The Browser Defense Playbook: Stopping the Attacks That Start on Your Screen

The report explains how the enterprise browser has become a primary attack surface due to cloud adoption and remote work, detailing common techniques such as phishing, malicious extensions, session hijacking, cross-site scripting, and drive-by downloads, compounded by weak policies and unmanaged personal devices. It recommends extending zero trust to the browser with MFA, least privilege, contextual access controls, continuous session monitoring, strict extension allow-listing, and behavioral analysis of encrypted traffic, and concludes by promoting Prisma Browser integrated with Prisma Access for authenticated, filtered, and malware-protected web access.