Generative AI adoption is accelerating across enterprises. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI applications are reshaping productivity, but they also introduce new categories of risk. At the same time, phishing campaigns are more convincing than ever, malware increasingly hides behind trusted domains, and employees rely on consumer browsers to access the applications that power modern work. Security teams are caught in the middle: enable innovation or block risk.

Island Safe Browsing and AI Protection eliminates that tradeoff.

Delivered through the lightweight Island Extension, the solution runs policy locally inside users’ existing browsers—no proxy backhaul, no break-and-inspect bottlenecks, and no complex infrastructure changes. Protection happens exactly where work occurs: inside the browser session, at the moment of interaction.

What is Island

Island is the modern enterprise workspace, where everything the user needs to do their job is at their fingertips, and everything the administrator needs to ensure policies are enforced and resources are protected is built in. For the user, this means they are given easy, quick access to work applications and have the safeguards necessary to try new things and adopt new tools. Meanwhile, Island ensures phishing attacks, malicious websites, and browser-based attacks are blocked, and corporate data cannot be moved outside of approved apps and locations. Island does so using last mile controls, which govern user actions, such as copying and pasting, file uploads and downloads, printing, file movements on the endpoint, and more.

The Island browser extension allows organizations to transform any browser into one built for the enterprise. It is a lightweight extension that fully integrates with your existing identity provider, allowing you to enforce context-aware policies, protect users as they are browsing the Internet, and enable secure AI adoption. The Island extension supports Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and most Chromium-based browsers.

Simplify procurement and unify operations with AWS Security Hub

To respond quickly to emerging threats and reduce operational complexity, organizations are deploying unified security solutions with the AWS Security Hub Extended plan and Island. Security Hub delivers a curated suite of best-in-class security solutions directly through AWS with one contract, one bill, and unified operations. On average, Security Hub delivers:

• 40% reduction in security vendor management overhead
• Unified Visibility with OCSF-compliant findings
• 60 Day Deployment vs 6-12 months
• Single Contract with unified AWS billing

With an experienced AWS Security Hub Partner like Island, businesses can anticipate challenges and accelerate the cloud journey to achieve benefits faster.

Simplified Procurement

Vendor negotiations and procurement cycles can get in the way of acquiring new security tools. The Security Hub Extended plan streamlines purchasing Island through a single AWS contract, consolidated billing, and unified support. The result is stronger protection where work actually happens, simplified vendor management, flexible pricing, and security that scales seamlessly with your AWS environment. Ultimately, this allows you to circumvent procurement challenges and deploy enterprise-grade security in weeks instead of months.

Unified Security Operations

Security teams are often inundated with alert noise. To help organizations reduce noise and understand important security events, AWS Security Hub identifies critical security issues by correlating and enriching signals into actionable insights. 

Island controls the last mile, the point at which the user interacts with applications, giving it a critical position to see more activity and understand the context around user actions. It uses this information, along with device attributes and state, user information, policy configuration, and more to generate actionable insights you can use to improve your security posture and make your organization safer.

Island is now integrated with AWS Security Hub, enabling it to dispatch these OCSF-compliant insights to the Security Hub dashboard. This allows security teams to see and understand more, across tools, without leaving the tools they are used to.

Say “Yes” to Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and specialized AI platforms offer transformative potential for employee productivity and efficiency. However, the risk of inadvertently sharing sensitive data with unapproved AI platforms has caused many enterprises to block AI tools entirely.

Instead of preventing employees from pursuing AI’s potential productivity gains, Island AI Protection solves this dilemma by allowing organizations to embrace AI innovation while maintaining organization-defined protections, policies, and compliance. Companies can choose which AI platforms are approved for use with company data (while allowing others to be used with non-sensitive data), automatically prevent sensitive data from being shared with unapproved AI tools, and maintain comprehensive audit trails of all AI interactions.

Island gives you:

• Centralized visibility and governance of AI tool usage across the organization. 
• Data protection policies that prevent sensitive data from being shared with unapproved AI platforms. 
• Graceful redirection from unsanctioned to approved AI tools. 
• Complete audit trails for compliance and training. 

Secure Browsing without the overhead

The shift to SaaS and web applications means critical data and workflows often move through consumer browsers that offer very little in terms of security and data controls. Instead, traditional web security solutions rely on routing traffic through distant proxies, decrypting sessions, and blocking services. This approach adds latency, breaks SaaS applications, and still leaves blind spots inside the browser.

With Island, browsers are transformed into a secure-by-design solution where critical data is protected. Organizations have a closed-loop system where security and access policies can be implemented across any SaaS or web app. Data remains fundamentally secure, without relying on complex network controls, app-specific APIs, or inefficient solutions outside the browser.

As users navigate the Internet, they are protected with numerous techniques used to detect and mitigate web-based threats, such as phishing attempts, man-in-the-middle attacks, malware, and compromised credentials. When Island detects a risky website, users are prevented from inputting company credentials into fields and the site is cut off from sensitive browser APIs, effectively isolating it from sensitive resources.

With Island Safe Browsing, organizations gain:

• Inline URL categorization and reputation-based controls
  
• Real-time malware inspection before downloads execute
  
• Advanced anti-phishing protection with lookalike domain detection and credential form safeguards

Instead of merely blocking destinations, Island protects the interaction itself, stopping credential theft, malicious downloads, and session-based attacks directly within the browser environment.

Ready to learn more?

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