Cloud Discovery

Concept

Feature of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps that finds the cloud apps in use across an organization, either continuously via Defender for Endpoint or from uploaded firewall and proxy logs, and rates them against the app catalog.

Title graphic: Cloud Discovery (Concept)

Type	Concept

Articles about Cloud Discovery (1)

Taming Shadow IT: Why Employees Are Using Unauthorized Apps and How to Stop Them
2026-08-22 · Mirko Peters
Welcome back to the blog! As podcasters covering the ever-evolving landscape of Microsoft 365, Azure, and modern cloud architecture, we often receive frantic messag…

Glossary

Community wiki

Short info above, community knowledge below: add practical tips, examples or corrections. New contributions are reviewed first; trusted members publish directly.

Experts and companies for this topic

Nobody has listed this topic yet. Add it to your profile.

Sources

Feed for this topic (RSS): entity/cloud-discovery/feed.xml
Articles on this topic: 1

Maintained by Mirko Peters (Microsoft MVP) · Last updated: 2026-11-03