
Discover, classify, label, and protect regulated and sensitive data stored in the cloud. Detect cloud threats, compromised accounts, and malicious insiders. How Defender for Cloud Apps helps to protect your environment Malicious third-party apps and Google add-ons. Compromised accounts and insider threats. Using these apps can expose your organization to the risk of malicious apps or use of apps with excessive permissions.Ĭonnecting Google Workspace to Defender for Cloud Apps gives you improved insights into your users' activities, provides threat detection using machine learning based anomaly detections, information protection detections (such as detecting external information sharing), enables automated remediation controls, and detects threats from enabled third-party apps in your organization. Google Workspace also provides a large third-party app eco-system to help boost productivity. Such incidents can be caused by malicious actors, or by unaware employees. Using Google Workspace may expose your sensitive data not only internally, but also to external collaborators, or even worse make it publicly available via a shared link.
For more information about these changes, see Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in Microsoft 365 Defender.Īs a cloud file storage and collaboration tool, Google Workspace enables your users to share their documents across your organization and partners in a streamlined and efficient way. Microsoft 365 Defender will be the home for monitoring and managing security across your Microsoft identities, data, devices, apps, and infrastructure. This will simplify workflows, and add the functionality of the other Microsoft 365 Defender services. The Microsoft 365 Defender portal allows security admins to perform their security tasks in one location. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is now part of Microsoft 365 Defender.
To learn more about the recent renaming of Microsoft security services, see the Microsoft Ignite Security blog. For more information about the change, see this announcement.
#GOOGLE WORKSPACES UPDATE#
In the coming weeks, we'll update the screenshots and instructions here and in related pages. It's now called Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. We've renamed Microsoft Cloud App Security.