* [Blog](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog) * [SASE](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/sase/) * Extend Data Protection to... # Extend Data Protection to Thick Desktop Apps With Prisma Browser Beyond [](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paloaltonetworks.com%2Fblog%2Fsase%2Fextend-data-protection-to-thick-desktop-apps-with-prisma-browser-beyond%2F) [](https://twitter.com/share?text=Extend+Data+Protection+to+Thick+Desktop+Apps+With+Prisma+Browser+Beyond&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paloaltonetworks.com%2Fblog%2Fsase%2Fextend-data-protection-to-thick-desktop-apps-with-prisma-browser-beyond%2F) [](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paloaltonetworks.com%2Fblog%2Fsase%2Fextend-data-protection-to-thick-desktop-apps-with-prisma-browser-beyond%2F&title=Extend+Data+Protection+to+Thick+Desktop+Apps+With+Prisma+Browser+Beyond&summary=&source=) [](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com//www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/sase/extend-data-protection-to-thick-desktop-apps-with-prisma-browser-beyond/&ts=markdown) \[\](mailto:?subject=Extend Data Protection to Thick Desktop Apps With Prisma Browser Beyond) Link copied By [Shlomi Akirav](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/author/shlomi-akirav/?ts=markdown "Posts by Shlomi Akirav") Apr 29, 2026 4 minutes The browser is the modern workspace,[where 85% of a worker's day is spent](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/sase/prisma-browser/omdia-state-of-workforce-security?ts=markdown). This makes the browser a critical place to secure the use of web, GenAI and SaaS applications. But what about the other 15% of the worker's day? The rest of that time is spent in thick desktop applications. While more and more applications are becoming browser-first and just as feature-rich as their thick desktop versions, thick desktop apps are still a part of a worker's day that needs to be secured. # **The Use of Thick Desktop Apps Presents Gaps** The secure browser is powerful for protecting corporate data and resources, providing limitless visibility and granular control on user actions in any application. Organizations can uncover all applications being used, reduce shadow AI and SaaS use, and enable granular "last-mile" controls to ensure that sensitive data is not exposed to risky places like personal accounts, public GenAI tools and personal cloud storage. These powerful capabilities that the secure browser delivers historically didn't apply to desktop apps. Desktop applications created a blindspot - a space where the browser's deep visibility and last-mile controls couldn't reach. Today we're closing that gap. # **Secure Data Flows Between the Browser and Thick Desktop Apps with Prisma Browser Beyond** Prisma Browser Beyond, one of the latest improvements of Prisma Browser, extends these same powerful capabilities to desktop applications. The limitless visibility and granular last-mile controls are now applied beyond the browser, eliminating the blindspot that browsers once had and further strengthening your organization's security posture. ## **Gain Full Visibility Into Activity on Desktop Applications** Desktop applications present a major gap in visibility for organizations. Having no ability to see what desktop apps are being used in the organization and how they are used creates major data exposure risks. With Prisma Browser Beyond, you can now see all desktop applications that are being used throughout the organization, get deep visibility into what users are doing within them and see how data flows between the browser and the desktop apps. Instead of playing a guessing game, you can now proactively understand how data-in-use flows across web, SaaS, GenAI and desktop apps---all in one place. ## **Easily Implement Granular Control Over Data Flows While Maintaining Productivity** For many employees, a normal work day involves constantly jumping back and forth between the browser and desktop apps. A smooth, uninterrupted workflow between the browser and desktop apps is a necessity to ensure full frictionless productivity. But a free workflow between the browser and desktop apps increases data exposure risk. Securing data in this workflow can be challenging due to difficulties in setting a unified policy between browser and desktop applications. If not done correctly, users can be blocked from performing legitimate work. Prisma Browser Beyond bridges the divide between the browser and desktop applications by allowing admins to organize all web, SaaS, GenAI, private and desktop applications into groups and define secure boundaries on these groups. Once these boundaries are defined, control of data flows between these groups can be defined with a high level of granularity. For example, the desktop version of Slack and web version of Salesforce can be grouped into a "sanctioned application" group and data is allowed to move freely within this group. But the second data tries to leave this group into groups defined as "restricted", like a USB device or personal cloud storage application, then the movement is blocked. ## **Lower IT Overhead and Deliver a Better Experience With Unified Management** To secure both desktop applications and browser-based applications, you would've needed separate solutions that each had separate management consoles. This created the risk of gaps in security policies and difficulties in accurately defining appropriate data flows across the organization. With Prisma Browser Beyond, you can unify data security across desktop and browser apps from one place. Prisma Browser Beyond only needs a fast installation of a lightweight agent via Prisma Browser with little IT management needed. Once installed, you can define application groups and data flows between these groups across all apps, including web, SaaS, GenAI, private and thick desktop applications. Simplify management and ensure consistent corporate data policies while enabling employees to be fully productive. # **Protect Data Across Browser and Desktop Apps Effortlessly With Prisma Browser Beyond** Prisma Browser Beyond extends the limitless visibility and granular controls that a secure browser provides to thick desktop applications. Strengthen your ability to secure data on all applications across the browser and desktop while enabling employees to continue being full productivity. [Schedule a demo](https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma-access-browser-demo) today to see how Prisma Browser protects sensitive data on any device for any user while enabling full productivity. ### Subscribe to Sase Blogs! Sign up to receive must-read articles, Playbooks of the Week, new feature announcements, and more. ![spinner](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/wp-content/themes/panwblog2023/dist/images/ajax-loader.gif) Sign up Please enter a valid email. 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