Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Integrate with iboss

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Integrate Defender for Cloud Apps with iboss

If you work with both Defender for Cloud Apps and iboss, you can integrate the two products to enhance your security cloud discovery experience. iboss is a standalone secure cloud gateway that monitors your organization's traffic and enables you to set policies that block transactions. Together, Defender for Cloud Apps and iboss provide the following capabilities:

Seamless deployment of cloud discovery - Use iboss to proxy your traffic and send it to Defender for Cloud Apps. ~~This~~Proxying traffic through iboss eliminates the need for installation of log collectors on your network endpoints to enable cloud discovery.
iboss's block capabilities are automatically applied on apps you set as unsanctioned in Defender for Cloud Apps.
Enhance your iboss admin portal with the Defender for Cloud Apps risk assessment of the top 100 cloud apps in your organization, which can be viewed directly in the iboss admin portal.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following licenses:

A valid license for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
A valid license for iboss secure cloud gateway (release 9.1.100.0 or later)

DeploymentDeploy the iboss integration

To deploy the iboss integration with Defender for Cloud Apps, complete the following steps:

In the Microsoft Defender Portal, do the following integration steps:
1. Select Settings. Then choose Cloud Apps.
  - Source = iboss Secure Cloud Gateway
  - Receiver type = Syslog - UDP
2. Select View sample of expected log file. Then select Download sample log to view a sample discovery log, and make sure it matches your logs.

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ --- title: Integrate with iboss description: This article describes how to integrate Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps with iboss secure cloud gateway for seamless cloud discovery and automated block of unsanctioned apps.-ms.date: 01/29/2023+ms.date: 07/03/2026 ms.topic: how-to ms.reviewer: Mravela -ms.custom: sfi-image-nochange+ms.custom: sfi-image-nochange, msecd-doc-authoring-1016+ai-usage: ai-assisted --- # Integrate Defender for Cloud Apps with iboss @@ -12,16 +13,21 @@ ms.custom: sfi-image-nochange  If you work with both Defender for Cloud Apps and iboss, you can integrate the two products to enhance your security cloud discovery experience. iboss is a standalone secure cloud gateway that monitors your organization's traffic and enables you to set policies that block transactions. Together, Defender for Cloud Apps and iboss provide the following capabilities: -- Seamless deployment of cloud discovery - Use iboss to proxy your traffic and send it to Defender for Cloud Apps. This eliminates the need for installation of log collectors on your network endpoints to enable cloud discovery.+- Seamless deployment of cloud discovery - Use iboss to proxy your traffic and send it to Defender for Cloud Apps. Proxying traffic through iboss eliminates the need for installation of log collectors on your network endpoints to enable cloud discovery. - iboss's block capabilities are automatically applied on apps you set as unsanctioned in Defender for Cloud Apps. - Enhance your iboss admin portal with the Defender for Cloud Apps risk assessment of the top 100 cloud apps in your organization, which can be viewed directly in the iboss admin portal.  ## Prerequisites +Before you begin, make sure you have the following licenses:+ - A valid license for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps - A valid license for iboss secure cloud gateway (release 9.1.100.0 or later) -## Deployment+<a name="deployment"></a>+## Deploy the iboss integration++To deploy the iboss integration with Defender for Cloud Apps, complete the following steps:  1. In the [Microsoft Defender Portal](https://security.microsoft.com/), do the following integration steps:     1. Select **Settings**. Then choose **Cloud Apps**.@@ -32,7 +38,7 @@ If you work with both Defender for Cloud Apps and iboss, you can integrate the t         - Source = iboss Secure Cloud Gateway         - Receiver type = Syslog - UDP -        ![data source iboss.](media/iboss-integration.png)+        ![Screenshot of the Add data source page with iboss Secure Cloud Gateway selected and Syslog UDP receiver type configured.](media/iboss-integration.png)      1. Select **View sample of expected log file**. Then select **Download sample log** to view a sample discovery log, and make sure it matches your logs.