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Island

Island is an enterprise browser, built on Chromium, with numerous built-in capabilities for protecting against user-, data-, and network-based threats.

Use Cases the Adapter Solves (optional)

  • Detecting Unmanaged Assets: Identify devices running the Island browser that are not currently accounted for in your inventory.
  • Analyzing Access and Usage: Gain visibility into user activity and installed extensions to ensure compliance with corporate security policies.
  • Verifying Security Coverage: Confirm that the Island enterprise browser is correctly deployed across the organization's user base.

Asset Types Fetched

Devices | Users | SaaS Applications


Before You Begin

Ports

  • TCP port 443

Authentication Method Verify

APIs

Axonius uses the Island API Version 1.

Permissions

The following permissions are required: Verify

Supported From Version

Supported from Axonius version 4.6

Setting Up Island to Work with Axonius

Verify


Connecting the Adapter in Axonius

Navigate to the Adapters page, search for Island, and click on the adapter tile.
Click Add Connection.

To connect the adapter in Axonius, provide the following parameters:

Required Parameters

  1. Host Name or IP Address - The hostname or IP address of the Island server. (default: https://management.island.io)
  2. Token - An API Key associated with a user account that has permissions to fetch assets.
  3. Connection Label - A label to help you distinguish between multiple connections for the same adapter. See Connection label.
Island connection screen

Optional Parameters

  1. Verify SSL - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
  2. HTTPS Proxy - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.
  3. HTTPS Proxy User Name - The user name to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.
  4. HTTPS Proxy Password - The password to use when connecting to the server using the HTTPS Proxy.

  5. Select Gateway – Select the Axonius Gateway to use when connecting adapters whose sources are only accessible by an internal network and not from the primary Axonius instance, which may be an Axonius-hosted (SaaS) instance or Customer-hosted (on-premises / private cloud). To use this option, you need to set up an Axonius Gateway.


To learn more about common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.


Advanced Settings

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Note:

Advanced settings can either apply to all connections for this adapter, or to a specific connection. Refer to Advanced Configuration for Adapters.

To learn more about Adapter Configuration tab advanced settings, see Adapter Advanced Settings.


  1. Fetch timeline events - Select this option to fetch timeline events.
  2. Fetch users - By default this adapter fetches users. Clear this option to not fetch users.
  3. Fetch installed extensions - Select this option to enrich devices with installed extensions.

Related Enforcement Actions

Verify

Updated 8 days ago