Head-to-Head

Reco vs. Obsidian

Reco shows what's connected. Obsidian shows what each connection actually did, with the activity evidence to act.

Reco is a mile wide and an inch deep. They'll claim 200+ apps, but real analytics only exist for a small subset."

— Security Leader, Fortune 50 Bank

Why Obsidian beats Reco

Know how access is actually used

Reco surfaces which SaaS apps and OAuth integrations exist in your environment. Obsidian shows what each identity and integration actually did, when, and what data they touched. One maps the surface. The other shows the activity underneath.

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See the real SaaS supply chain risk, not just the OAuth list

Reco inventories which integrations are connected and the scopes they hold. Obsidian traces what each integration actually accessed, who it affected, and where the blast radius landed. The difference between knowing an integration exists and knowing whether it's a problem.

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Connectors built for production scale

Reco's low-code "SaaS App Factory" prioritizes connector breadth. In one Fortune 50 insurer environment, that design generated nearly 20x more Okta API calls per day than Obsidian. Avoidable load on the SaaS systems your business runs on.

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Reco 101: What it does and where it falls short

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Product Summary

Reco is a SaaS security platform built around fast connector expansion through a low-code "SaaS App Factory," with dashboarding, app-to-app visualization, and OAuth mapping. The design center is breadth: get connectors stood up quickly and present posture, shadow SaaS discovery, and governance views through dashboards. The depth behind each connector and view varies.

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Where Reco falls short under operational pressure:

  • Coverage breadth doesn't match analytical depth. The connector list expanded quickly, but customers report real analytics exist for only a subset of the apps advertised. Beyond baseline patterns like TOR or mass export, activity-based investigations and custom alerting are difficult to build. For the apps where investigation matters most, that gap shows up.
  • Connector design generates higher API load on enterprise apps. In one Fortune 50 insurer environment, Reco generated nearly 20x more Okta API calls per day than Obsidian (~4,800 vs ~260) while retrieving less useful data. The structural design hits hardest on the systems your business depends on.
  • Custom integration flexibility is capped. A SaaS-mature security buyer running Obsidian put it directly during a Reco evaluation: "we can't do that with Reco, they don't support that." When a security program's needs grow beyond the standard playbook, the platform's flexibility caps the team.
  • App, user, and data context precision varies. Customers have reported gaps in how cleanly Reco identifies specific app objects (for example, password vault names) or tracks data movement outside structured workflows. Precise context is what investigations turn on.
  • The AI pivot doesn't fix the bedrock gap. Reco has recently repositioned around agentic AI: inventory, ownership, and access mapping across 225+ apps. The bedrock the agents now run on top of is the same SaaS layer the platform was designed around: connector breadth, with analytical depth that varies by app. Securing agents needs activity-grade visibility into the SaaS apps they reach into. You can't have a real agentic story without understanding the SaaS apps your agents are living off of. A pivot to the agent layer doesn't change what's underneath it.

Why teams choose Obsidian

Obsidian's Knowledge Graph ties identity, permissions, token grants, integrations, and activity together across every connected application. When a third-party vendor is compromised, Obsidian doesn't wait for the disclosure. Network effects mean that signal is already flowing across every environment we protect.

The result is faster investigations, cleaner blast radius attribution, and remediation decisions backed by what actually happened, not what could have.

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”

Reco vs. Obsidian

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Posture with evidence
SaaS supply chain
AI agent security
Connector design
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Reco
Surfaces which configurations and permissions are risky
Inventories OAuth integrations and SaaS-to-SaaS connections
Recent platform repositioning: agent inventory, ownership, access mapping across 225+ apps
"SaaS App Factory" prioritizes coverage breadth; API volume against enterprise apps can run significantly higher
Dashboards and visualization for surface-level review; custom investigations and alerting capped
Identity-linked activity evidence tied to each posture finding, with proof app owners can act on
Traces what each integration accessed, who it affected, and the blast radius across the SaaS stack
Native SaaS activity behind every agent: what each agent's credentials actually reach inside the connected apps, who can invoke it, and what it did at runtime
Production-safe connectors with bulk API support, granular RBAC scoped per app, 99.99% uptime
OQL queries return investigation-ready answers in minutes, with customizable detections and activity-based hunts

Deep SaaS integrations that show real risk

Two different approaches

Reco's bet is connector breadth: the "SaaS App Factory" expands the connector list quickly, with dashboards and visualization layered on top. Coverage volume, with depth varying by app.

Obsidian secures SaaS and AI as one system. It combines SSPM, SaaS Supply Chain Resilience, AI Security Posture Management, and Identity Threat Detection and Response in a single platform, with the visibility, runtime protection, and continuous governance to act across every application, agent, and integration. The bet is enterprise-grade depth: production-safe connectors, identity-linked evidence behind every finding, and detection models tuned on real incident response work.

Reco maps the surface. Obsidian shows the activity underneath.

Why it matters

Visibility without depth fills your queue with findings you can't validate, integrations you can't investigate, and agents you can't audit at runtime. Obsidian's behavioral detections are tuned on 500+ real SaaS incident response engagements, so the signal you're acting on was earned in production. The breach surface lives where the activity is, not where the inventory ends.

FAQs

We need fast, broad SaaS coverage. Why isn't Reco the easier path?

Speed of coverage and depth of coverage aren't the same thing. Reco's low-code model puts a name onto the connector list quickly, but the analytics behind each name vary widely. Obsidian's connectors are enterprise-grade across the apps that matter most: Salesforce, Workday, M365, the IdPs, the AI platforms. Fast coverage on apps you can't investigate doesn't shorten the work. It just moves it downstream.

What about Reco's app-to-app and OAuth visualization?

Mapping which integrations exist is the starting point. Obsidian traces what each integration actually accessed, who triggered it, and where the impact landed. In one global insurer environment running both platforms, Reco showed a malicious Salesforce Data Loader integration was connected. Obsidian identified it as compromised and defined the blast radius. As one Obsidian customer running a Reco side-by-side put it: "at least you guys have the data, you can mature it." The underlying activity model is the moat.

Reco recently repositioned as an AI agent security platform. How is Obsidian different?

Reco's repositioning is around agent inventory, ownership, and access mapping across 225+ apps. That's the surface. The bedrock is what those agents are actually doing inside the connected SaaS apps. Agents authenticate through OAuth tokens and service accounts that reach into Salesforce, Workday, M365, and the rest. The toxic combination (what each agent's credentials reach inside those apps, who can invoke it, what data moved when it ran) forms in the SaaS layer, not the agent layer. Without native SaaS activity, an AI agent platform inventories agents but doesn't see what they're doing. Full argument in The Architecture Gap No AI Agent Security Tool Is Built to Close.

Is Obsidian built for regulated, global environments?

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.

Where do these insights come from?

These aren't AI-generated summaries. They come from real customers — including Fortune 100 and Global 2000 environments — where Obsidian and Reco were evaluated head-to-head.

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