afterward.
Rethinking What a Browser Can Do One of the biggest misconceptions Island runs into is the assumption that adopting an enterprise browser means retraining employees on a whole new tool. Because Island is built on the open source Chromium platform, the same one behind Chrome and Edge, the day-to-day experience for end users is virtually identical. Anyone who already knows how to use a browser already knows how to use Island. What’s different is everything built underneath that familiar interface. Since Island sits at the presentation layer, it can act on sensitive data, like credit card or social security numbers, right before it hits the screen. That means redaction, blocking, step-up authentication, and controls over uploads, downloads, printing, and copy/paste can all be enforced automatically, based on policy, without changing how employees actually work. That architecture supports several core use cases:
Island also includes a built-in password manager, giving IT a centralized, managed alternative to the LastPass or Bitwarden installs employees often add on their own without any oversight.
XenTegra Uses What It Sells XenTegra didn’t start with Island as a product; the company adopted it internally first. Initially, Island was a way to provide secure, unmanaged access for contractors and BYOD users without paying for a full VDI-style solution. As XenTegra’s own business became increasingly SaaS-based, it became clear the platform made sense far beyond that original use case. Today, every XenTegra employee, including contractors used for offshoring or offloading customer work, is provisioned automatically through Active Directory policies, giving each person exactly the apps they need inside the Island browser as soon as they authenticate. That covers zero trust secure access today, with DLP rolling out as part of XenTegra’s broader AI governance effort.
Customer Spotlight: An 80% VDI Reduction During the webinar, Bill Sutton walked through a recent engagement with a large construction company that illustrates what this expansion can look like in practice. The customer had a fragmented Chrome environment with no centralized control, was migrating many of its Windows-based applications to SaaS and browser-based tools, and was struggling to run its ERP system through Chrome effectively. It was also carrying a large, expensive VDI environment and dealing with shadow IT password managers installed outside any central governance. The solution was 4,500 licenses of Island Private Access, along with Island’s built-in password manager to replace the ungoverned tools employees had installed on their own. The results included:
As Trevor Mansell noted, very few organizations run 100% VDI or 100% physical endpoints. Island doesn’t have to replace VDI everywhere; it adds a consistent layer of security and management across whatever mix of VDI and endpoints an organization already has.
Why “Managed” Matters Island itself isn’t a complex product to deploy. So why would an organization need a managed service around it? According to Trevor Mansell, the real value isn’t in the initial rollout, it’s in making sure organizations don’t get stuck using Island for only their first use case and then move on. Managed 360 Island pairs customers with a dedicated subject matter expert who spends time every month helping identify and expand additional use cases, rather than letting the platform stall out after its first deployment. The program is built around three phases:
Three Tiers of Support Managed 360 Island is offered in three bundles, each building on the last:
As Bill Sutton put it, this isn’t a “set it and forget it” solution. The monthly use case reviews, ongoing tuning, and dedicated technical resources are what allow customers to keep expanding Island’s value over time, addressing issues quickly and growing use cases to match the full needs of the business from both a security and end-user performance standpoint.
What Organizations Should Expect Across all three tiers, the goals of the partnership stay consistent: faster time to value, expanding use cases beyond the original deployment (in XenTegra’s own case, going from just contractors and BYOD to company-wide adoption), and reducing risk by addressing vulnerabilities at the browser level.
Flexible Ways to Buy Managed 360 Island can be acquired several ways depending on how an organization already works with XenTegra or Island:
XenTegra and Island will work directly with customers to determine which path fits their existing relationships and licensing situation best.
A Partnership Built on User Experience Both XenTegra and Island framed the appeal of this approach around a theme that comes up rarely in security conversations: it’s one of the few solutions where security and IT/networking teams aren’t at odds. Because Island enhances security without slowing down productivity, both sides of the table tend to want it, whether the initial driver is a security use case, a VDI reduction initiative, or general IT modernization. Island has also been evolving its own positioning, from what many still think of as strictly a “secure browser” toward what the company now describes as an agentic enterprise control plane, given how much AI-driven work is increasingly happening inside the browser itself.
Ready to Get More Out of Island? Whether your organization already has an Island investment and wants to expand its use cases, or you’re evaluating an enterprise browser for the first time, XenTegra can help you build a roadmap that fits your environment. Connect with XenTegra to schedule a 30-minute discovery call and find out how Managed 360 Island can help you tailor a proposal, get a quick start, and expand your use cases over time.
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