Protecting apps with MDCA

MDCA is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that can identify, protect, and govern SaaS applications by providing visibility through identity-based analysis and traffic patterns from managed endpoints, and with API integration with SaaS providers. A CASB helps to provide visibility into shadow IT processes using its discovery mechanisms, which is traditionally a challenge for many organizations without a CASB solution in place. A benefit of using MDCA as your CASB is the native connectivity available for those heavily invested in Microsoft technologies. It also integrates easily with other cloud providers (AWS and Google), allowing for visibility into all combined cloud environments from a single console.

Planning for the implementation of MDCA can be divided into a few high-level steps. If your organization contains many apps, users, and devices, there can be a substantial amount of discovery data to review, and plan for a significant investment of time...