Abnormal Security / Abnormal AI vs Obsidian Security

Abnormal Security / Abnormal AI vs Obsidian Security

A brief contrast of Abnormal’s email-centric AI detection and Obsidian’s broad SaaS threat coverage.

Overview of Abnormal Security and Obsidian

Features of Abnormal Security

Abnormal AI extends its email threat detection into SaaS, focusing on account takeover protection and Microsoft 365 privilege change monitoring.

Features of Obsidian

Obsidian combines SaaS-native intelligence with real-time browser controls, giving CISOs a full-spectrum defense. Best suited for companies that need rapid deployment and deep protection against identity-driven and AI-era threats.

Abnormal Security / Abnormal AI vs Obsidian Pricing

Abnormal AI focuses on email-centric detection and limited SaaS posture management, often requiring additional SSPM or UEBA solutions for full SaaS coverage. Obsidian provides these capabilities natively, reducing integration complexity and total cost of ownership.

Illustration comparing Abnormal AI and Obsidian SaaS security platforms, highlighting their key features with a VS symbol in the center.

Obsidian vs Abnormal Security / Abnormal AI

Least privilege icon
Least privilege
Data exposure verification icon
Data exposure verification
SaaS supply chain risk management icon
SaaS supply chain risk management
Token misuse & compromise icon
Token misuse & compromise
Insider risk detection icon
Insider risk detection
Supply chain & OAuth threat detection and incident response icon
Supply chain & OAuth threat detection and incident response
MFA bypass detection icon
MFA bypass detection
AI prompt security icon
AI prompt security
Advanced AI-powered phishing icon
Advanced AI-powered phishing
Abnormal Security / Abnormal AI
Least privilege
Data exposure verification
SaaS supply chain risk management
Token misuse & compromise
Insider risk detection
Supply chain & OAuth threat detection and incident response
MFA bypass detection
AI prompt security
Advanced AI-powered phishing

Powerful integrations, zero hassle

Why Obsidian is better?

Abnormal Security / Abnormal AI

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Product Summary

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Use Cases

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Shortcomings

Why your peers choose Obsidian over Abnormal Security / Abnormal AI

Abnormal’s email-centric detection and limited SaaS posture management help stop account takeovers but leave gaps in continuous SaaS analytics and browser-layer defense. Obsidian fills those gaps with unified SaaS intelligence and immediate threat prevention.

We’ve saved an absolute ton of people hours through automation and data pulled from Obsidian”
Obsidian’s been able to scale with us wherever we’ve needed it to go”
You’ve revolutionized our incident response”
With Obsidian, we had all the integrations in place, ready to go, and a big catalog of threat detections out-of-the-box”
Headshot of Mario Duarte from Snowflake

Snowflake has hundreds of SaaS applications — to gain visibility into those SaaS applications could take months. With Obsidian we were able to do that in days, if not hours.

Mario Duarte, Vice President of Security, Snowflake

Headshot of Heather Akuiyibo from Databricks

Our partnership with Obsidian as a Built on Databricks Partner underscores a joint commitment to offer our customers a secure and unified platform for data, analytics and AI, that empowers fast and powerful insights.

Heather Akuiyibo, VP Go-To-Market, Databricks

Headshot of Øyvind Berget from Norma Cyber

Seeing threats across SaaS solutions in a single pane of view is critical to us. Obsidian promises always-on monitoring and protection, and meets the compliance standards that our members need to operate seamlessly.

Øyvind Berget, Chief Technical Officer, Norma Cyber

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