Prisma Browser

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My employer is requiring the use of Prisma Browser to access company resources from a personal device.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/sase/prisma-browser

Can Prisma/my employer see what else is running on my PC when Prisma is running?

On Fedora if that matters.

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Software apps in Linux are sandboxes and unless they have API to other apps on the system, they can’t see or interact with each other. I’m not aware of the Prisma browser but Palo Alto Networks is a security business, we use one of their firewalls. It’s quirky but has cool features. I’ll have to look at that browser.

But the only thing that they can get for your computer should be the browser statistics which includes your os other basic information.

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Apps are not sandboxes unless they’re implemented as such. Otherwise any user process can read /proc/<pid>/comm and list what else is running. They also have access to any location on disk that the user running it does. I wouldn’t call that sandboxed.

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In X11, any program can “see” your desktop if it’s designed to, correct?

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See your desktop and log keypresses. It was pretty trivial to write keyloggers. If Linux running x11 would be nearly as popular as Windows, it’d have been a disaster.

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