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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 attacks.
Comprehensive SaaS security
Get full visibility of your SaaS app landscape and help protect your apps with Defender for Cloud Apps.
Get full visibility of your SaaS app landscape
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.
Control how apps interact with each other
Gain visibility into over-permissioned apps, detect suspicious app activities, and govern app-to-app interactions.
Automatically disrupt sophisticated SaaS attacks
Get incident-based investigation, leading threat detection, and automatic disruption of OAuth-based attacks in the Microsoft Defender portal
Discover and control the use of generative AI apps
Gain comprehensive visibility into more than 1,000 generative AI apps, understand their risks, and implement security controls to limit risk to your organization.
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 IT
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 an attack.
Unified security operations platform
Secure your digital estate with the only security operations (SecOps) platform that unifies the full capabilities of extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM).
Unified portal
Detect and disrupt cyberthreats in near-real time and streamline investigation and response.
Defender XDR
Achieve unified security and visibility across your clouds, platforms, and endpoints.
Microsoft Sentinel
Aggregate security data and correlate alerts from virtually any source with cloud-native SIEM.
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.
Industry recognition
Microsoft Security is a recognized industry leader.
Omdia
Microsoft is applauded for offering a comprehensive approach to SaaS security in this report from Omdia.1
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Defender for Cloud Apps—documentation and training
What is SaaS security?
Learn more about how Defender for Cloud Apps follows a SaaS security model.
Watch a quick overview
Learn more about the core pillars of Defender for Cloud Apps.
Join the Defender for Cloud Apps community
The Defender for Cloud Apps community welcomes enthusiasts, customers, and IT professionals.
Explore the top SaaS app use cases
Learn how to approach the top SaaS app use cases with Defender for Cloud Apps.
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