About Browser Extension Protection
Browser Extension Protection is Keep Aware's use case for discovering and controlling browser extensions across enterprise fleets. Extensions can request broad permissions, change behavior after updates and create paths for credential theft, tracking or data exposure. Keep Aware positions this offering around giving security teams visibility into installed extensions, assessing their risk and applying controls across supported browsers from the same management layer used for other browser security policies.
What Browser Extension Protection covers
Keep Aware describes visibility into browser extension use across an organization, including the ability to identify extensions, review their permissions and understand their potential risk. The product is intended to help teams find extensions that are unmanaged, unnecessary or too powerful for the business purpose they serve. That matters in environments where employees can add extensions faster than IT teams can review them manually.
How extension risk is handled
The company says security teams can assess extension risk and place controls across browser types. Buyers should verify how the platform scores or categorizes extensions, how quickly it reacts to a newly risky extension, and what actions administrators can take. A useful deployment should make it possible to distinguish approved business extensions from unknown or excessive ones without blocking every extension by default.
Why extension visibility matters
Browser extensions sit close to user sessions, websites and data. Some request access to page content, browsing activity or credentials, which means a compromised or malicious extension can become a serious security problem. Keep Aware's own browser security material treats extensions as a supply-chain and data-loss risk, especially because extension ownership and code can change after the original installation.
What to test before rollout
Security teams should inventory their current extension estate and identify business-critical extensions before applying restrictive policy. A pilot should test discovery, risk reporting, allow and block actions, policy exceptions and alert quality. Teams should also confirm how extension events flow into their SIEM or investigation process and whether the product supports the browsers and deployment tools already used across the organization.
Operational questions to ask
Buyers should ask how often extension metadata and risk signals are refreshed, whether policy can be scoped by user or group, and what happens when an extension changes permissions after an update. It is also useful to understand whether administrators can see historical extension activity, export evidence for investigations, and create exceptions with a clear audit trail. These operational details determine whether extension governance scales beyond an initial inventory exercise.
How it fits with other Keep Aware controls
Browser Extension Protection is one use case inside the Keep Aware Browser Security Platform. It can be evaluated alongside Secure Browsing, Browser DLP, Browser Detection and Response, Gen-AI Monitoring and ChromeOS Security. The shared platform can be useful when an organization wants extension governance to sit beside other browser telemetry and policies instead of operating as an isolated inventory tool.
Who should choose something else
Organizations that only need a basic approved-extension list and already manage every browser tightly through native browser administration may not need a separate extension-security product. Teams seeking malware protection outside the browser still require endpoint controls. Browser Extension Protection is best suited to organizations with a large or changing extension footprint, multiple browser types, or a need for deeper visibility into extension risk and browser activity.
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