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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Govern app-to-app interactions

Investigate suspicious app activities using built-in alerts and hunt for activities related to risky OAuth apps.

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Detect threats across your connected apps

Detect unusual behavior across apps to identify ransomware, compromised users, and suspicious activity.

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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.

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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).

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Unified portal

Detect and disrupt cyberthreats in near-real time and streamline investigation and response.

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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.

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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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Safeguard your organization with a cloud identity and access management solution that connects employees, customers, and partners to their apps, devices, and data.

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Protect your multicloud and hybrid environments.

Defender for Cloud Apps—documentation and training

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What is SaaS security?

Learn more about how Defender for Cloud Apps follows a SaaS security model.

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Watch a quick overview

Learn more about the core pillars of Defender for Cloud Apps.

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Join the Defender for Cloud Apps community

The Defender for Cloud Apps community welcomes enthusiasts, customers, and IT professionals.

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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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[1] Omdia, Microsoft Recognizes the Need for a More Comprehensive SaaS Security Offering, Rik Turner, October 21, 2022.

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