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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

8.2 /10
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
8.2 /10

What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps?

Microsoft Cloud App Security is a multimode Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). It provides rich visibility, control over data travel, and sophisticated analytics to identify and combat cyberthreats across all your cloud services.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps won the following awards in the Cloud Access Security Broker category

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Ratings

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88 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps?

1% Negative
6% Neutral
93% Positive

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Reliable
  • Security Protects
  • Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Cloud Security Posture Management

92

Cloud Discovery

90

Web Content Filtering

88

User Behaviour Analytics

88

Threat Integration

86

Encryption/Tokenization

85

Access Control

84

Zero Trust

84

Policy Management

84

Data Loss Prevention

84

Record Management

84

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of Implementation

86

Ease of Data Integration

86

Usability and Intuitiveness

85

Quality of Features

83

Ease of IT Administration

83

Business Value Created

83

Breadth of Features

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Ease of Customization

82

Vendor Support

81

Availability and Quality of Training

79

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Reviews

Adam R.

  • Role: Public Sector
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Best Microsoft security software so far.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps from other similar products?

One of the greatest applications for cloud security is Microsoft Defender for cloud, which puts virtual machines and all cloud applications at your fingertips. Advanced and improved work environments protected from malware, phishing, and ransomware threats are provided by Microsoft Defender for the cloud. One of the best features that helping us stop attacks of all kinds is continuous scanning and detection.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Defender for Cloud and Defender for Endpoint both have good no-fuss on-boarding processes that make it easy to track basic security recommendations across your Azure infrastructure. But to gain financial value, you need a team that understands how to drive it and well defined outcomes. It's not a straightforward or apparent product. Severity-based incident chart alerts are often excellent.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The majority of resources are used by automatic scanning, which has to be addressed and minimized, and policy deployment takes a long time, which needs to be fixed. The updating process for Azure Security Center and integration both take a while.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Microsoft Defender is one of the tools must be protected in order to safeguard and defend the vulnerability. The information about security risk that this product might provide can be easily overlooked in the cloud. The alert it offers to monitor suspicious activities by employing notification and by safeguarding the customer's important data in the cloud.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Rovert W.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Top notch software for cloud security.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps from other similar products?

It is an integrated product that offers threat prevention for operations operating in other clouds, on-premises, and Azure. Azure Defender safeguards your hybrid data, cloud-native services, and infrastructure while integrating with your existing security processes and being integrated with Azure Security Center. We utilize Defender for Cloud Apps to comprehend data exfiltration to third-party applications and to acquire some DLP insight.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The greatest security tool available, it improves the public cloud that will provide warnings and offers real-time threat prevention from cloud-based threats. It safeguards users of Microsoft from a variety of online threats. With the aid of Azure Defender, everything is kept safe, from databases to applications. I adore this solution's potential.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Until enough features are released in GA, figuring out what's new on the site will be your special challenge. I believe that this center needs more qualified administrators and more training. Additionally, the test version only offers a small selection of functions; you must purchase a license to use it fully.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Additionally, we use it worldwide for all clients to give insight into user behavior, irregularities, and cloud operations, as well as to give insight into currently running cloud applications. Utilizing all of its features and navigating the system around is simple. In conclusion, Microsoft Defender for Cloud might be your best friend since I believe that every organization with Windows-based devices needs cloud app security, particularly in these times.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Jack B.

  • Role: Human Resources
  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

It can be your best friend when you know how to ut

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps from other similar products?

Throughout our hybrid cloud systems, Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers system security and malware protection. It provides us with greater visibility so that we can stop, identify, and react to security concerns. There are many functionalities to discover right now, and the application is really fast, secure, and straightforward to use.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It has vulnerability assessment features as well, which allows us to find the specifics of a specific threat and grading framework as per CVSS, we are able to discover the recommendation after this Integrated tool we are able to quickly go with remedial work. The best part is that It's tracking threats in the best possible way as this is less chance to locate false optimistic. Protecting against dangers is, in my view, the best course of action.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Since this is a Microsoft product, the graphical user interface is fantastic and the reports and monitoring are adequate, but you can't immediately find out if a zero day issue has occurred. It still isn't developed enough to handle and provide thorough reports for the most recent security flaws, like Log4J.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

These days, security solutions are essential. The solution is Microsoft Defender for Cloud if your infrastructure is based on Microsoft. Additionally, I've linked this with my system and am using Microsoft security. In order to safeguard our cloud based assets from outside threats and prevent internal mishaps with good reporting tools we use this.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing