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Menlo Security

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Menlo Security's Browser Security Platform secures browser sessions for humans and AI agents with threat prevention, data protection, and zero-trust access.

Summary

Menlo Security is a commercial secure-access platform that provides zero-dayzero-dayA vulnerability for which defenders have had no prior opportunity to apply a fix, often because it was previously unknown. A zero-day exploit takes advantage of that gap. threat prevention, secure access, and data security in one unified platform. It is a service, designed for securing agentic enterprises, and its documentation positions it alongside other zero-trust access solutions. The product was launched in 2013.

Menlo Security's Browser Security Platform secures browser sessions for humans and AI agents with threat prevention, data protection, and zero-trust access.

How Menlo Security helps

Which browsing sessions on this network could be carrying a zero-day exploit?

isolates page rendering away from the endpoint so any malicious code executes remotely instead of on the user's device, stopping delivery before it reaches a browser

Which users are reaching sensitive internal apps from unmanaged or risky devices?

brokers access per session against policy rather than granting a standing network connection, so unapproved devices or locations are denied at the point of request

Which websites are safe to click versus rendered remotely for safety?

evaluates each link and session against categorization and risk signals, rendering only the untrusted ones in isolation rather than blocking or allowing everything uniformly

Are agentic or automated workflows getting the same access scrutiny as human users?

applies the same session-level policy enforcement to non-human access paths, so agent-driven traffic is checked rather than assumed trusted

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Features

3 capabilities

Built from Menlo Security's releases, docs, README and our own runs. “Seen” marks the month we first spotted a release the vendor didn't date. Group names and tags are our labels.

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What Menlo Security offers you

  • SIEM forwarding2
  • Built-in AI assistant1
  • Natural-language query1
All capabilities 3 capabilities
AI agent runtime security (MARS) shipped Inspects AI agent activity in real time to strip prompt injection, sanitize files with CDR, and enforce data loss prevention as agents browse, authenticate, and handle files inside the Menlo Cloud. 2 releases

Also counts toward: SIEM forwarding

release

  • Streams MARS detections into Google Security Operations alongside other Menlo service telemetry. announced · seen Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Menlo Agent Runtime Security (MARS) to apply real-time inspection to AI agents: stripping hidden prompt injection, sanitizing files with Level 3 CDR, and enforcing data loss prevention as agents browse, authenticate, and handle files inside the Menlo Cloud. announced · seen Sep 2026 · source · release history
Google Security Operations integration shipped Streams Menlo service telemetry and detections into Google Security Operations, enabling analyst-approved responses to be automatically enforced by Menlo's control plane for actions such as policy changes, blocklist updates, and session containment. 2 releases

Also counts toward: SIEM forwarding

release

  • Streams MARS detections into Google Security Operations alongside other Menlo service telemetry. announced · seen Sep 2026 · source · release history
  • Integrates Menlo HEAT Shield Agent with Google Security Operations so that detections stream into SecOps playbooks and analyst-approved responses are automatically enforced by Menlo's control plane — supporting policy changes, blocklist updates, session containment, or any action supported by the Menlo… announced · seen Sep 2026 · source · release history
Menlo Orchestrator Agent shipped Provides administrators a conversational interface powered by Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise for forensic investigation and enforcement without requiring use of the traditional Menlo Admin UI. 1 release

Also counts toward: Built-in AI assistant, Natural-language query

release

  • Adds Menlo Orchestrator Agent — included with HEAT Shield Agent and built on Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise — giving administrators a conversational interface for forensic investigation and enforcement without requiring use of the traditional Menlo Admin UI. announced · seen Sep 2026 · source · release history

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Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface

Five scores for Menlo Security, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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Each score is 0–100 on a published rubric, derived from data this site already shows. A dimension we cannot measure says so — it is never scored 0 and never enters a rank.

How this is scored
  • Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
  • Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
  • Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
  • Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
  • Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
  • Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.

Release-note detail over time

See how much detail Menlo Security puts in its release notes, quarter by quarter, and compare it with tracked tools in the same category. This history uses up to ten retained, reviewed notes per tool; sparse or blank older quarters may reflect that limit.

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Releases

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  1. September 20261

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