Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Cloud and workloadsRelease Notes
In brief
Starting in August 2026, new Defender for Cloud Apps customers will have unified RBAC automatically enabled, providing centralized role and permission management across Microsoft Defender products.
What Defender admins need to know
No manual workload activation is required for new customers.
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For news about earlier releases, see Archive of past updates for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
August 2026
Unified RBAC is enabled by default for new Defender for Cloud Apps customers
Starting in August 2026, Microsoft Defender unified role-based access control (RBAC) is automatically enabled for new Defender for Cloud Apps customers. No manual workload activation is required.
Unified RBAC provides a centralized experience for managing roles and permissions across Microsoft Defender products. For more information, see Microsoft Defender unified role-based access control and Configure admin access in Defender for Cloud Apps.
June 2026
File policies retiring January 6, 2027
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ For more information on what's new with other Microsoft Defender security produc For news about earlier releases, see [Archive of past updates for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps](release-note-archive.md). +## August 2026++### Unified RBAC is enabled by default for new Defender for Cloud Apps customers++Starting in August 2026, Microsoft Defender unified role-based access control (RBAC) is automatically enabled for **new** Defender for Cloud Apps customers. No manual workload activation is required.++Unified RBAC provides a centralized experience for managing roles and permissions across Microsoft Defender products. For more information, see [Microsoft Defender unified role-based access control](/defender-xdr/manage-rbac) and [Configure admin access in Defender for Cloud Apps](manage-admins.md).+ ## June 2026 ### File policies retiring January 6, 2027