Businesses are embracing generative AI faster than many security teams can establish consistent policies around its use. Employees can access AI assistants through ordinary browser sessions, upload company documents, paste internal information, and move between external services and corporate applications without necessarily involving their IT departments.
For small businesses, this creates a difficult balancing act. Restricting AI entirely may limit productivity, but allowing unrestricted access can introduce risks involving sensitive information, unauthorized services, and compromised accounts.
Guardz is taking a broader approach to this challenge by combining browser protection, identity security, and AI usage controls through its integration with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Browser for Business. SiliconANGLE first reported on this partnership.
A Partnership Focused On The Modern Workspace
The integration brings Prisma Browser for Business into Guardz’s Agentic Workspace Security platform, extending protection across browser activity alongside email, identity, endpoints, data, and user risk.
The announcement reflects a shift in how organizations must approach the security of everyday business applications. A browser is no longer simply a tool for visiting websites; it is where employees authenticate into corporate systems, exchange files, and interact with external services.
Palo Alto Networks’ browser technology helps address threats within that environment through inline machine-learning phishing detection and Advanced URL Filtering. It also incorporates WildFire file analysis, upload and download scanning, and detection of risky browser extensions.
Guardz connects these browser events with other security signals, helping MSPs investigate incidents across the wider workspace.
“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.
Moving From AI Visibility To Practical Controls
One of the more notable aspects of the integration is its focus on AI usage management.
Guardz’s AI Usage and Control capabilities allow managed service providers (MSPs) to create client-specific policies that restrict copying, pasting, uploading, and downloading files on particular websites or categories. These controls are intended to help businesses manage how information moves between internal environments and external AI services.
The company has also introduced an AI usage report that provides MSPs with a per-client overview of AI tool adoption based on signals collected across its platform.
Together, these features address two different requirements. Businesses need to understand which AI services employees are using, but they also need mechanisms to enforce rules around how company information is handled.
For MSPs, having both capabilities within a broader security platform can make it easier to support customers navigating AI adoption without treating every new application as an entirely separate security project.
Why Browser Protection Still Matters
AI governance is only one part of the security challenge. Attackers can exploit the same browser-based workflows employees use to access AI services and business applications.
A phishing email might direct an employee to a fraudulent login page, creating an opportunity to steal credentials or an active session. Prisma Browser for Business can block the malicious page, while Guardz correlates the event with the original email, related Microsoft 365 activity, and endpoint telemetry.
This connected investigation is supported by Guardz’s 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR) service, helping MSPs understand threats across individual identities.
The company also aims to make the integration straightforward to deploy. Guardz says provisioning, setup, and default configuration have been streamlined so MSPs can introduce browser protection within minutes.
Kevin Kehoe of Datawise Networks, an early-access MSP, said, “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.”
Making Security Accessible To Smaller Organizations
For Palo Alto Networks, the collaboration extends browser protection to small businesses through the MSPs already supporting their technology environments.
“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,” said Shivam Srivastava, VP Product at Palo Alto Networks.
Guardz’s broader strategy is to connect security signals through an identity-centric architecture and use agents to support investigation and response.
“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 relationship between browser security and AI governance is likely to become increasingly important as businesses adopt more browser-based services. By combining Prisma Browser for Business with its existing security and AI usage capabilities, Guardz is positioning its platform to help MSPs address both sides of the challenge: preventing malicious activity and giving organizations greater control over how employees use emerging technologies.