Island, the platform for enterprise work, launched a fundamentally new SASE architecture powered by the Perfect Packet, designed for a world where AI agents, remote workers, and local tools have replaced the office as the center of how work gets done.
The result: up to 90% of sessions go direct with no backhaul. Deployment in as few as five minutes to managed and unmanaged devices. Up to 10x faster application access when traffic takes the direct path. And zero SSL/TLS break-and-inspect required for browser traffic.
Designed alongside and deployed in production with Fortune 500 customers from day one, Island is now bringing it to the broader market. Work changed. SASE didn’t, until now.
Work no longer flows through the corporate network. People work from everywhere, asynchronously, across SaaS apps and AI tools. AI agents now call local and remote tools and MCPs on behalf of users and organizations. SASE was designed to securely connect users and offices to apps and networks. In the near future, an organization’s agent workforce will operate using employees’ roles and access but at 100x the scale. Networking patterns have fundamentally shifted.
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Traditional SASE was built for a different era. It routes traffic through distant cloud proxies, decrypts and re-encrypts sessions, and applies policy in transit. That model is expensive, outage-prone, and forces long rollouts that seldom deliver on core objectives at scale. Organizations end up limiting how they work to accommodate the limitations of the design. Worse, the architecture cannot see what’s happening inside an AI session, an agent workflow, or a browser tab. It inspects connections. It cannot interpret intent.
The Perfect Packet: Security at the true edge
Island’s Perfect Packet architecture moves enforcement to where work actually happens. Traffic is analyzed, inspected, and secured at the most appropriate location: at the user experience layer inside the workstation, or, when needed, at hundreds of nearby points of presence (PoPs) deployed across the premium networks of GCP, Azure, and AWS.
The Island Enterprise Platform, spanning the Island Enterprise Browser, Island Extension, and Island Desktop, evaluates identity, device posture, geolocation, application context, and user activity at the moment of interaction. Most traffic flows directly. Island only steers traffic into its global network when inspection or routing services truly add value. Backhaul becomes the fallback, not the default.
Built for AI and agents
AI didn’t create new risks. It exposed the limits of network-based enforcement. Prompts, uploads, tool calls, and AI-generated output all occur at the point of intent, not in transit. Network inspection sees connections. It cannot see clipboard actions, tenant context, prompt content, or file transfers between apps.
Island governs AI at the point of intent, with full user, device, and session context. Organizations enable AI without exposing sensitive data or losing control of what happens next. No binary block decisions that push users toward shadow AI. Every AI session carries a full audit trail, including which data types were sent, to which applications, by which users, across both human and agentic workflows.
“If your SASE can’t see what’s happening inside an AI session, you’re not governing AI. You’re guessing,” said Dan Amiga, Island’s CTO and Co-founder. “We built the Perfect Packet network because the old model of backhauling everything through a proxy adds blind spots and cost. When you protect data before it moves and evaluate policy in real time, security runs at the speed of work.”
SOURCE: Businesswire