Great visibility for the Microsoft 365 stack.
We use Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to gain visibility over user actions inside of our environment, as well as assessing the …
Microsoft Defender for Cloud AppsFormerly Microsoft Cloud App Security
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What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a multimode cloud access security broker.
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What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps?
Microsoft's CASB helps customers to achieve Zero Trust security. Defender for Cloud Apps uses an enforcement engine at its core, providing real-time policy evaluation. The engine delivers protection by analyzing signals, applying organization-wide policies and threat intelligence, and ensuring identities are verified and authenticated and devices are safe. It conditionally grants access to data, apps, infrastructure, and networks, providing continuous and comprehensive visibility, analytics, and automation.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Technical Details
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a multimode cloud access security broker.
Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, and Netskope CASB are common alternatives for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
The most common users of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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May 31, 2022
Great visibility for the Microsoft 365 stack.
- Insight into user actions
- Insight into user connections
- Cloud file scanning
- Easier to understand UI
- Further clarity into user search
- Better third party cloud connections
January 05, 2022
Excellent defender to our Cloud Apps
- Helps to discover and manage shadow IT.
- Suspicious activity identification.
- Perfect protections to sensitive Cloud information.
- In the event of Cloud traffic it is not easy to monitor and identify attacks.
- Difficult to protect unmatched Cloud devices.
December 15, 2021
A good value when bundled with Defender, but lacking overall
- Easy automation
- straight forward dashboard
- integration with other Microsoft security tools
- Massive delays between the time an activity occurs and when MCAS alerts, up to 24 hours sometimes
- Many false negatives due to the way it tracks IP addresses and things like impossible travel
- Some of the default alerts dont trigger emails or dont even support email
December 08, 2021
Security Review of MCAS
- Integrates with Microsoft Products
- Has a fair share of popular SasS connectors
- Is constantly releasing new connectors for new SaaS platforms
- They need more Saas integrations
- Some of the integrations are lacking data or feeds that are needed
December 01, 2021
Microsoft Cloud App Security live up to Expectation
- Security and Auto check for integrations
- Detail distinguish according to severity of threats
- Work well with Microsoft tools and Azure
- filters are also good
- Not smooth working with other cloud service provider like aws
- sometimes not updated with latest threat or very late threat detection.
- Can be more UI side attractive
- Not a cheap price
- slow with real time data
November 26, 2021
Unparalleled insights that help you improve your cloud security posture with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
- Application Usage Monitoring
- Security Posture of Internal Domain Controllers
- Policies and Templates to control apps
- Threat investigation and remedy
- Alerts and Notifications on suspectious app behaviors
- Refining Search and Drill Down in the Management Portal
- Better Filtering UI, Locating Right Events/Activities is Relatively Difficult
- More Policy Templates to Cover Wider Scenarios
- Better Guidelines on How to Rectify a Problem/Security Issue
November 25, 2021
Good for storage
- Organization
- Communication
- Storage
- Features
- Details
- Graphics
- Detect threats based on user activity logs.
- Set manual and automatic alert remediation.
- Implement activity policies.
- Detect threats based on user activity logs.
- 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
November 17, 2021
Top notch protection against cloud threats
- Audit
- Enterprise Security
- Integration
- Intermittent bugs related to policies turning off
December 06, 2019
Microsoft Cloud App Security CASB works well for data protection, DLP, and threat detection in SaaS
- DLP content inspection of SaaS file stores.
- Auto detection and classification of content in SaaS File stores.
- Threat detection for data ex filtration and identity related threats.
- Cloud SaaS discovery.
- Cloud discovery throws away found services not found in the MCAS database of SaaS apps.
- Many panes of glass required for a fully enabled implementation to administer, configure and utilize 100% of the product.
- Room for improvement in the reporting realm - not enough records are visible and exportable for high record count policy reports.