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Today Booking.com relies on Island to block end users from performing prohibited actions such as copy/pasting web pages. After the initial rollout, Island blocked tens of thousands of these events, according to Varandas. “Before, we didn’t know if these events were happening or not,” he says. “Now we’re actually making the environment more secure.”
Island DEX has been another winner for Booking.com. In one instance, the Endpoints team used DEX after contractors complained that some company webpages were loading slowly. As discovered with DEX, the culprit was not the website, but instead contractor laptops configured with only half the memory Booking.com required.
Also thanks to Island, Booking.com has simplified its software stack. The company has eliminated not only the VPN, but also unmanaged browsers, antivirus software, and data-loss prevention tools. Those capabilities are all now provided by Island.
“It’s all packaged up in something that’s very, very easy to manage and scale across the entire organization,” Nicholson says. “This is a massive simplification of our tech stack.”
Indeed, other Booking.com groups have learned about Island, and the company now plans to give the Island browser to eight internal teams, as well as to selected third-party contractors.
“Island just works,” Varandas says. “I don't know how I can be more precise than that.”
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