- Get real-time visibility into prompts, responses, and AI interactions
- Protect sensitive data before it reaches AI applications
- Monitor browser extensions and reduce extension-based risk
- Discover shadow AI across web applications, browsers, and desktop tools
- Secure managed and unmanaged devices without changing user workflows
- Deploy quickly without proxies, network redesign, or browser replacement
- Govern AI usage with adaptive, context-aware policies
- Apply controls across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari
- Get enterprise browser security with extension management, SaaS identity protection, AI browser control, and more
Secure AI interactions and governance for users and agents
Control prompts, responses, agent actions, and data exchanges across AI, SaaS, web, and desktop applications. Gain real-time visibility and adaptive enforcement of AI interactions without changing browsers, workflows, or network architecture.
Defining the future of workforce security
Akamai Workforce Protector governs how employees engage with AI, SaaS, web, and private applications, as well as enterprise data, at the exact point of interaction — enabling organizations to perform critical security functions that were previously too complex or disruptive to deploy.
How Workforce Protector secures AI interactions
Enable safe AI adoption with visibility, context, and adaptive enforcement. Workforce Protector observes activity where work happens and applies controls directly at the point of interaction.
Built for the last mile of AI interactions
Apply the right control at the right interaction point. Workforce Protector combines browser-native protection, desktop visibility, centralized policy management, and cloud intelligence to secure how users and AI agents work.
Features
Common AI security use cases
Secure interaction channels where users and AI agents work. Workforce Protector applies the right controls at the right point to govern AI usage, protect data, and reduce risk.
Browser-based interactions
Secure AI, SaaS, private applications, and web activity at the point of interaction.
Use the Akamai Workforce Protector Browser Extension to secure:
- AI applications and copilots
- Agentic browsers and AI assistants
- SaaS and web applications
- Browser extensions
- DLP: Text input, copy/paste, uploads, downloads, and data exchanges
Gain real-time visibility and adaptive enforcement where most AI and SaaS interactions occur.
Rapid deployment
Accelerate time to value without infrastructure changes.
Deploy Workforce Protector without:
- Network redesigns
- Proxy deployments
- Browser replacement projects
- Complex traffic routing
Secure AI interactions quickly while preserving the native user experience.
Easy integration
Secure AI interactions using your existing architecture.
Easily integrate with:
- IAM and identity providers
- SIEM platforms
- File-labeling solutions
- Ticketing systems
- MDM platforms
Add visibility and control to AI interactions while leveraging existing workflows and investments.
Secure Enterprise Browser
Akamai Workforce Protector delivers secure enterprise browser capabilities as a lightweight extension. It monitors and enforces policy on every user and AI agent action in the browser, including agentic browsers such as ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, and Dia.
Why SASE, proxy, and endpoint security miss AI interactions
| Approach | What it secures well | What it misses | Why Workforce Protector is different |
|---|---|---|---|
| SASE/SSE | Network traffic, application access, and connectivity | Prompts, user actions, AI interactions, and in-session data exchanges | Workforce Protector secures the interaction itself, not just the connection to the application |
| Local Proxy | Routed traffic inspection and policy enforcement | Full interaction context and user experience simplicity | Workforce Protector applies controls directly at the interaction layer without traffic redirection or impact on performance |
| Endpoint DLP/EDR/XDR | Files, processes, devices, and endpoint activity | File-less actions such as prompts, text input, copy/paste, and AI usage | Workforce Protector enforces corporate governance on how users and AI interact within applications |
Ecosystem and technology partnerships
Akamai Workforce Protector integrates natively across leading cloud, workplace, and hardware ecosystems to deliver end-to-end browser threat protection and data loss prevention (DLP).
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
SSE solutions secure access and network traffic. Workforce Protector helps secure the point of interaction, where users and AI agents exchange data, enter prompts, and perform actions inside applications.
Many AI security solutions focus on AI traffic or model interactions. Workforce Protector helps secure the AI, SaaS, and web interactions, providing visibility and control across prompts, responses, user actions, applications, browsers, and AI agents.
Endpoint DLP typically focuses on files and traffic. Workforce Protector secures interactions in context, including file-based and file-less activity such as text input, copy/paste, and AI usage.
Workforce Protector is designed to preserve the native user experience while applying monitoring, detection, blocking, and governance controls at the last mile.
Workforce Protector does not require network or architecture changes. It is deployed based on the interaction channel being protected.
Yes. Workforce Protector is designed to work alongside existing IAM/IdP, access management, SIEM, file-labeling, ticketing, and MDM systems.
A secure enterprise browser is a security control that sits inside the browser, where most work now happens, to give security teams visibility into and control over user activity in AI, SaaS, and web applications. The category includes both purpose-built browsers that replace the user’s existing browser and extension-based approaches that add enforcement to the browsers already in use.
Workforce Protector delivers the same last-mile visibility and enforcement without asking users to switch browsers. It installs as an extension on the browsers your organization already runs, so there is no migration, no retraining, and no set of users who quietly keep working in their old browser. That difference usually shows up as broader coverage in practice, because adoption is not the limiting factor.
All common browsers, including Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with deployment on iOS and Android. It also supports agentic AI browsers such as ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, and Dia, and PWA-enabled desktop applications including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Slack, Teams, and VS Code.
Yes. Workforce Protector deploys on both managed and unmanaged devices without installing hardware or software or changing network architecture, which makes it practical for contractors, third parties, and employees on personal devices.
Anti-tampering controls operate at the browser, page, and file-system level to prevent users from disabling the extension, and coverage extends to private and incognito browsing so enforcement does not lapse.
No. Workforce Protector preserves the browser’s native experience. It introduces no traffic rerouting and no proxy, so it adds no latency to user sessions.
Yes. Workforce Protector detects agentic activity, distinguishes it from user activity, controls the AI side panel, and provides visibility into conversations with browser agents, so an autonomous agent acting in the browser is governed by the same policies as a person.
No. It covers the layer those tools cannot see. A gateway inspects traffic and a CASB inspects sanctioned application activity through APIs; neither observes what a user typed into a prompt, which identity authenticated, or which extension reads the page. Workforce Protector complements those controls rather than replacing them.
Secure interactions for AI and SaaS
Get a free demo to see how Workforce Protector helps security teams:
- Discover shadow AI and unmanaged usage
- Prevent sensitive data exposure
- Govern AI interactions in real time
- Protect users across browsers and devices
- Accelerate AI adoption with confidence
Schedule your demo in two easy steps:
- Submit the form
- Book a time with our team