Microsoft Cloud App Security
Key benefits
Manage your access to resources
Enable secure remote work with real-time controls
Industry recognition
Gartner
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers.1
Forrester
This commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting examines the cost savings and business benefits of Microsoft Cloud App Security.
KuppingerCole
Ensure secure and compliant access to cloud services without losing the agility and cost benefits these services provide.
Microsoft approach to CASB
Gain visibility into your cloud apps and services leveraging sophisticated analytics to identify and combat cyberthreats. Control how your data is consumed, no matter where it lives. Microsoft Cloud App Security is powered by native integrations with industry-leading security and identity solutions including Azure Active Directory, Intune, and Azure Information Protection, as well as any other solutions you want to leverage.
Capabilities
Discover and control the use of shadow IT
Identify cloud apps and services used by your organization. Assess their risk levels and business readiness of over 16,000 apps against more than 90 risk factors and start managing them to ensure security and compliance.
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Protect your sensitive information anywhere in the cloud
Understand, classify, and protect the exposure of sensitive information at rest, or leverage out-of-the box policies and automated processes to apply controls in real time and at rest—across all your cloud apps.
Protect against cyberthreats and anomalies
Detect unusual behavior across cloud apps to identify ransomware, compromised users, or rogue applications. Analyze high-risk usage and remediate automatically to limit the risk to your organization.
Assess the compliance of your cloud apps
Check if your cloud apps meet relevant compliance requirements including regulatory compliance and industry standards. Prevent data leaks to non-compliant apps and limit access to regulated data.
Cloud security posture management
Leverage Microsoft Cloud App Security to investigate all security configuration gaps with a multicloud view of all cloud platform security configuration recommendations.
Forrester Total Economic Impact Study
With this study, customers have substantive data support to understand how owning and using Microsoft Cloud App Security can accelerate cloud migration.2
Why customers love Microsoft Cloud App Security
Accenture safeguards move to the cloud
“We see Cloud App Security as a big enabler in our move to the cloud, providing better control over our data and activities in the cloud and helping us prevent privileged account misuse.”
NAKILAT increases their cloud security
“Using Cloud App Security as a magnifying glass, we gain amazing visibility into our SaaS environment, giving us the confidence we need to deliver on our digital workplace transformation.”
- Muhammad Yasir Khan, Head of IT Infrastructure
Ansell collects on web security and compliance requirements with Cloud App Security
“If you use [Microsoft 365] and Azure, and you’re looking for a CASB, I doubt you can find a better solution than Microsoft Cloud App Security. It’s a top-rated Gartner solution, created for the apps most of us use.”
- George Michalitsianos, Senior Director of IT Security and Infrastructure
St. Luke’s boosts compliance, protects health data
“St. Luke’s turned to the cloud for speed, security, and agility. We’re getting rid of infrastructure and automating IT processes, so we can shift our skills to sourcing and delivering more business value-added solutions.”
- Chad Brisendine, Chief Information Officer
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A simple circular diagram of Zero Trust security which leverages 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 and analytics, along with automation.
1. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
2. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, May 2020.
The infographic shows a bar chart at left stacking the benefits of deploying Microsoft Cloud App Security. From lowered time and effort for remediation of incidents to improved compliance and auditing, the savings total over $8.9M. On the right, there are three important numbers noted: the 151% return on investment (ROI), the net present value (NPV) of $5.35M, and the total payback time of less than three months.