What is MCAS and why would you need it?

Hello cloud marathoners,

The MCAS (Microsoft Cloud App Security) ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ๐Ÿ” – helps to identify and combat cyberthreats across all your cloud services. This is a cloud access security broker (CASB) that provides multifunction visibility, control over data travel, and sophisticated analytics.

Here is a high level architecture diagram from Microsoft docs.

What are the main benefits of this cloud service?

Here are the main three benefits ot brings alone:
โœ”๏ธ Discovery & Manage your apps
โœ”๏ธ Govern access to apps and resources
โœ”๏ธ Check compliance on your cloud apps

Check out this detailed level architecture ofย #appsecurityย inย Microsoft Azure โ„ขย ๐Ÿ‘

MCAS – Microsoft Cloud App Security.


What are the main use cases for your business?

โœ”๏ธ Shadow IT Discovery & Control
โœ”๏ธ Secure Access
โœ”๏ธ Security Poster Management
โœ”๏ธ Threat Protection
โœ”๏ธ Information Protection
โœ”๏ธ User & Entity Behavioral Analytics

Another beauty of above architecture lies in a fact that you could easily integrate this model with third party SaaS apps, all listed on a diagram.

Thank youย Matt Sosemanย for bringing this diagram ย #SharingIsCaringโค๏ธ๏ธ

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