Microsoft DefenderDefender for Cloud Apps
A cloud access security broker (CASB) that discovers and controls SaaS usage.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a cloud access security broker (CASB) that discovers and controls the SaaS and cloud applications in use, protects data across them, and detects cloud-based threats — including shadow IT and risky OAuth apps. Part of Microsoft Defender XDR, it correlates cloud-app signals across the estate. Faltrox operates it as managed SaaS security and shadow-IT control.
Overview
What Defender for Cloud Apps is
Employees adopt SaaS apps faster than IT can track, and each unsanctioned app is potential data exposure and a threat vector. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is the CASB that brings that under control — discovering the cloud apps in use, assessing their risk, controlling access and data, and detecting threats across them.
It provides shadow-IT discovery, app risk assessment and governance, real-time session control (via conditional access app control), data-loss prevention across cloud apps, detection of risky OAuth apps and anomalous behaviour, and threat detection for cloud-based attacks. As part of Microsoft Defender XDR, cloud-app signals correlate with endpoint, identity, and email. Faltrox operates it as managed SaaS security and shadow-IT control.
Coverage
What it protects
The platforms, threats, and surfaces this product is built to defend.
SaaS & Cloud Apps
Discovers and controls sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS and cloud applications.
Shadow IT
Surfaces shadow IT — the cloud apps in use without IT’s knowledge or approval.
Cloud Data
Protects sensitive data across cloud apps with data-loss prevention.
Risky OAuth Apps
Detects and governs risky OAuth apps and their permissions.
Session Control
Real-time session control governs actions in cloud apps via conditional access.
Cloud Threats
Detects anomalous behaviour and cloud-based attacks.
How it works
The mechanism
How the product moves from signal to protected state, step by step.
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Discover
It discovers the SaaS and cloud apps in use, including shadow IT, and assesses their risk.
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Govern
App governance and access control sanction, block, or restrict apps and risky OAuth grants.
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Control Sessions
Real-time session control governs actions in cloud apps via conditional access app control.
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Protect Data
Data-loss prevention protects sensitive data across cloud apps.
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Operate
Faltrox discovers the SaaS estate, sets policy, and correlates cloud threats across Defender XDR.
Capabilities
Key capabilities
Shadow-IT Discovery
Discovers the cloud apps in use, including unsanctioned shadow IT, and assesses risk.
App Governance
Governs cloud apps and risky OAuth apps and their permissions.
Real-Time Session Control
Conditional access app control governs actions in cloud apps in real time.
Cloud DLP
Protects sensitive data across cloud apps with data-loss prevention.
Threat Detection
Detects anomalous behaviour and cloud-based attacks across apps.
OAuth App Protection
Detects and remediates risky and malicious OAuth applications.
Defender XDR Integration
Cloud-app signals correlate with endpoint, identity, and email across Defender XDR.
Purview Integration
Integrates with Microsoft Purview for consistent data-loss prevention and classification.
Works with
Part of the platform
Microsoft products this pairs with, and the Faltrox services that operate it.
Delivery
You buy the outcome, not the console
Managed by Faltrox
Faltrox licenses, deploys, and tunes Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps for your environment, then runs it as part of a managed service, so you get the protection without staffing another security console.
FAQ
Common questions
01What is a CASB and why do we need one?
A Cloud Access Security Broker discovers and controls SaaS usage and protects data across cloud apps. You need one because employees adopt SaaS faster than IT can track, creating shadow IT — unsanctioned apps holding sensitive data outside your visibility and control.
02How does it find shadow IT?
It discovers the cloud apps in use across the organisation — including unsanctioned ones — and assesses their risk, so you can see actual SaaS adoption and sanction, block, or restrict apps based on risk rather than being blind to them.
03What is session control?
Real-time session control (via conditional access app control) governs what users can do inside cloud apps — for example blocking downloads of sensitive data to unmanaged devices — so you control app behaviour, not just access.
04Does it handle risky OAuth apps?
Yes — it detects and governs risky and malicious OAuth applications and the permissions users grant them, which is a common and often-overlooked path for data exposure and account compromise.
05How does Faltrox operate it?
We discover your SaaS estate, set the app-governance, session-control, and data policy, and correlate cloud-app threats across Defender XDR — delivering managed SaaS security and shadow-IT control.
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Speak with the engineering team to define scope, walk through the methodology, and decide whether Faltrox is the right team to test and run your environment.
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