How Remote Browser Isolation Works
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Remote Browser Isolation

How Remote Browser Isolation Works

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How
Remote Browser Isolation
Works

Learn how
Remote Browser Isolation
protects your users by offering a secure isolated browsing experience.
Where Can I Use This?
What Do I Need?
  • Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
  • Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama)
Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
protects your managed users through isolation, by ensuring that websites load in a protected air-gapped environment and that no malicious code executes on the browser on their managed devices.
You can safeguard your users' browsing experience by taking the following steps during
Remote Browser Isolation
onboarding:
  • Create isolation profiles that determine what browser actions a user is permitted to take during an isolated browsing session. For example, you can prevent the user from copying, downloading, and printing anything from an isolated website. This way, you can minimize potential data loss when users try to copy, download, or print sensitive data from isolated websites.
  • Create or update a URL access management profile and attach the isolation profile to it. In the URL access management profile, you can set up access control for specific URL website categories that undergo isolation during browsing, and associate an isolation profile that defines the permitted browser actions for websites in those categories.
  • Set up additional Cloud-Delivered Security Services, such as Advanced Threat Prevention, Advanced WildFire, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, and SaaS Security, and apply them to traffic from isolated browsing sessions.
RBI
is available in all
Prisma Access
locations except for the following:
  • South Africa West
  • Sweden
  • Ireland
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Bahrain
Your users can connect to
Prisma Access
using Prisma Access Mobile Users or Prisma Access Remote Networks.

Isolation Browser Behavior

When users on managed devices connect to the
Prisma Access
infrastructure using the Mobile Users or Remote Networks connection method, they can browse a website in isolation if the website belongs to a URL category that you have designated for isolation.
Your managed users on macOS or Windows devices can use the following web browsers for isolated browsing:
  • Google Chrome (on macOS and Windows)
  • Safari (on macOS)
  • Microsoft Edge (on Windows)
URLs shown on the remote browser will look the same as the original URLs, with no prefixes added to the addresses. When a user tries to perform browser actions that you prohibited,
RBI
notifies them with pop-up notifications.
If the user accesses a link on a non-isolated website, the URL of the link is matched against isolation security policies for the connection method (GlobalProtect, Explicit Proxy, or Remote Networks). When there is a policy match, the browser session gets isolated.
When users encounter issues during isolated browsing, they can report the problem from the isolated browser.
You can apply any security profiles on
Prisma Access
to the traffic from
RBI
to the destination websites.

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