Introduction to Microsoft Cloud App Security
Today, Microsoft announced General Availability of Cloud App Security, previously Adallom, their new CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) solution. The features of this are:
Here is the reference architecture
NOTE: During content inspection, your data is not stored in Cloud App Security. Data is downloaded for purposes of inspection but data privacy is enforced. See our privacy policy for more information.
You can either upload data manually or via the Collector
The following Firewall vendors are supported
- Blue Coat
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Cisco
- Cisco ASA – Virtual Context
- Cisco ScanSafe
- Cisco IronPort WSA
- Zscaler
- Fortigate
- Palo Alto
- McAfee Secure Web Gateway
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Check Point
- Check Point
- Check Point OPSEC LEA
- Squid (Common)
- Juniper SRX
- Sophos SG
- Microsoft For
Let’s take an initial look at setting this up! You can find some information on configuration over on TechNet
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt489024.aspx
First, if you don’t already own licenses (you probably don’t), let’s grab some trial licenses first from http://www.cloudappsecurity.com/
Let’s choose Buy Now
It recognizes my O365 account, we’ll add it to my account
Now, let’s go to the O365 Admin Center and we should see our trial licenses
Let’s go assign some licenses to our users
And we should also see the new Cloud App Security Admin portal
We should see our basic portal!
In the next blog, we’ll step through some of the admin portal experience!
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