Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Cloud and workloadsIntegrate with Open Systems
In brief
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What Defender admins need to know
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Integrate Defender for Cloud Apps with Open Systems
Prerequisites
Before you begin, make sure you have the following licenses:
- A valid license for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
- A valid license for Open Systems Secure Web Gateway
Deployment
To deploy the integration between Defender for Cloud Apps and Open Systems, follow these steps:
- Contact your Technical Account Manager in Open Systems to get the Microsoft Cloud App Security with Secure Web Gateway Configuration Guide to integrate the products.
- Investigate cloud apps discovered on your network. For more information and investigation steps, see Working with cloud discovery.
- Any app that you set as unsanctioned in Defender for Cloud Apps will be retrieved by Open Systems, and then automatically blocked. It can take up to one hour for the app to be blocked on the Open Systems Secure Web Gateway. If you need the app to be blocked immediately after tagging it as Unsanctioned, contact Open Systems customer support. For more information about unsanctioning apps, see Sanctioning/unsanctioning an app.
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ --- title: Integrate with Open Systems description: This article describes how to integrate Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps with Open Systems 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+ai-usage: ai-assisted+ms.custom: msecd-doc-authoring-1016 --- # Integrate Defender for Cloud Apps with Open Systems @@ -16,11 +18,15 @@ If you work with both Defender for Cloud Apps and Open Systems, you can integrat ## Prerequisites +Before you begin, make sure you have the following licenses:+ - A valid license for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps - A valid license for Open Systems Secure Web Gateway ## Deployment +To deploy the integration between Defender for Cloud Apps and Open Systems, follow these steps:+ 1. Contact your Technical Account Manager in Open Systems to get the *Microsoft Cloud App Security with Secure Web Gateway Configuration Guide* to integrate the products. 1. Investigate cloud apps discovered on your network. For more information and investigation steps, see [Working with cloud discovery](working-with-cloud-discovery-data.md). 1. Any app that you set as unsanctioned in Defender for Cloud Apps will be retrieved by Open Systems, and then automatically blocked. It can take up to one hour for the app to be blocked on the Open Systems Secure Web Gateway. If you need the app to be blocked immediately after tagging it as **Unsanctioned**, contact Open Systems customer support. For more information about unsanctioning apps, see [Sanctioning/unsanctioning an app](governance-discovery.md#sanctioningunsanctioning-an-app).