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 6.7 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
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Verified User Anonymous 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? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Netskope CASB, Broadcom CloudSOC CASB and formerly from Symantec Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? 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? 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? 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful?

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	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Likelihood to Recommend	6.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Likelihood to Recommend	The feature that helps us in detecting the sensitive information being shared has been very useful. In addition, the feature that allows [Microsoft Cloud App Security] to apply policies with SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive is being used predominantly. It is a kind of unified solution. As compared to other solutions such as Netskope, Symantec, or McAfee, it provides a more unified reporting structure. It also integrates with other technologies. We have Azure Information Protection, and it goes well with the solutions that we are already using. Incentivized Sai karthik Satyavarapu Senior Technical Specialist Read full review
Pros	Integrates with Microsoft Products Has a fair share of popular SasS connectors Is constantly releasing new connectors for new SaaS platforms Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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	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. Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	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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