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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10
Category
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
8.1 /10

What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps?

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, data loss prevention, app-to-app protection, and integrated threat protection.

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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

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 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
5% Neutral
94% Positive

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time
  • Effective Service
  • Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Cloud Discovery

87

Cloud Security Posture Management

86

Policy Management

84

Data Loss Prevention

84

Web Content Filtering

83

User Behaviour Analytics

83

Threat Integration

83

Zero Trust

83

Record Management

82

Access Control

82

Encryption/Tokenization

82

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of Implementation

85

Ease of Data Integration

85

Business Value Created

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Ease of IT Administration

82

Ease of Customization

81

Quality of Features

81

Breadth of Features

80

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

79

Vendor Support

79

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Reviews

SaiFaneesh Y.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2023

Easy to use and implement and good features.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

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

It made easier to implement and integrate as most of the devices in the organization were already somehow connected to Microsoft's products. The features provided were also up-to-date to the market.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ML engine which showed the behavioral analysis of the threat detected in the organization.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The product has lots of features but it was a bit hard to find them and make use of them.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is a great product and as said earlier, it is one of the easiest to implement as most of the part is taken care by the product itself.

Pros

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

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

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