Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a multimode cloud access security broker.	N/A

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
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	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps was chosen primarily due to its ability to work perfectly within our mostly M365 environment. Given that this was an added feature of our E5 license, we chose to dive into it and use it due to it's good visibility into user actions and the … Incentivized Helpful? Daisy Cooper Restaurant Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps acts as an additional security layer for all SaaS applications our organizations uses to do business and helps providing detailed information about this Apps that we normally use across the entire organizations on a single dashboard, enabling … Incentivized Helpful? Brian Coyne Senior Microsoft Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps We did not evaluate other tools, as our main driver was Defender ATP and MCAS came included Incentivized Helpful? Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps More flexible and more features with easy integration with cloud services like Microsoft Azure and other cloud services. Overall both gives similar features but we prefer Microsoft cloud app security due to its high threat detection rate. mostly we have been able to stop the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps We had a past experience with Microsoft ATA, one of the engines that Cloud App Security now uses to provide insights on internal threats, Microsoft ATA was discontinued and all of its features became part of the Microsoft Defender suite, surely, Cloud App Security and the … Incentivized Helpful? CJ Cara Jay Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Microsoft Cloud App Security is more professional than Google 360. It helped organize documents better and staff [was] more willing to integrate it into their daily routines. Microsoft offered more options for organizations and it made more sense the way their application was … Incentivized Helpful? Sai karthik Satyavarapu Senior Technical Specialist Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps pricing and flexibility and implementation is quite easy compared to other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps I would go for MS because we leverage Azure in our organization and that helps. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Program Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps MCAS works well for our particular needs in the DLP, Data Protection, cloud discovery and Threat Detection spaces; most of these tools can accomplish the same tasks and also do enforcements with a forward proxy solution - MCAS does not offer that and if you need it you will … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Detect threats Pro Integrates with microsoft Pro Microsoft tools
Top Cons	Minus Cloud app Minus Saas apps Minus Easy to monitor

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (10 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft It is well suited if your team is working with Microsoft tools and Azure services. but if you are using other cloud service providers and don't want to spend efforts in learning integration with third-party software then this is not a great fit for you. overall we are very satisfied with the product. If your corporation with Microsoft tools then I would recommend it. Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Detect threats based on user activity logs. Set manual and automatic alert remediation. Implement activity policies. Detect threats based on user activity logs. Incentivized Sai karthik Satyavarapu Senior Technical Specialist Read full review
Cons	Microsoft In the event of Cloud traffic it is not easy to monitor and identify attacks. Difficult to protect unmatched Cloud devices. Incentivized Daisy Cooper Restaurant Manager Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft I have not utilized actual support but the Sales and Product teams have been super helpful in moving our implementation forward and showing us the best practices. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps was chosen primarily due to its ability to work perfectly within our mostly M365 environment. Given that this was an added feature of our E5 license, we chose to dive into it and use it due to it's good visibility into user actions and the ability to tie all M365 actions together into one place. We did not see similar visibility with other tools that we vetted Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Cloud App Security saves us thousands of dollars finding and rectifying apps security issues Identity Security Posture helps the organization identity stay in shape, saving thousands of dollars on security consultations The cost of suffering a breach cannot be quantified, CAS helps minimize the chances of the attackers succeeding, with excellent historical logging for most operations Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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