Work no longer stops at the office door, and neither does the risk to your private applications. Today's workforce comprises remote workers, contractors and third-party partners, all of whom demand seamless access to critical private applications from unmanaged devices. This flexibility creates a dangerous blind spot, with 98% of organizations reporting BYOD policy violations that turn unmanaged devices into new vectors for cyberattacks.
For too long, security teams have been stuck with a binary choice: block access and hamper productivity or rely on expensive, clunky VPNs and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions that frustrate users and burden IT. Here is the missing link that transforms the unmanaged edge into a secure workspace: Prisma Browser Connector.
Redefining Secure Access with Prisma Browser Connector
Prisma BrowserTM is a secure browser that ensures safe access to applications while preventing data loss. It revolutionizes security for many use cases, including securing work for contractors, third-party workers and corporate bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. Additionally, it safeguards data during GenAI tool use, safely facilitates onboarding during mergers and acquisitions and reduces reliance on slow and expensive VDI. Many of these use cases also need to be enabled for private applications.
Palo Alto Networks is excited to introduce Prisma Browser Connector, a solution engineered to simplify private application access on unmanaged devices without compromising security. By leveraging their existing Prisma Browser solution, organizations can provide secure, encrypted access to private applications directly through the browser interface, even if they don’t have an existing private app connectivity solution.
This approach radically simplifies connectivity by establishing an automated, secure tunnel for onboarded apps. It creates a digital bridge between the user and the application that is invisible to external threats and effortlessly seamless for the employee.
Powering the Modern Workforce: Private App Access via Prisma Browser
Gone are the days of shipping corporate laptops or forcing users to install invasive agents on personal devices just to grant access. Prisma Browser Connector transforms this outdated approach by establishing an automated secure tunnel directly between the user’s Prisma Browser and the private application in the data center. This is achieved seamlessly by pairing Prisma Browser Connector with ZTNA Connector in your data center or private cloud, with no need to provision certificates or use endpoint agents.
Prisma Browser Connector leverages intelligent orchestration to connect users to the closest cloud region to where ZTNA Connector is deployed. It utilizes the MASQUE protocol, when available, for robust, modern connections, with automatic fall back to Hypertext Transfer Protocol 2 (HTTP/2).
With employees spending about 85% of their workday in the browser, this solution delivers security where work actually happens. Users get seamless access to private apps, and IT gets a scalable way to secure the data center without the headache of invasive agents. Prisma Browser Connector also works for RDP/SSH connections, which are natively supported in the browser.
Future-Proof Your Security with a Seamless Path to SASE
We understand that security strategies evolve. Prisma Browser Connector is built to grow as your organization grows. When your organization is ready to move to a full secure access service edge (SASE) architecture with Prisma Access, the Prisma Browser architecture will allow for frictionless upgrades to Prisma Access.
With Prisma Browser Connector, organizations can finally embrace the reality of the hybrid workforce without compromising on security or control for private applications. If you are looking for a ZTNA Connector solution to work with Prisma Browser, Prisma Browser Connector delivers secure, simple and scalable private app access for everyone.
Ready to see it in action? Schedule a personalized demo today to discover how Prisma Browser Connector can transform your workforce access.