Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Modernize how you secure apps and generative AI systems, elevate your security posture, and defend against software as service (SaaS)-based cyberattacks.
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OVERVIEW
Comprehensive SaaS security
Get full visibility of your SaaS app landscape and help protect your apps with Defender for Cloud Apps.
- Remove security blind spots and strengthen your SaaS app posture with comprehensive discovery and out-of-the-box evaluations against more than 90 risk factors.
- Gain visibility into over-permissioned apps, detect suspicious app activities, and govern app-to-app interactions.
- Get incident-based investigation, leading cyberthreat detection, and automatic disruption of OAuth-based attacks in the Microsoft Defender portal.
- Gain comprehensive visibility into more than 1,000 generative AI apps, understand their risks, and implement security controls to limit risk to your organization.
HOW IT WORKS
From CASB to SaaS security
Defender for Cloud Apps includes additional capabilities that extend beyond the traditional cloud access security broker (CASB) scope to strengthen app posture and protect against malicious cloud apps. Ensure holistic coverage for your apps by combining SaaS security posture management, app-to-app protection, and integrated threat protection.
CAPABILITIES
Defender for Cloud Apps capabilities
Strengthen your SaaS security posture
Get configuration assessments to identify potential risks in your SaaS application environments and use actionable guidance to strengthen your security posture.
Discover and control the use of shadow ITÂ
Learn how to identify SaaS apps and services your organization uses. Manage over 33,000 apps assessing more than 90 risk factors to ensure compliance.
Govern app-to-app interactions
Investigate suspicious app activities using built-in alerts and hunt for activities related to risky OAuth apps.
Detect threats across your connected apps
Detect unusual behavior across apps to identify ransomware, compromised users, and suspicious activity.
Investigate and respond to SaaS incidents
Gain deep insights into user activities and correlated entities and events to understand the full scope of a cyberattack.
Securing AI applications
Step-by-step instructions to help security operations center (SOC) analysts secure AI applications.
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