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Apply Tag Recommendations to Sanctioned Apps

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Apply Tag Recommendations to Sanctioned Apps

SaaS Security Inline's autotagging feature uses information from Cloud Identity Engine to identify apps that are sanctioned by your organization.
To categorize apps that your organization has approved for general use, you can apply the default tag
Sanctioned
to the apps. To help you identify apps that you should tag as
Sanctioned
, SaaS Security Inline uses information from the Cloud Identity Engine to determine if a detected app is an enterprise application accessible through your identity provider. If the app is an enterprise application, SaaS Security Inline will recommend that you tag the app as
Sanctioned
.
When you navigate to the Discovered Applications view, a banner message will notify you if SaaS Security Inline has discovered any new apps that it has determined to be sanctioned. You can then review a list of these apps and tag them as
Sanctioned
. Alternatively, you can reject the tagging recommendation for one or more of the apps and apply other tags instead.
Prerequisites
: To determine if an app is sanctioned by your organization, SaaS Security Inline attempts to obtain information from Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) or Okta Directory through the Cloud Identity Engine. To enable sanctioned app detection, the following configuration is required.
SaaS Security Inline can identify a majority of SaaS enterprise applications supported by Azure AD and Okta Directory. To create tagging recommendations, SaaS Security Inline matches this information with the SaaS apps that it discovers in your environment. However, for a minority of applications, SaaS Security Inline cannot match the application it discovers in your environment with the information from Azure AD and Okta Directory. If SaaS Security Inline detects these applications in your environment, it is not able to recommend that you tag the applications as
Sanctioned
.
  1. Log in to your tenant, and navigate to SaaS Security Inline.
  2. To navigate to the Discovered Applications view, select
    Discovered Apps
    Applications
    .
    If SaaS Security Inline has discovered apps that are enterprise apps accessible through your identity provider, a banner message displays the number of apps and suggests that you tag the apps as
    Sanctioned
    .
    You can click the
    Cloud Identity Engine
    link in the banner message to navigate to the Directories page of the Cloud Identity Engine. On this page, you can view the Azure AD and Okta Directory instances that are synced to Cloud Identity Engine. SaaS Security Inline uses this synced information to identify your organization's enterprise apps.
  3. Select the option to
    Review Tags Now
    .
    The Tag Recommendations window lists the apps that SaaS Security Inline identified as sanctioned. By default, SaaS Security Inline applies the
    Tagged: Never
    filter to list only the applications that were never tagged.
  4. Review the list to determine whether you want to accept the recommendation to tag the apps as
    Sanctioned
    , or if you want to apply a different tag to one or more of the apps.
    If you do not want to tag the apps at this time, take one of the following actions:
    • If you do not currently have enough information to determine whether to accept the recommended tagging or to apply alternative tags, close the Tag Recommendations window. SaaS Security Inline will display the banner notification later to remind you to take action. You can also open the
      Tag Recommendations
      window from the Discovered Applications view.
    • If you do not want to apply the
      Sanctioned
      tag to the selected apps and you do not want SaaS Security Inline to remind you about these apps again, select the apps and choose
      Ignore
      . SaaS Security Inline will not tag the selected apps, and hides the apps from the list. If you decide to tag these apps later, you can open the
      Tag Recommendations
      window and filter the tag recommendations to show apps that have a
      Tag Status
      of
      Ignored
      .
  5. To apply tags to apps, select one of more of the apps and take one of the following actions:
    • To tag the selected apps with the
      Sanctioned
      tag,
      Accept Tag as Sanctioned
      .
    • To apply an alternative tag to the selected apps, from the
      Re-Tag
      action list, select the tag you want to apply.
  6. (
    Optional
    ) Review previously tagged applications.
    When you first open the Tag Recommendations window, SaaS Security Inline applies the
    Tagged: Never
    filter to list only the applications that were never tagged. To view applications that are already tagged, complete the following steps:
    1. Use the
      Tagged
      filter to show all tagged applications, or only the applications that were tagged in the last 7, 30, or 90 days.
      The Tag Recommendations window displays additional columns that show each application's current tag and when the tag was applied.
      If your tenant has SaaS Security Inline and SSPM enabled, the Tag Recommendations window also displays an
      Onboarding Status
      column. The
      Onboarding Status
      column displays Data Security and Posture Security labels to show whether Data Security and SSPM scans are available for the app. If a label contains a green circle, this means that the application is onboarded and at least one instance is active. If a label contains a red circle, this means that the application is onboarded, but no instance is active. If neither colored circle appears in the label, then scans are available, but the application is not onboarded. If scans are available but the application is not onboarded, we recommend that you onboard the application.
    2. To re-tag an application, select the application in the list and, from the
      Re-Tag
      action list, select the tag you want to apply.

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