Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Key benefits
Govern access to apps and resources
Assess the compliance of your apps
- Discover and control the use of shadow IT
- Protect your sensitive information anywhere in the cloud
- Enable secure remote work, protect against threats
- Help secure your organization with real-time controls
- Manage your cloud app security posture
- Gain insight into your Microsoft 365 app behaviors
Discover and control the use of shadow IT
Identify cloud apps and services your organization uses. Evaluate the risk levels, business readiness, and manage over 28,000 apps assessing more than 90 risk factors.
Protect your sensitive information anywhere in the cloud
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.
Enable secure remote work, protect against threats
Detect unusual behavior across cloud apps to identify ransomware, compromised users, or rogue applications. Analyze usage of apps and mitigate risks.
Help secure your organization with real-time controls
Manage your cloud app security posture
Investigate security configuration gaps with a view of your apps in all clouds, and take action on security configuration 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 apps that access Microsoft 365 data via Microsoft Graph APIs.
Discover and control the use of shadow IT
Identify cloud apps and services your organization uses. Evaluate the risk levels, business readiness, and manage over 28,000 apps assessing more than 90 risk factors.
Protect your sensitive information anywhere in the cloud
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.
Enable secure remote work, protect against threats
Detect unusual behavior across cloud apps to identify ransomware, compromised users, or rogue applications. Analyze usage of apps and mitigate risks.
Help secure your organization with real-time controls
Manage your cloud app security posture
Investigate security configuration gaps with a view of your apps in all clouds, and take action on security configuration 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 apps that access Microsoft 365 data via Microsoft Graph APIs.
The Microsoft approach to CASB
Gain visibility into your cloud apps and services using sophisticated analytics to identify and combat cyberthreats. Control how your data is consumed, no matter where it lives. Defender for Cloud Apps natively integrates with industry-leading security and identity solutions or any other solutions you want to use.
Industry recognition
Forrester
This commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting examines the cost savings and business benefits of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security).1
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
What customers say about Defender for Cloud Apps
Defender for Cloud Apps—documentation and training
Documentation
What is a CASB?
Read selections from our technical documentation to learn about this critical cloud acceleration tool.
Use Cases
Explore top use cases for CASBs
Learn about customers’ primary concerns when navigating resource and app management and control.
Tech Community
Join the Defender for Cloud Apps community
The Defender for Cloud Apps community welcomes enthusiasts, customers, and IT professionals.
Documentation
Deploy your proof of concept
Try out scenarios that deliver the optimum value of Defender for Cloud Apps.
Protect everything
A simple circular diagram shows how Microsoft brings a unique approach to the CASB market, helping customers to achieve Zero Trust security. Defender for Cloud Apps uses 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, analytics, and automation.
1. The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) Of Microsoft Cloud App Security, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, May 2020.
2. The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Security Gateways, Q2 2021, Andras Cser, May 2021.