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Browser plug-ins

Browser plug-ins

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Browser plug-ins

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Web browsers serve as the gateway to much of a security professional's work. We use web-based portals to investigate suspicious URLs, read threat intelligence reports, and triage incident tickets. Browser extensions and plugins extend that workflow by injecting intelligence and automation directly into the pages that your teams already use. They turn static content into interactive, security-focused insights that you can act on immediately. AI-powered extensions can automatically highlight indicators of compromise on any web page and enrich them with real-time risk scores. You can hover over a domain in a phishing e-mail and see an embedded widget that shows a maliciousness rating, recent abuse history, and related threat actors. That capability removes tedious copy-and-paste steps and helps you decide in seconds whether a link is safe or requires further investigation. Other extensions bring an AI chat interface into the browser to summarize long threat reports or forum threads on…

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