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    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
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    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps stacks up against Netskope. There are areas in which Netskope offers more insights into web traffic however because of the tight integration to the Microsoft ecosystem is one of the reasons why we choose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. It …
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    Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    Many of the competitors who started in the CASB space have expanded into the SASE category. If organizations do not need the additional controls provided by a SASE solution, then Defender for Cloud Apps is pretty good. If an organization needs a true SASE solution, you would be …
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    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 …
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    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 …
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    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 …
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    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
    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 …
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    Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    We did not evaluate other tools, as our main driver was Defender ATP and MCAS came included
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    Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    pricing and flexibility and implementation is quite easy compared to other products.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    I would go for MS because we leverage Azure in our organization and that helps.
    Incentivized
    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 …
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    Would buy again
    92%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is well suited when working with other Microsoft Applications. For example, if you are working with Microsoft Office 365 it works very well when implementing CASB features. It works when implementing monitoring or blocks on Sanctioned applications however customizing the message to users is not that great.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • The integration to Microsoft Entra ID is seamless, which allows Conditional Access to redirect the session to Microsoft Defender for Cloud App for it to take actions (Block or Monitor).
    • Tracker users' activity is very good when troubleshooting or running an investigate.
    • Detecting risky users through tight integration with Microsoft Entra ID is a very good feature.
    • Detecting mass downloads and blocking the download of files from non-manage company devices is a very good feature as well.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • It takes some time to scan and apply the policies when there is some sensitive information.
    • After it applies the policies, it works, but there is a delay.
    • It doesn't provide any way to scan Microsoft Teams when an external exchange of images is happening. You can always do the filtering on the documents during the chat, but if there is an image, then some kind of OCR capability is required to detect it. At present, there is no way [Microsoft Cloud App Security] can go and detect those kinds of images and alert us
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    The interface is pretty simple and easy to use; however, you will need to do a lot of investigative research on your own to get comfortable with it. Originally, many of the Microsoft security tools had their own seperate consoles. Overtime, they have blended into one interface which is the ideal state. In some cases it is clear Microsoft had to pick which console a certain feature or setting was going to reside in and this leads to some confusion. For example, DLP is managed through Defender for Cloud Apps but you will also need to jump into Purview. For things like reverse proxy on your M365 tenant, you will need to go into Azure and setup conditional access rules. Not a big problem and I can understand why the settings are located where they are but for someone just starting out with Defender for Cloud Apps, it will take some time to figure out.
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    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    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 threat in very very less time.
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    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
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