How Defender for Cloud Apps helps protect your DocuSign environment

Note

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (previously known as Microsoft Cloud App Security) is now part of Microsoft 365 Defender. The Microsoft 365 Defender portal allows security admins to perform their security tasks in one location. This will simplify workflows, and add the functionality of the other Microsoft 365 Defender services. Microsoft 365 Defender will be the home for monitoring and managing security across your Microsoft identities, data, devices, apps, and infrastructure. For more information about these changes, see Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in Microsoft 365 Defender.

DocuSign helps organizations manage electronic agreements, and so your DocuSign environment holds sensitive information for your organization. Any abuse of DocuSign by a malicious actor or any human error may expose your most critical assets to potential attacks.

Connecting your DocuSign environment to Defender for Cloud Apps gives you improved insights into your DocuSign admin activities and managed users sign-ins, and provides threat detection for anomalous behavior.

Main threats

• Compromised accounts and insider threats
• Data leakage
• Insufficient security awareness
• Unmanaged bring your own device (BYOD)

How Defender for Cloud Apps helps to protect your environment

• Detect cloud threats, compromised accounts, and malicious insiders

• Use the audit trail of activities for forensic investigations

Control DocuSign with policies

Type	Name
Built-in anomaly detection policy	Activity from anonymous IP addresses Activity from infrequent countries Activity from suspicious IP addresses Impossible travel Activity performed by terminated user (requires Azure Active Directory as IdP) Multiple failed login attempts Unusual administrative activities Unusual impersonated activities
Activity policy	Build a customized policy by the DocuSign audit log

For more information about creating policies, see Create a policy.

Automate governance controls

In addition to monitoring for potential threats, you can apply and automate the following DocuSign governance actions to remediate detected threats:

Type	Action
User governance	Notify user on alert (via Azure AD) Require user to sign in again (via Azure AD) Suspend user (via Azure AD)

For more information about remediating threats from apps, see Governing connected apps.

Protect DocuSign in real time

Review our best practices for securing and collaborating with external users and blocking and protecting the download of sensitive data to unmanaged or risky devices.

Next steps

Connect DocuSign to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps