Falcon Shield shows you which third-party apps are connected. Obsidian shows you what they accessed, who was affected, and how far the risk spread.
With CrowdStrike, you’re solving for posture but not the behaviors that actually create SaaS risk."
— CISO, Leading Bank
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CrowdStrike Falcon Shield extends the Falcon platform into SaaS. It brings configuration checks, posture views, and OAuth application inventories into the same console your endpoint and identity teams already use.
Falcon Shield sees misconfigurations. It doesn't see what third-party apps actually did, how tokens were used, or how access moved after it was granted. Everything happening inside SaaS, outside the IdP, is effectively invisible.
SaaS attacks don't move through endpoints. They move through OAuth tokens, dormant integrations, and third-party apps with permissions that outlived their purpose. A platform that maps configuration but can't show what access actually did leaves your team piecing together signals after the fact, not catching risk before it spreads.
Organizations often choose Obsidian because the architecture keeps identity, permissions, token relationships and SaaS activity connected in one place. Rather than routing events through data processors or treating posture, access and activity as separate workflows, Obsidian collects and normalizes primary data directly, keeping those relationships intact.
This connected foundation helps teams understand how access is granted, how privileges chain across applications and where integrations may create unintentional reach. Unlike platforms that rely on static inventories and isolated logs, Obsidian maintains a continuously updated model that surfaces how identities and access evolve across apps.
Teams also value that Obsidian links posture, identity and activity as part of one system. When configurations change, approvals are bypassed, permissions drift or integrations gain new reach, the context is visible immediately. This helps teams prioritize the issues that matter and understand their environment with greater certainty.
The result is a clearer picture of how SaaS and AI systems interact, how privileges propagate and where access paths may create risk. This level of connected insight is what many organizations expect from a modern SaaS security platform.
Obsidian processes 29 billion events monthly across the world's most targeted enterprises, including 2 of the 5 biggest US banks, the world's largest energy company, and the world's largest hospitality provider.
Obsidian draws on three sources no other vendor combines: 200+ enterprise application integrations, real-time browser telemetry, and intelligence from 500+ real-world breach responses.
99.99% uptime over the last 12 months. Data centers in the US, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. Granular RBAC. Mature, production safe connectors.
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