Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Roadmap

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Microsoft-hosted service designed to help organizations discover the cloud applications accessed by their users and offers management and data loss prevention capabilities in certain scenarios.

Product: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Licensing: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Recent Updates and Near-Term Roadmap (2026–2027)

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a relatively mature service, which primarily receives updates to help customers discover the cloud applications and identities used in their organization.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps updates recently released or in preview during 2025 include:

Enhanced capabilities to discover unused OAuth applications connected to Microsoft 365, inventorying all connected SaaS applications, detailed information about the application and the potential security, regulatory compliance, or legal concerns with using those applications, and OAuth attack path analysis

New capabilities

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