Guardz taps Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Browser to secure the AI workplace

The modern workplace is increasingly browser-driven. Employees access business applications, communicate with customers, manage documents, and interact with generative AI tools through a single interface. That convenience has also made the browser an attractive target. Attackers use it to steal credentials, hijack sessions, or gain access to sensitive company information.

Traditional security tools can struggle when threats move between email, browsers, identities, and endpoints. Guardz wants to close some of those gaps. It is bringing Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Browser for Business into its Agentic Workspace Security platform.

The integration, first reported by SiliconANGLE, aims to give managed service providers (MSPs) a connected view of threats affecting the small businesses they support. It combines browser protection with broader workspace security.

From Browser Alerts To Unified Incidents

One of the central features of the integration is its ability to connect browser activity with other security signals.

If an employee clicks a phishing link, Prisma Browser for Business can block the malicious page. Guardz can then correlate that event with the original email, Microsoft 365 activity, and endpoint telemetry associated with the same identity. MSPs and Guardz’s 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR) team can use that information. They can investigate the incident across the wider workspace.

This approach reflects Guardz’s focus on identity as the foundation for connecting security information.

“Identity is the new center of gravity in cybersecurity, and the browser has become the primary gateway to the modern workspace. Traditional security tools operate in silos, leaving critical gaps in visibility and response,” said Dor Eisner, CEO and Co-Founder of Guardz.

The integration also introduces practical browser defenses. These include inline machine-learning phishing detection, Advanced URL Filtering, WildFire file analysis, upload and download scanning, and risky extension identification. Together, these capabilities address several ways attackers can exploit browser-based workflows.

Making Browser Protection Practical For MSPs

For MSPs, adding another security product can introduce operational challenges, particularly when it must be deployed across multiple customer environments.

Guardz says its integration simplifies provisioning, setup, and default configuration. That allows MSPs to deploy Prisma Browser for Business within minutes. Early-access feedback from Datawise Networks suggests that the process has been straightforward.

“The rollout through our RMM was super smooth. Within minutes, the Prisma Browser for Business extension was on every Chrome and Edge profile, and it was quick and easy to configure and deploy,” said Kevin Kehoe of Datawise Networks.

The deployment model aims to help MSPs incorporate browser security into services they already provide. Customers do not need to manage a separate and complicated implementation.

Shivam Srivastava, VP Product at Palo Alto Networks, sees the browser as a particularly important part of small business security.

“For most small businesses, the browser is now the office. Working with Guardz brings Prisma Browser for Business into the security these organizations receive from the providers they already trust. It connects our browser protection with the wider coverage and support their MSP delivers, helping safeguard the applications and information employees use every day,” Srivastava said.

AI Security Moves Into Everyday Workflows

Browser protection is becoming even more relevant as employees adopt generative AI services. These tools can improve productivity. They also introduce new questions about data exposure, approved applications, and employee behavior.

Guardz is addressing this through its AI Usage and Control capabilities, which let MSP technicians establish policies for individual clients. Organizations can restrict copying, pasting, uploading, and downloading files on specific websites or categories. That helps manage how company information moves into external services.

The company has also introduced an AI usage report. It gives MSPs a per-client overview of AI tool adoption, based on signals collected across the platform. This gives providers visibility into usage patterns alongside the ability to enforce specific restrictions.

A Shift Toward Agentic Workspace Security

The browser integration is part of a larger strategy at Guardz. The company aims to connect security operations around individual identities and automate more of the investigation process.

“Together with Palo Alto Networks, we’re advancing a new era of identity-centric security operations, connecting signals across identity, browser, email, endpoint, and data into a unified security fabric that is powered by agents. Guardz enables MSPs to autonomously investigate, correlate, and respond to threats across the entire workspace, while giving small businesses the freedom to embrace AI securely and thrive. This is the future of cybersecurity: identity-centric, unified data fabric, and built for autonomous defense at scale,” Eisner added.

The collaboration highlights how the responsibilities of security providers are expanding alongside the technologies businesses use. Protecting endpoints and inboxes remains essential. But organizations also need to account for the applications, identities, and AI services employees access through their browsers.

By integrating Prisma Browser for Business, Guardz is extending its security coverage into that increasingly important part of the workplace. It is also giving MSPs a more connected foundation for protecting small businesses.