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Connect Egnyte to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is now part of Microsoft 365 Defender, which correlates signals from across the Microsoft Defender suite and provides incident-level detection, investigation, and powerful response capabilities. For more information, see Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in Microsoft 365 Defender.

This article describes how to connect Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to your existing Egnyte via the App Connector APIs. The resulting connection gives you visibility into and control over your organization's use of Egnyte.

Prerequisites

  • The authorizing user must be one of the following:
    • Power user with can run reports role
    • Administrator
  • Audit reporting must be available in Egnyte's plan

How to connect Egnyte to Defender for Cloud Apps

Configure Defender for Cloud Apps

  1. In the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, select Settings. Then choose Cloud Apps. Under Connected apps, select App Connectors.

  2. In the App connectors page, select +Connect an app, and then select Egnyte.

  3. In the window that appears, give the connector a descriptive name, and then select Next.

  4. In the Enter details page, in Application URL, insert your Egnyte URL by using the following format: https://<domain_name>.egnyte.com

  5. Select Next.

  6. Select Connect Egnyte.

  7. In the redirected page, select Allow.

  8. In the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, select Settings. Then choose Cloud Apps. Under Connected apps, select App Connectors. Make sure the status of the connected App Connector is Connected.

Note

Microsoft recommends using a short lived access token. Egnyte doesn't currently support short lived tokens. We recommend our customers to refresh the access token every 6 months as a security best practice. To refresh the access token, revoke the old token by following Revoking an oAuth token. Once the old token is revoked, reconnect the Egnyte connector by following the process documented above.

Next steps

Control cloud apps by using policies

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