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How to differentiate SaaS applications vs regular web URLs in MDCA.
In MDCA, under cloud discovery what I see is a combination of regular SaaS apps and web URLs. Is there a way to differentiate these two in cloud discovery? Or a way to differentiate them with filters?
Reason I'm asking is I just want to focus on SaaS applications under cloud discovery and/or cloud catalog.
Thank you,
TR
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Hi, this is an answer from MS support earlier about this topic:
MDE provide traffic data to MDA including source users/devices/IP addresses and destination IP addresses/domains to MDCA and then MDCA enriches the data through risk and other information.
However, through such integrations, MDCA won’t be able to see whether users and logging into those applications or not. It just identifies that the users are visiting them and amount of data usage etc…
- Keith_Fleming
Microsoft
Hi RavTin ,
Discovery is only going to look for SaaS applications that are in the catalog. This is done based on the traffic and matching domains/IPs to data contained in the app catalog. This data is present in the discovered apps tab of the discovery dashboard.
Keith_Fleming Thanks Keith! Understood but not all apps under cloud discovery are SaaS apps so then how do you differentiate between SaaS and URL?
- Keith_Fleming
RavTin all apps in the app catalog are considered SaaS apps unless they are custom apps that were manually added. Usually in this case they will be corporate developed applications but will still have an associated URL or IPs.
Can you provide an example here of an app that's "not" a SaaS application?
