Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a multimode cloud access security broker.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps was chosen primarily due to its ability to work perfectly within our mostly M365 environment. Given that this was an added feature of our E5 license, we chose to dive into it and use it due to it's good visibility into user actions and the …
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps acts as an additional security layer for all SaaS applications our organizations uses to do business and helps providing detailed information about this Apps that we normally use across the entire organizations on a single dashboard, enabling …
More flexible and more features with easy integration with cloud services like Microsoft Azure and other cloud services. Overall both gives similar features but we prefer Microsoft cloud app security due to its high threat detection rate. mostly we have been able to stop the …
We had a past experience with Microsoft ATA, one of the engines that Cloud App Security now uses to provide insights on internal threats, Microsoft ATA was discontinued and all of its features became part of the Microsoft Defender suite, surely, Cloud App Security and the …
Microsoft Cloud App Security is more professional than Google 360. It helped organize documents better and staff [was] more willing to integrate it into their daily routines. Microsoft offered more options for organizations and it made more sense the way their application was …
MCAS works well for our particular needs in the DLP, Data Protection, cloud discovery and Threat Detection spaces; most of these tools can accomplish the same tasks and also do enforcements with a forward proxy solution - MCAS does not offer that and if you need it you will …
It is well suited if your team is working with Microsoft tools and Azure services. but if you are using other cloud service providers and don't want to spend efforts in learning integration with third-party software then this is not a great fit for you. overall we are very satisfied with the product. If your corporation with Microsoft tools then I would recommend it.
I have not utilized actual support but the Sales and Product teams have been super helpful in moving our implementation forward and showing us the best practices.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps was chosen primarily due to its ability to work perfectly within our mostly M365 environment. Given that this was an added feature of our E5 license, we chose to dive into it and use it due to it's good visibility into user actions and the ability to tie all M365 actions together into one place. We did not see similar visibility with other tools that we vetted
Cloud App Security saves us thousands of dollars finding and rectifying apps security issues
Identity Security Posture helps the organization identity stay in shape, saving thousands of dollars on security consultations
The cost of suffering a breach cannot be quantified, CAS helps minimize the chances of the attackers succeeding, with excellent historical logging for most operations