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.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Reviews
4 Reviews
Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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We use Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to gain visibility over user actions inside of our environment, as well as assessing the connections they make with third party services. We also use Defender for Cloud Apps to gain limited DLP visibility, as well as understanding data exfiltration to third party applications.
Pros
Insight into user actions
Insight into user connections
Cloud file scanning
Cons
Easier to understand UI
Further clarity into user search
Better third party cloud connections
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps should be used and considered if you are within the Microsoft stack, especially using E3 or E5 licenses. While I would not wholly recommend this as a full cloud protection suite, this works perfectly within the stack and relevant SaaS apps. Provides much better visibility into users than most third party tools, given that this is a Microsoft built tool meant to bring in data from primarily Microsoft services.
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
Our organization started to expand further with more people joining and diverse types of devices being used, as the world shifted due to the pandemic, and with employees need to use their own personal devices for work, we relied heavily on Microsoft Cloud App Security (Now Called Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps), we were concerned with app security, what type of apps are people using? are these apps secure? are these apps compromising the device security? should this app be trusted? are there any invalid attempts by this app? all these questions were answered with Cloud App Security. Not only that, the visibility provided by the Cloud App Security connector for internal network authentications and activity were invaluable to our secure operations, the out of the box recommendations for our overall security posture helped us optimize/fine-tune the configuration of our network devices and domain controllers, the product works really well!
Pros
Application Usage Monitoring
Security Posture of Internal Domain Controllers
Policies and Templates to control apps
Threat investigation and remedy
Alerts and Notifications on suspectious app behaviors
Cons
Refining Search and Drill Down in the Management Portal
Better Filtering UI, Locating Right Events/Activities is Relatively Difficult
More Policy Templates to Cover Wider Scenarios
Better Guidelines on How to Rectify a Problem/Security Issue
Likelihood to Recommend
Overall, I think that every organization with Windows-based devices need Cloud App Security, especially in these times, CAS is very useful for such organizations, it would give you very detailed and comprehensive insights on your overall app security posture, types of apps, sensitivity, whether there are recent breaches for a specific app, etc... Cloud app security becomes less useful if most of your users are macOS based users, although it can detect apps regardless of the OS, some features are tailored around windows networks that cloud security does a great job at, nonetheless, in both scenarios, CAS still provides value and great insights that are truly invaluable.
VU
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
The Microsoft Cloud App Security is used in my organization to store documentation and forward documentation between staff and clients. The App allows us to take documents off our servers and easily transfer and edit them between staff and clients. My team routinely stores documents on the cloud and can easily organize and access them.
Pros
Organization
Communication
Storage
Cons
Features
Details
Graphics
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Cloud App Security is well suited for companies that create and store documents to share between staff or other clients and which to keep them organized. I would say it would be good to store a medium amount of trafficked files. Large files may be better suited for another program.
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 (51-200 employees)
