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Microsoft Cloud App Security (Academic Pricing)
Enterprise-grade security for cloud apps
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Help secure your organization with real-time controls
Use real-time controls to enable threat protection on your organization’s access points.
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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.
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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.