Planning your MDA implementation
In this section, you will learn how to plan for and configure MDA. It is a CASB solution designed to provide Microsoft 365 administrators with visibility of all Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications within their organization and alert them to risky cloud app usage.
The framework of MDA enables you to discover shadow IT activities (for further information, please refer to the Further reading section at the end of this chapter), as well as identify, classify, and protect sensitive information stored in the cloud. It also detects anomalous behavior within cloud apps to protect you from cyber threats. This in turn helps you ensure that industry standards for security and compliance are applied to your cloud apps to protect them against data leakage.
Note
MDA was previously known as Microsoft Cloud App Security. It is not to be confused with Office 365 Cloud App Security, which is a subset of the features of MDA. Office 365 Cloud App Security...