Results

The result is visibility and oversight that doesn't slow the business down. Governance lives inside the workflow, not bolted onto it. Engineers use AI freely. Intellectual property stays where it belongs.

The rollout was fast. Speed was a priority, but security was non-negotiable. Silicon Labs leveraged the Island Enterprise Browser to provide 2,500 employees and contractors with access to AI Enterprise in under two weeks. By enforcing security policies directly within the browser, Island eliminated the need for  months of complex back-end configurations, enabling a full migration in a fraction of the traditional timeline. The full migration took under two weeks.

Without Island, Telfeyan estimates the same rollout would have taken his team as long as two months.

Even in high-risk travel scenarios where VPNs are impractical, Silicon Labs turns to Island for secure access that mirrors the in-office experience. "It's a massive leap," Telfeyan says. "Island gives us the ability to extend not just the capabilities of using AI, but also give our entire network access to our internal resources and tools."

Island protects Silicon Labs' AI users and data with security and monitoring capabilities consumer browsers cannot deliver. "Island today is the cornerstone of how we do AI," Telfeyan says.

The security team also gets granular visibility across every AI tool used at Silicon Labs, not just the sanctioned ones. They can see who is using what, and where corporate data is going.

"From my perspective," Telfeyan says, "AI and Island are so closely linked, we wouldn't have one without the other."

Silicon Labs deployed AI in two weeks. The foundation it built is ready for whatever AI comes next.