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BROWSER AI SECURITY

Control risky AI browser extensions

An employee adds an AI extension to save time. Your team inherits the risk to company pages, sign-in sessions, and AI conversations. Identra Guard discovers installed extensions and lets you disable risky ones by policy.

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Risky browser extensionsCOVERED
  1. Know what is installed01
  2. Prioritize extension reviews02
  3. Spot session access risk03
  4. Disable risky extensions04
  5. Put browser risk in context05
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01What goes wrong today

The risk is already in use.

What security teams run into with risky browser extensions today, before a control is in place.

  • 01

    Installed before security reviews

    An employee installs an AI assistant to summarize pages. Security has to assess the extension after it is already in use.

  • 02

    Company data within reach

    Depending on their permissions, extensions can read company pages and AI conversations. A convenient feature can bring sensitive work within reach.

  • 03

    Sign-in sessions exposed

    Some extensions can read sign-in sessions. Reviewing which AI apps employees use does not settle whether their browser extensions put access at risk.

02What Identra does

What changes with Identra.

Covered by Identra Guard in the browser, tied to one identity and one timeline.

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  • 01

    Know what is installed

    Identra Guard discovers installed browser extensions. Give security a clear starting point for reviewing the extensions employees bring into work.

  • 02

    Prioritize extension reviews

    Identra Guard gives each installed extension a trust assessment. Extensions that need a closer look are flagged, and risky ones go on a watch list.

  • 03

    Spot session access risk

    Identra flags extensions that read sign-in sessions. Bring that exposure into your review of browser extension risk.

  • 04

    Disable risky extensions

    Disable risky extensions by policy with Identra Guard. Turn a security decision into an enforced browser control.

  • 05

    Put browser risk in context

    Connect browser activity to the person and a shared identity timeline, where the person is known. Review browser risk alongside endpoint and provider activity.

03Before and after

An AI page summarizer needs review

The same moment, played twice. Once without Identra, once with it.

WITHOUT IDENTRA

EXPOSED

  1. An employee installs an AI extension to summarize work pages.

  2. The extension has access to sensitive pages and can read sign-in sessions.

  3. Security learns about the extension during a manual review.

  4. The team asks the employee to remove it.

WITH IDENTRA

CONTAINED

  1. Identra Guard discovers the installed extension.

  2. Security reviews its trust assessment and the flag for reading sign-in sessions.

  3. The team sets a policy to disable the risky extension.

  4. Identra Guard disables the extension in the employee’s browser under that policy.

04How it works

Three steps. One timeline.

  1. 01

    See

    Discover installed browser extensions alongside the AI apps and accounts people use.

  2. 02

    Decide

    Use trust assessments and flagged session access to prioritize review and policy decisions.

  3. 03

    Enforce

    Disable risky extensions by policy through Identra Guard.

QUESTIONS

What buyers ask us about risky browser extensions.

How is browser extension control deployed?

Identra Guard is a browser extension that discovers installed extensions and can disable risky ones by policy.

Do we have to block every AI extension?

No. You decide which extensions to disable by policy. Discovery and trust assessments help your team decide which extensions need action.

Does prompt protection send employee prompts off the device?

Prompt content stays on the device by default. Prompts are checked on the device before they are sent.

Does disabling an extension revoke its OAuth access?

They are separate controls. Identra Guard disables the extension in the browser. Identra’s provider integrations collect OAuth grants with the app, permissions and grantor, and an analyst can revoke risky grants. Review both as part of OAuth app risk.

How are desktop AI plugins covered?

Identra Guard covers browser extensions. The separate Identra endpoint agent for macOS and Windows discovers desktop AI apps, coding agents, MCP servers, skills, plugins, and IDE and desktop-app extensions.

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