Surface Security launches data-sovereign browser defense for the AI era, helping organizations detect new phishing attacks, protect sensitive data with browser-native DLP, and gain visibility into employee AI usage and security risks. Powered by patent pending Surface Vision technology, Surface analyzes code, network, and visual signals while learning each customer's environment, without forcing a browser replacement or sending sensitive browsing data to a third-party cloud.

AURORA, Colo., June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Surface Security announced the launch of its browser-native security platform, built to identify brand new phishing attacks, highly targeted campaigns, AI-generated threats, risky AI usage, and sensitive data exposure where modern work actually happens: the browser.

As attackers move faster and use AI to create more convincing phishing pages, cloned login flows, and targeted social engineering campaigns, security teams are left defending with tools that often lack visibility into the place these attacks actually unfold. Email gateways continue to let malicious links through, phishing now arrives through more than just email, and endpoint tools cannot reliably understand what a user is seeing, clicking, typing, uploading, or submitting inside a web page.

Surface Security was built to close that gap.

The platform deploys as a lightweight browser extension and is powered by Surface Vision, the company's patent pending technology that analyzes browser activity through code, network, and visual signals. By seeing what the user sees, Surface can detect suspicious login pages, credential harvesting flows, impersonation attempts, and other malicious experiences even when the attack is new, targeted, or built with AI.

Beyond phishing detection, Surface extends browser visibility into data loss prevention, AI usage monitoring, and Shadow AI detection. The platform helps security teams understand when sensitive data may be exposed through browser activity, when employees are using unsanctioned AI tools, and when confidential information could be pasted, uploaded, or submitted into applications outside company control.

Surface also learns an organization's environment as users browse and authenticate to trusted sites. Over time, this allows the platform to understand what is normal for a company, which applications employees use, how those sites should look and behave, and when something appears suspicious or out of place.

"Attackers are no longer just sending obvious phishing emails. They are building convincing, targeted experiences that trick users in the browser," said Grant Smith, Founder and CEO of Surface Security. "Surface was built around a simple idea: if you can see what the user sees and understand the environment they work in, you can catch attacks that other tools were never designed to detect. That same visibility also gives security teams a practical way to control browser data loss, monitor AI usage, and uncover Shadow AI."

Unlike browser security platforms that require organizations to replace their existing browsers, Surface works as an extension. This makes it easier for companies to add advanced enterprise browser security without forcing a disruptive rip and replace rollout across the workforce.

Surface is also designed around data sovereignty. The platform can be deployed on premises or in the customer's own cloud environment, ensuring sensitive browsing telemetry, authentication context, AI usage data, and user activity remain under the organization's control.

"With Surface, we are giving defenders visibility at the point of attack and the point of data movement," Smith said. "The browser is where modern phishing succeeds, where employees interact with AI, and where sensitive data can leave the business. Security teams need technology that understands the full context of what users are seeing, loading, typing, uploading, and trusting."

Surface Security is now available for enterprise pilots and customer deployments.

About Surface Security

Surface Security is building browser-native security technology to help organizations detect phishing attacks, protect sensitive data, monitor AI usage, and maintain control over browser activity. The company's platform uses code, network, and visual analysis to identify threats and risky behavior inside the browser, including new, targeted, and AI-generated phishing attacks. Surface deploys on premises or in the customer's own cloud environment, giving enterprises stronger protection without giving up control of sensitive data.

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