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Great visibility for the Microsoft 365 stack.
May 31, 2022

Great visibility for the Microsoft 365 stack.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security)

We use Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to gain visibility over user actions inside of our environment, as well as assessing the connections they make with third party services. We also use Defender for Cloud Apps to gain limited DLP visibility, as well as understanding data exfiltration to third party applications.
  • 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
  • User action reports
  • DLP Alerting
  • Cloud Discovery and Traffic information
  • Drastic increase in visibility over user actions.
  • Increase in visibility over DLP alerts in our M365 stack.
  • Increase in productivity by blocking unneeded applications from gaining and abusing user consent.
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.

Do you think Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps again?

Yes

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP), Azure Security Center
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps should be used and considered if you are within the Microsoft stack, especially using E3 or E5 licenses. While I would not wholly recommend this as a full cloud protection suite, this works perfectly within the stack and relevant SaaS apps. Provides much better visibility into users than most third party tools, given that this is a Microsoft built tool meant to bring in data from primarily Microsoft services.