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Secure access for your workforce with the Microsoft Entra Suite
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Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024, 07:00 AM PDTEvent details
With the Microsoft Entra Suite, you can enable employees to securely access any cloud and on-premises app, with least privilege access, across public and private networks inside and outside your corp...
Heather_Poulsen
Updated May 14, 2025
florian-PE
Aug 14, 2024Occasional Reader
Why is the web filtering part of the Global Secure Access client instead of Defender? As for current versions of the GSA client the user is able to pause the client without any admin rights and therefore bypass any web filtering policies? Are there plans to disable client pausing or limiting the ability to pause the client for normal users?
- Reid_SchrodelAug 14, 2024
Microsoft
Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provide different layers of protection for your organization--with the former providing an identity-centric, cloud-delivered Secure Web Gateway solution and the latter providing device-centric endpoint security value. Both products provide defense-in-depth when used together. To learn more about Internet Access, you can read more at aka.ms/InternetAccess. For the GSA client there are plans to disable/limit the ability for normal users to pause the client.