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AppOmni vs Obsidian Security

Slow proof makes SaaS risk expensive.

Obsidian shows what happened, who did it, and what was exposed directly in the platform. AppOmni requires teams to export data and reconstruct impact elsewhere.

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Why Customers Choose Obsidian

Investigate SaaS incidents without a SIEM

Obsidian connects posture, identity, tokens, and activity in one place. Security teams investigate SaaS incidents without exporting logs or rebuilding timelines to prove impact.

Validate posture with real usage

Obsidian shows whether risky access is actually used, by which user, token, integration, or AI agent, and what data or actions were touched.

Detect attacks shaped by real breaches

Obsidian’s detections are informed by 500+ real SaaS incidents, catching token theft, hijack, and replay, malicious integrations, and supply-chain escalation paths that posture-only tools miss. Threats evolve. Obsidian keeps pace.

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Obsidian vs AppOmni

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Posture with evidence
Threat detection and response
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AppOmni
Configuration-first posture and compliance, with activity proof requiring SIEM exports and queries that increase TCO.
Flags misconfigurations, but validating impact often requires SIEM queries.
Limited stateful context; deeper OAuth investigation often requires SIEM buildout.
Often limited to inventory without exported activity for blast radius and token abuse.
Relies on config state and limited signals, missing cross-SaaS behavior and privilege misuse without correlation.
Strong posture and compliance focus, but operationalization and investigation depth can shift burden to SIEM and internal teams.
​​Knowledge Graph unifies identity, permissions, tokens, and activity for investigation and remediation.
Connects posture to usage to prioritize fixes and show real exposure to app owners.
Detects and investigates suspicious behavior with in-platform SaaS activity context, lowering SIEM dependence.
Reveals third-party access across SaaS, including risky integrations and token-driven paths.
Tracks cross-SaaS behavior to surface lateral movement and privilege misuse with context
Designed for multi-tenant SecOps with RBAC, APIs, flexible deployment, and faster investigations.

Deep SaaS integrations that show real risk

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Why Obsidian is better?

AppOmni

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Product Summary

AppOmni is a SaaS Security Posture Management platform focused on configuration, compliance, and policy enforcement. 

It surfaces SaaS settings, permissions, and OAuth applications using available APIs.

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What teams use AppOmni for

  • Reviewing SaaS configuration and policy alignment
  • Monitoring configuration drift
  • Inventorying OAuth applications and permission scopes
  • Supporting compliance and audit reporting
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Where teams see limits

  • Proving whether a control is actively being exploited without exporting data
  • Detecting advanced OAuth threats like theft, hijack, and replay without SIEM-based buildout
  • Tracing identity behavior across multiple SaaS applications with full context
  • Operationalizing alerts when tuning and filtering are limited, creating noise that buries critical signals
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Why this matters

Most SaaS breaches escalate through legitimate access, not misconfiguration alone. Executives, auditors, and regulators ask questions posture-only tools cannot answer on their own:

  • Is this risky permission actually being used in production?
  • Who or what is exercising that access, a user, token, integration, or AI agent?
  • What data was accessed and what is the true blast radius?

When posture findings are disconnected from activity, teams are forced to export events to a SIEM to reconstruct the story. That leads to higher total cost of ownership from ingest, infrastructure, and engineering, slower investigations, and weaker remediation narratives that lack proof.

Why teams choose Obsidian

Obsidian keeps identity, permissions, token grants, integrations, and SaaS activity connected in one stateful Knowledge Graph. This delivers posture with evidence and investigation-ready answers directly in the platform.

Instead of exporting data and rebuilding context in a SIEM, teams can prove risk, reduce privilege, remove unused or abused integrations, and respond faster. The result is lower operational overhead, lower total cost of ownership, and security decisions backed by concrete evidence rather than assumptions.

Obsidian not only gives us centralized visibility but also provides insights into key areas that we simply don’t have without it. They became the obvious choice for us because of the depth in context and insights they provide across all critical areas of our SaaS ecosystem.”
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”
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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

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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

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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

Obsidian vs AppOmni FAQs

What problem does Obsidian solve that AppOmni does not?

Obsidian connects posture to activity and identity over time, which is how most real SaaS attacks unfold and how teams prove impact.

Why is not posture alone enough for SaaS security?

Posture shows what could happen. Activity shows what is happening. Without activity context tied to identity and permissions, teams cannot tell whether risk is theoretical or active.

How does Obsidian support least privilege with evidence?

Obsidian ties permissions directly to usage. Teams can see which access paths are used, which are not, and remediate with proof that reduces real exposure.

How do the platforms differ in threat detection?

AppOmni often requires exporting events to a SIEM to build detections and run investigations at the depth teams need, which increases engineering effort and total cost of ownership. Obsidian supports risk hunting and investigation directly with connected SaaS context in-platform.

What is the operational impact of limited alert tuning?

When everything is treated as an alert and teams cannot selectively filter by criticality, noise increases. High-signal threats like token theft or mailbox forwarding rules can get buried. Obsidian uses Action Policies so teams control what routes to workflows and what stays informational.

How does Obsidian support large, complex environments?

Obsidian provides granular RBAC, robust APIs, enterprise workflows, and flexible deployment options (including on-prem retrievers) for environments with complex security requirements.

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