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Ram-Krish
Cloud Security & Governance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Previously, we didn't have any cloud product. We only had on-premise products. Our organization joined the cloud around one and a half years ago mainly because of this pandemic situation.
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Edward-Walton
Security Principal at Trifecta Cloud Security Solutions
We switched to an all-Microsoft shop because they're integrated.
View full review »I did not work with a previous solution for cloud apps. For antivirus, I worked with McAfee.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
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We have used Azure AD groups initially. Then, we continued grouping within the security groups and only had a designated cloud once we moved to PIM.
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Simon Burgess
Infrastructure Engineer at SBITSC
I've previously used Symantec, which for some is the greatest product. My top two are Sophos and Microsoft Defender for antivirus or web filtering. Symantec doesn't really come close to these two.
Microsoft Defender is probably now accepted as the best product on the market for antivirus and web filtering. Five or ten years back, there were Symantec and others, but Microsoft has basically built a competitive product to rival those that used to do this kind of thing. Businesses are just happy to accept that it works. It's expensive, but it does what it says on the tin.
The legacy products, like Symantec, on servers and clients no longer work. They require a lot of manual configuration, and they also don't protect the PC or server as well as Defender, which is also more cost-effective. It's already built into your home PC's operating system. If you've got a business PC, it's built-in. With Defender for Cloud Apps or Defender Endpoint management or InTune, you've got the management of the PC, which is what this pays for.
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Ibikunle Imam
COO at Floating-Dot Technology LTD
We didn't use another solution prior to this one. We have always used Microsoft.
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reviewer2315619
CTO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We were using another solution. It was not Azure. We switched in large part because that was a region-based company, and they ran into some issues, so we were left for a little while without a cloud environment. When I was comparing this with AWS, as an example, I picked Azure because of the general acceptance of the product in our market and in our space. I felt pretty comfortable going into it knowing that it would be there in five years or ten years as we grow.
View full review »At first we used Panda, and after that we had McAfee. We replaced McAfee with Defender. Panda's client was very heavy on the device and, with McAfee, the benefit versus the cost was not so good.
Also, I spoke to colleagues at other companies that have implemented the solution and they said it's very simple to install.
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reviewer1538016
SOC Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The customer with 100 licenses used Sophos EDR. Microsoft Defender is more manageable. Sophos EDR is not a bad product. It is a complete product, but the Microsoft Defender is better.
View full review »We did not have a previous solution.
View full review »I've only really worked with this solution.
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Savad Siddeeque
Support Engineer at Microsoft
Before this, my company had some tools, but I'm not sure about them. They probably heavily relied upon Splunk and other APM tools. They have had this tool from the time I have been here. Personally, I haven't worked on technologies outside of Microsoft.
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reviewer2315772
Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I have used other products while working at other places. They all are more expensive than Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
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reviewer1662060
Senior Cloud & Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I don't have any experience working with a third party or a competitor of Cloud App Security, however, I know there is one called McAfee, which is supposed to be equally good.
McAfee offers a cloud app security service that is very, very good and close to what Microsoft offers. That is what I understand from customers and the discussions I've had surrounding it, though I have not really worked on McAfee. What I understand from customers is, Cloud App Security, the integration, the capabilities that it has to offer, are much more advanced. For example, Microsoft's identity posture assessment. There is no solution in Europe, anywhere, which offers such a capability. It's an integrated solution with Defender for Identity, however, it's a service that Cloud App Security at least offers, which otherwise would not be available.
Similarly, integration with the number of applications, as I mentioned, is great with Microsoft. The capability for you to monitor and route your traffic for all of these different applications, and to be able to analyze the traffic from those corporate applications is important.
The reverse proxy capability that Microsoft Cloud App Security offers is really good. It lets you track anything in real-time, and monitor all those things, which is not possible using other solutions.
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reviewer1176120
IT Planning Manager at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have an in-house ABAP development team that works on ABT software. I have heard the technical team conducting this evaluation, but I'm not sure which SAP application they're testing.
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Roos Joakim
Business System Analyst at a tech company with 201-500 employees
We were using F-Secure before implementing Microsoft Cloud App Security, and we are still using it. In fact, it is just another layer of protection. If in the future we see that the Microsoft product is good enough, then we might stop using F-Secure. However, that is not the plan at the moment.
The main reason that we chose this product is for its good compatibility with Office 365 and Azure Active Directory.
View full review »I have experience with Netskope and I think that it has higher marks. It is more lightweight.
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Gil Blumberg
Enterprise System Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
This is the only CASB product that I have ever used.
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
769,065 professionals have used our research since 2012.