Defender for cloud apps

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that operates on multiple clouds. It provides rich visibility, control over data travel, and sophisticated analytics to identify and combat cyberthreats across all your cloud services.

1. What are the three uses of Microsoft Defender for cloud apps?
2. What is the difference between Defender and Defender for cloud apps?
3. How do I get Microsoft Defender for cloud apps?
4. Is Defender for cloud apps free?
5. What are the benefits of Microsoft Defender for cloud apps?
6. Is Defender for cloud an antivirus?
7. What is the difference between Defender for Cloud and 365 Defender?
8. How does Defender for Cloud work?
9. Is Azure Defender a WAF?
10. What is Microsoft Defender for cloud?
11. Is Microsoft Defender for cloud enabled by default?
12. What license is required for cloud app security?
13. What is Microsoft Defender used for?
14. What is the main function of Windows Defender?
15. Why Microsoft Defender is used?
16. What is the difference between Microsoft Defender and Microsoft security?
17. Is Defender a firewall?
18. Do I need to pay for Microsoft Defender?

What are the three uses of Microsoft Defender for cloud apps?

Defender for Cloud Apps can enforce policies, detects threats, and provides governance actions for resolving issues.

What is the difference between Defender and Defender for cloud apps?

Defender for Cloud is all about protecting workloads in Azure (and AWS & GCP, hence the name change from Azure Defender to Defender for Cloud), whereas Defender for Cloud Apps is all about spotting shadow IT, managing SaaS service access by your end-users, and applying policy.

How do I get Microsoft Defender for cloud apps?

To access the Defender for Cloud Apps portal, go to https://portal.cloudappsecurity.com. You can also access the portal through the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, as follows: In the Microsoft 365 Defender Portal, select More resources, and then select Defender for Cloud Apps.

Is Defender for cloud apps free?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is free for the first 30 days. Any usage beyond 30 days will be automatically charged as per the pricing scheme below. Microsoft Defender currently protects Azure Blobs, Azure Files and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 resources.

What are the benefits of Microsoft Defender for cloud apps?

Key benefits

Identify and combat cyberthreats across your cloud services with Defender for Cloud Apps, a cloud access security broker (CASB) solution that provides multifunction visibility, control over data travel, and sophisticated analytics.

Is Defender for cloud an antivirus?

The Microsoft Defender Antivirus cloud service is a mechanism for delivering updated protection to your network and endpoints.

What is the difference between Defender for Cloud and 365 Defender?

One key difference between the two is that Office 365 does not include any endpoint security features, whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is specifically designed to help protect your business against endpoint threats.

How does Defender for Cloud work?

Defender for Cloud continually assesses your resources, subscriptions, and organization for security issues and shows your security posture in secure score, an aggregated score of the security findings that tells you, at a glance, your current security situation: the higher the score, the lower the identified risk ...

Is Azure Defender a WAF?

Display Azure WAF alerts in Defender for Cloud

Azure Application Gateway offers a web application firewall (WAF) that provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities.

What is Microsoft Defender for cloud?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection solution that finds weak spots across your cloud configuration, helps strengthen the overall security posture of your environment, and helps protect workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments from evolving ...

Is Microsoft Defender for cloud enabled by default?

When you open Defender for Cloud in the Azure portal for the first time or if you enable it through the API, Defender for Cloud is enabled for free on all your Azure subscriptions. Defender for Cloud provides foundational cloud security and posture management (CSPM) features by default.

What license is required for cloud app security?

Additionally, if customers want to use the Conditional Access App Control feature of Microsoft Cloud App Security, they must also have at least an Azure Active Directory Premium P1 (AAD P1) license for all users they intend to enable for this feature.

What is Microsoft Defender used for?

Windows Security includes Microsoft Defender Antivirus software that protects your Windows device and data against viruses, ransomware, trojans, and other malware unless a non-Microsoft Antivirus is active.

What is the main function of Windows Defender?

Windows Defender Antivirus delivers comprehensive, ongoing and real-time protection against software threats like viruses, malware and spyware across email, apps, the cloud and the web.

Why Microsoft Defender is used?

In active mode, Microsoft Defender Antivirus is used as the primary antivirus app on the device. Files are scanned, threats are remediated, and detected threats are listed in your organization's security reports and in your Windows Security app.

What is the difference between Microsoft Defender and Microsoft security?

Windows Defender is renamed to Windows Security in the newer releases of Windows 10. Essentially Windows Defender is the Anti-virus program and other components like Controlled folder access, cloud protection together with Windows Defender is called Windows Security.

Is Defender a firewall?

Because Windows Defender Firewall is a host-based firewall that is included with the operating system, there's no other hardware or software required. Windows Defender Firewall is also designed to complement existing non-Microsoft network security solutions through a documented application programming interface (API).

Do I need to pay for Microsoft Defender?

Microsoft Defender for Individuals is only available as part of a paid subscription to the Microsoft 365(Opens in a new window) cloud-based office service and strictly protects non-Windows devices. For Mac and Android (but not iOS), you can pay a small subscription fee to use Microsoft's antivirus software.