Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Modernize how you secure your apps, protect your data, and elevate your app posture with software as a service (SaaS) security.
Key benefits
Get full visibility of your SaaS app landscape and protect your apps with Defender for Cloud Apps.
Get full visibility of your SaaS apps
Discover, control, and configure apps to ensure employees are using trusted and compliant applications.
Protect the data in all your SaaS apps
Classify and protect sensitive information at rest, in use, and in motion. Enable your employees to safely access and view files in apps.
Control how apps interact with each other
Gain insight into privileges, permissions, and apps that are accessing sensitive data on behalf of another application.
Defend against advanced attacks using app signals
Defend against sophisticated attacks using app signals as part of your advanced hunting in Microsoft 365 Defender. The scenario-based detections will enable your SOC to hunt across the entire kill chain.
Be more efficient
Save up to 60 percent by using Microsoft Security rather than multiple point solutions.1
Capabilities
Discover and control the use of shadow IT
Learn how to identify SaaS apps and services your organization uses. Manage over 31,000 apps assessing risks factors to ensure compliance.
Protect your sensitive information in all your apps
Understand, classify, and protect sensitive information at rest or use out-of-the box policies and automated processes to apply real-time controls to data accessed by apps.
Protect against threats using advanced hunting in Microsoft 365 Defender
Detect unusual behavior across apps to identify ransomware, compromised users, and suspicious activity. Analyze usage of apps and mitigate risks.
Help secure your organization with real-time controls
Use real-time controls to enable threat protection on your organization’s access points.
Manage your SaaS app security posture
Investigate security configuration gaps in all your apps directly integrated with Microsoft Secure Score and take action on recommendations from Defender for Cloud Apps.
Gain insight into your Microsoft 365 app behaviors
Explore app governance, a security and policy management capability that monitors, governs, and protects OAuth-enabled and line-of-business apps that access Microsoft 365 data via Microsoft Graph APIs.
Integrated threat protection with SIEM and XDR
Microsoft empowers your organization’s defenders by putting the right tools and intelligence in the hands of the right people. Combine security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) to increase efficiency and effectiveness while securing your digital estate.
Microsoft 365 Defender
Prevent and detect attacks across your Microsoft 365 workloads with built-in XDR capabilities.
Microsoft Sentinel
Aggregate security data and correlate alerts from virtually any source with a cloud-native SIEM from Microsoft.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect your multicloud and hybrid cloud workloads with built-in XDR capabilities.
From CASB to SaaS Security
Get full visibility of your SaaS app landscape and take control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Ensure holistic coverage for your apps by combining SaaS security posture management, data loss prevention, app-to-app protection, and integrated threat protection.
Industry recognition
Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.
Omdia
Microsoft is applauded for offering a comprehensive approach to SaaS security in this report from Omdia.
Forrester
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Security Gateways, Q2 2021.2
Related products
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Azure Active Directory
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Defender for Cloud Apps—documentation and training
What is Defender for Cloud Apps?
Read selections from our technical documentation to learn about SaaS app-protection capabilities.
Watch a quick overview
Learn more about the core pillars of Defender for Cloud Apps.
Join the Defender for Cloud Apps community
The Defender for Cloud Apps community welcomes enthusiasts, customers, and IT professionals.
Defender for Cloud Apps deep dive
Get an in-depth overview as part of the Microsoft 365 Virtual Ninja training.
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- [2] The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Security Gateways, Q2 2021, Andras Cser, May 2021.
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