Microsoft Cloud App Security (Academic Pricing)

Enterprise-grade security for cloud apps

Discover and control the use of shadow IT

Learn how to identify SaaS apps and services your organization uses. Manage over 31,000 apps assessing risk factors to ensure compliance.

Protect your sensitive information in all your apps

Understand, classify, and protect sensitive information at rest or use out-of-the box policies and automated processes to apply real-time controls to data accessed by apps.

Protect against cyberthreats using advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR

Detect unusual behavior across apps to identify ransomware, compromised users, and suspicious activity. Analyze usage of apps and mitigate risks.

Help secure your organization with real-time controls

Use real-time controls to enable threat protection on your organization’s access points.

Manage your SaaS app security posture

Investigate security configuration gaps in all your apps shown in Microsoft Secure Score and take action on recommendations from Defender for Cloud Apps.

Gain security and policy management with app governance

App governance, included in Defender for Cloud Apps at no additional cost, monitors, governs, and protects OAuth-enabled and line-of-business apps that access Microsoft 365 data via Microsoft Graph APIs.