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Peter Rising
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Peter Rising has over 25 years' experience in IT. He has worked for several IT solutions providers and private organizations in a variety of technical and leadership roles, with a focus on Microsoft technologies. Since 2014, Peter has specialized in the Microsoft 365 platform, focusing most recently on security and compliance in his role as a Consulting Services Manager for Insight. Peter is heavily involved in the wider Microsoft community and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including MCSE: Productivity; Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert; and Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
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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.

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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...

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Peter Rising has over 25 years' experience in IT. He has worked for several IT solutions providers and private organizations in a variety of technical and leadership roles, with a focus on Microsoft technologies. Since 2014, Peter has specialized in the Microsoft 365 platform, focusing most recently on security and compliance in his role as a Consulting Services Manager for Insight. Peter is heavily involved in the wider Microsoft community and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including MCSE: Productivity; Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert; and Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
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