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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

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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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Great product for E5 customers

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Microsoft Defender for Cloud apps for several functions including web filtering, SaaS app management and control, and Data Loss Prevention. The cloud inventory works well and provides a simple interface with all of the discovered SaaS apps accessed by the organization. By utilizing the sanctioned and unsanctioned tags, we are able to control the SaaS apps by blocking outright or allowing with controls and monitoring. For DLP, we utilize the alerting to report on suspicious or unusual file transfers.

Pros

  • SaaS application discovery
  • Detection alerts
  • Integration with other Microsoft Defender products to enhance the capabilities.

Cons

  • Integrate better with Purview for DLP rules
  • Onboard more supported applications with fine grained controls.
  • Provide more reporting aside from shadow it report

Return on Investment

  • Included in the E5 license making total cost of ownership lower compared with competitors and providing greater value for the organization.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zscaler Internet Access, Zscaler Private Access and Netskope CASB

Other Software Used

Zscaler Internet Access, Zscaler Private Access, Jamf Connect, Jamf Protect, Jamf Pro, Infosec IQ, Tenable Lumin, Tenable Vulnerability Management, BindPlane, Google Security Operations, Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Cloud App Security live up to Expectation

Incentivized
Sneha SharmaView profile
Assistant System Engineer in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Security and Auto check for integrations
  • Detail distinguish according to severity of threats
  • Work well with Microsoft tools and Azure
  • filters are also good

Cons

  • 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

Most Important Features

  • Detail threat detection report
  • Inspection on a periodic basis
  • Integration with Azure

Return on Investment

  • it has a positive impact
  • less spend on security for clients
  • easy apply and less efforts

Alternatives Considered

McAfee MVISION Cloud (formerly Skyhigh CASB)

Other Software Used

McAfee MVISION Cloud (formerly Skyhigh CASB), Oracle CASB Cloud Service (formerly Palerra), Jellyfish Dynamix

Microsoft Cloud App Security is effective and price worthy with great features for data protection & threat detection in SaaS!! Kudos to Microsoft for Bringing a great feature in Azure

Incentivized
Sai karthik SatyavarapuView profile
Senior Technical Specialist in Information Technology at HCL Software (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Detect threats based on user activity logs.
  • Set manual and automatic alert remediation.
  • Implement activity policies.
  • Detect threats based on user activity logs.

Cons

  • 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

Most Important Features

  • There are certain regulatory requirements in our bank for personal data and confidential information that need to be monitored from a security standpoint. It is a regulatory and standard requirement to have such a solution in place.
  • From a security monitoring perspective, there is a productivity improvement and fewer human errors.
  • In terms of user experience, if users mistakenly put PI information or some kind of data, it can detect and alert them. From that aspect, it is doing the job, but we are using it from a security standpoint. I'm more from a regulatory environment, and there are security requirements that are enforced by regulators

Return on Investment

  • It has good features which helps our organization to quickly fix challenges.
  • It depends on the requirements. Certain requirements are really complex.
  • The deployment itself is quite fast because [Microsoft Cloud App Security] is on the cloud, but there are a lot of requirements from the regulations and the bank's standards perspective.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Certificate Manager and McAfee Cloud Workload Security

Other Software Used

AWS Security Hub, AWS WAF, McAfee Cloud Workload Security

Excellent defender to our Cloud Apps

Incentivized
Daisy CooperView profile
Restaurant Manager in Finance and Accounting at Hilton (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The entire organization depends on Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to protect all our Cloud Apps that we normally use and helps to identify those Apps our employees are using which are risky and does not comply to our organizational needs, in order to keep our organizations Cloud assets secure from external attacks and shield us from internal accidents with excellent reporting capabilities.

Pros

  • Helps to discover and manage shadow IT.
  • Suspicious activity identification.
  • Perfect protections to sensitive Cloud information.

Cons

  • In the event of Cloud traffic it is not easy to monitor and identify attacks.
  • Difficult to protect unmatched Cloud devices.

Most Important Features

  • Secure protection to sensitive Cloud data.
  • Suspicious activity monitoring.
  • Easy management to compliance threats.

Return on Investment

  • Up-to--date information about every Cloud compliance requirement.
  • DLP alerts and activity from suspicious IP address.
  • Block downloads to avoid data leaks.

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud Storage, Salesforce Service Cloud and AWS CloudTrail

Other Software Used

IBM Cloudant, SAP on IBM Cloud

Good for storage

Incentivized
Cara Jay
Manager in Sales at Places for People (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Microsoft Cloud App Security is used in my organization to store documentation and forward documentation between staff and clients. The App allows us to take documents off our servers and easily transfer and edit them between staff and clients. My team routinely stores documents on the cloud and can easily organize and access them.

Pros

  • Organization
  • Communication
  • Storage

Cons

  • Features
  • Details
  • Graphics

Most Important Features

  • Movability
  • Shareability
  • Options for Sharing

Return on Investment

  • Improved Communication
  • More awareness of staff
  • Quick document creation

Alternatives Considered

Google Analytics 360 (formerly Google Analytics Premium)

Other Software Used

Dropbox, PayPal Payments Pro, Smartsheet

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