Grip vs. Obsidian

Grip helps teams inventory SaaS apps, OAuth grants, users, and governance status. But in head-to-head customer evaluations, inventory alone wasn’t enough: the data was noisy, usage counts were unreliable, tenants weren’t clearly separated, and reporting still had to be rebuilt for audits, access reviews, or executive updates. Obsidian gives security teams activity-backed visibility across SaaS apps, identities, integrations, and tenants, so they can see what’s actually in use, who owns it, how it’s behaving, and what needs action.

In a SaaS supply chain incident, the SOC needs fast answers: which records were accessed, which identities were affected, how access spread, and which downstream systems were impacted. Obsidian traces the blast radius across the SaaS stack with identity-tied activity, integration context, and data movement visibility, so the SOC can investigate and contain the incident in one place.

Grip’s detection logic is anchored in identity, login anomalies, OAuth grants, browser extensions, and governance signals. Obsidian goes deeper by detecting risky behavior inside business-critical SaaS apps, including session abuse, OAuth misuse, suspicious integration activity, identity-driven attacks, and anomalous activity at runtime. That gives customers detections grounded in what users, apps, integrations, and agents are actually doing.

Customers need SaaS governance data they can trust for access reviews, acquisition hardening, app ownership, audit evidence, and executive reporting. In head-to-head evaluations, Grip surfaced useful inventory, but customers called out noise, questionable account counts, weak tenant separation, and rough reporting. Obsidian helps security teams operationalize the program with real usage context, tenant-aware visibility, posture findings, and reporting that maps to how the business actually governs SaaS.

Obsidian helps security teams turn SaaS risk into a clear narrative for security leaders, auditors, app owners, and executives: what happened, who was involved, which tenants or apps were affected, what data or systems were exposed, and what needs to be remediated. That matters for teams managing UARs, acquisition integration, posture trends, and board-level risk reporting across multiple SaaS environments.

Obsidian is designed for faster time to value with low-tuning detections, production-safe connectors, prioritized findings, and investigation workflows that reduce manual effort. Security teams can move from deployment to actionable SaaS security without building the entire governance model from scratch or manually reconciling noisy inventory into something usable.

Grip includes visual workflows that can push certain configuration fixes, like re-enabling MFA or conditional access. Obsidian’s action policies surface findings, guide response, and support governance workflows today, with automated corrective action as a roadmap input from customer evaluations. The broader customer takeaway was that Obsidian delivered stronger posture context, reporting granularity, usability, and operational value.

99.99% uptime over the last 12 months. Regional hosting across the US, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. Granular RBAC scoped per app. Production-safe connectors with bulk-API support. Obsidian connects to your most critical SaaS apps and collects activity data without disrupting them. Learn more about our certifications and attestations.

They come from real customer evaluations, including Fortune 100 and Global 2000 environments where Obsidian and Grip were evaluated head-to-head or run side-by-side.