Defender for cloud apps policies

1. Who can create Microsoft Defender for cloud apps policies?
2. What is Defender for cloud apps real-time monitoring policy?
3. What is policies Defender for cloud apps?
4. What is the difference between Microsoft Defender for Cloud apps and Defender for cloud?
5. Should I turn off Windows Defender real-time protection?
6. Is Windows Defender real-time protection Good?
7. Which apps should I allow through Defender firewall?
8. Is it OK to delete Microsoft Defender Antivirus?
9. What are policies in cloud security?
10. What is the purpose of a cloud security policy?
11. Is Defender for cloud apps a CASB?
12. What are the benefits of Microsoft Defender for cloud apps?
13. What storage services can be protected by Defender for cloud?
14. Who can create insider risk management policies?
15. Can we create our own policies in Azure?
16. How do I create a cloud policy?
17. How do I create an activity policy in cloud app security?
18. What is an an insider risk policy?
19. What are the policies for insider threat?
20. What is the risk management policy?
21. Are Azure policies free?
22. What is the difference between a policy and an initiative in Azure?

Who can create Microsoft Defender for cloud apps policies?

To set up Defender for Cloud Apps, you must be a Global Administrator or a Security Administrator in Azure Active Directory or Office 365. It's important to understand that a user who is assigned an admin role will have the same permissions across all of the cloud apps that your organization has subscribed to.

What is Defender for cloud apps real-time monitoring policy?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps builds on Azure AD conditional access policies to enable real-time monitoring and control of granular actions with SaaS apps, such as blocking downloads, uploads, copy and paste, and printing.

What is policies Defender for cloud apps?

For more information about these changes, see Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in Microsoft 365 Defender. Policies allow you to define the way you want your users to behave in the cloud. They enable you to detect risky behavior, violations, or suspicious data points and activities in your cloud environment.

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

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.

Should I turn off Windows Defender real-time protection?

Turn Microsoft Defender Antivirus real-time protection on or off. Sometimes you may need to briefly stop running real-time protection. While real-time protection is off, files you open or download won't be scanned for threats. However, real-time protection will soon turn on automatically again to protect your device.

Is Windows Defender real-time protection Good?

Microsoft Defender antivirus is pretty safe. It has almost 100% real-time protection rates, according to independent tests.

Which apps should I allow through Defender firewall?

The apps you want are your browsers like Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and ports 80 and 443 to be open. That's what you want to allow. As for private and public the way that works is based on your connection. When you are at home with your machine you want to be set to private network.

Is it OK to delete Microsoft Defender Antivirus?

There's no harm deleting the Windows Defender files on your computer. Deleting this file will not affect any of your applications or software on your computer since they're just temporary files. You can delete it to free up some space on your drive.

What are policies in cloud security?

Cloud policies are the guidelines under which companies operate in the cloud. Often implemented in order to ensure the integrity and privacy of company-owned information, cloud policies can also be used for financial management, cost optimization, performance management, and network security.

What is the purpose of a cloud security policy?

In short, a cloud security policy is a formal guideline companies adhere to that helps ensure safe and secure operations in the cloud. It's important to note that cloud technology can be used in multiple arrangements.

Is Defender for cloud apps a CASB?

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.

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.

What storage services can be protected by Defender for cloud?

Defender for Storage provides: Azure-native security - With 1-click enablement, Defender for Storage protects data stored in Azure Blob, Azure Files, and Data Lakes.

Who can create insider risk management policies?

To enable insider risk analytics, you must be a member of the Insider Risk Management, Insider Risk Management Admins, or Microsoft 365 Global admin role group. Complete the following steps to enable insider risk analytics: In the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, go to Insider risk management.

Can we create our own policies in Azure?

A custom policy definition allows customers to define their own rules for using Azure.

How do I create a cloud policy?

Steps to create a cloud security policy

Add cloud elements into an existing infosec policy. Research the internet for examples of policies, and adapt them to your organization's needs. Evaluate and select software from a variety of vendors that can help you produce policies quickly.

How do I create an activity policy in cloud app security?

To create a new activity policy, follow this procedure: Go to Control > Policies > Threat detections. Click Create policy and select Activity policy. Give your policy a name and description, if you want you can base it on a template, for more information on policy templates, see Control cloud apps with policies.

What is an an insider risk policy?

Insider risk management policies determine which users are in-scope and which types of risk indicators are configured for alerts. You can quickly create a security policy that applies to all users in your organization or define individual users or groups for management in a policy.

What are the policies for insider threat?

The National Insider Threat Policy aims to strengthen the protection and safeguarding of classified information by: establishing common expectations; institutionalizing executive branch best practices; and enabling flexible implementation across the executive branch.

What is the risk management policy?

Description: The Risk Management Policy establishes the minimum standards to be implemented by Health Service Providers in order to effectively manage risk at all organisational levels.

Are Azure policies free?

There are no charges for using Azure Policy on Azure resources.

What is the difference between a policy and an initiative in Azure?

A security initiative is a collection of Azure Policy definitions, or rules, are grouped together towards a specific goal or purpose. Security initiatives simplify management of your policies by grouping a set of policies together, logically, as a single item.