Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Information Reviews & Insights

Score6.7 out of 10

34 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Insightful User Actions Tracking: Users have appreciated the detailed insights provided into user actions and connections, aiding in managing shadow IT, identifying suspicious activities, and offering strong protection for sensitive cloud information.

Efficient Automation Features: Reviewers have praised the tool for its easy automation capabilities, helping with tasks like implementing policies and templates for app control, investigating threats, receiving alerts on suspicious behaviors, and assessing security posture of internal domain controllers seamlessly.

Strong Security Measures: Customers have highlighted the product's robust security features such as automatic checks for integrations, detailed threat severity distinctions, compatibility with Microsoft tools and Azure, as well as effective filters to enhance data protection.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Reviews

3 Reviews

InformationComputer Software1Telecommunications1Information Services1

Great product for E5 customers

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 13, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Microsoft Defender for Cloud apps for several functions including web filtering, SaaS app management and control, and Data Loss Prevention. The cloud inventory works well and provides a simple interface with all of the discovered SaaS apps accessed by the organization. By utilizing the sanctioned and unsanctioned tags, we are able to control the SaaS apps by blocking outright or allowing with controls and monitoring. For DLP, we utilize the alerting to report on suspicious or unusual file transfers.

Pros

SaaS application discovery
Detection alerts
Integration with other Microsoft Defender products to enhance the capabilities.

Cons

Integrate better with Purview for DLP rules
Onboard more supported applications with fine grained controls.
Provide more reporting aside from shadow it report

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is part of the E5 license suite. For organizations that have the E5 license in place, I would recommend using Defender for Cloud Apps as it provides a good level of functionality and the cost is already covered in the E5 license.

If an organization does not have the E5 license, I would suggest looking at alternative solutions like Zscaler or Netskope.

Overall, Defender for Cloud Apps is a decent product but does not provide as many features as their competitors. The real advantage to using it is when an environment has the E5 license and is utilizing all of the other Microsoft security products that are part of the license. They integrate extremely well and provide a high level of security.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Microsoft Cloud App Security is effective and price worthy with great features for data protection & threat detection in SaaS!! Kudos to Microsoft for Bringing a great feature in Azure

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 18, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Provides visibility into the access of apps and data.
Monitors users’ activities.
Classifies and protects sensitive information.
Ensures compliance.

Pros

Detect threats based on user activity logs.
Set manual and automatic alert remediation.
Implement activity policies.
Detect threats based on user activity logs.

Cons

It takes some time to scan and apply the policies when there is some sensitive information.
After it applies the policies, it works, but there is a delay.
It doesn't provide any way to scan Microsoft Teams when an external exchange of images is happening. You can always do the filtering on the documents during the chat, but if there is an image, then some kind of OCR capability is required to detect it. At present, there is no way [Microsoft Cloud App Security] can go and detect those kinds of images and alert us

Likelihood to Recommend

The feature that helps us in detecting the sensitive information being shared has been very useful. In addition, the feature that allows [Microsoft Cloud App Security] to apply policies with SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive is being used predominantly. It is a kind of unified solution. As compared to other solutions such as Netskope, Symantec, or McAfee, it provides a more unified reporting structure. It also integrates with other technologies. We have Azure Information Protection, and it goes well with the solutions that we are already using.

Sai karthik Satyavarapu

Senior Technical Specialist in Information Technology at HCL Software (Information Services, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Microsoft Cloud App Security CASB works well for data protection, DLP, and threat detection in SaaS

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 6, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use MCAS - Microsoft Cloud App Security for data protections, DLP and Threat Detections in our known and approved SaaS applications. It allows us to inspect the content of data at rest, as well as in use, and enforce security policies. MCAS brings a set of security capabilities that I cover a huge gap we had prior - Security visibility and enforcements in SaaS apps.

Pros

DLP content inspection of SaaS file stores.
Auto detection and classification of content in SaaS File stores.
Threat detection for data ex filtration and identity related threats.
Cloud SaaS discovery.

Cons

Cloud discovery throws away found services not found in the MCAS database of SaaS apps.
Many panes of glass required for a fully enabled implementation to administer, configure and utilize 100% of the product.
Room for improvement in the reporting realm - not enough records are visible and exportable for high record count policy reports.

Likelihood to Recommend

Excellent cloud discovery capabilities that can help you better understand what apps your users are using and the relative risks of each. Data protection and DLP use cases work as advertised and are exactly what our company needs to replicate DLP implementations already in the SaaS problem space. MCAS does a good job of identifying content that meets a number of pre-built types and templates for PCI and other related governance frameworks. It's a good CASB and can solve a lot of problems - it might be right for your organization and you should certainly evaluate the tool in you need CASB.

Verified User

Program Manager in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience