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Reco vs. Obsidian Security

Reco shows you that a third-party app was connected. Obsidian shows you what it could access, who it affected, and how far the risk spread.

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Reco vs. Obsidian

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

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— Security Leader, Fortune 50 Bank

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Reco
Flags potential risk. Can't prove what data was accessed or what an identity actually did.
Confirms integrations exist. Can't define blast radius, detect toxic combinations, or determine if a connection is active or compromised.
Discovers AI tools. Can't show which agent actions create risk as they happen.
Enterprise buyers have reported rate limit errors and production instability tied to high API call volumes. Regional hosting not publicly documented.
Identity-linked evidence tied to every access event. Remediate with proof, not assumptions.
Detects toxic combinations and traces lateral movement across apps. Shows what happened and how far it reached.
Detects risky agent behavior at runtime. Every action is tied to an identity. Improves as more enterprises onboard.
Connects to critical systems without touching production.  99.99% uptime over the last 12 months. . Regional hosting in the US, Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Australia.

Deep SaaS integrations that show real risk

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Microsoft 365
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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 application discovery, identity posture, and configuration risk. It helps security teams inventory connected applications, map OAuth grants, and surface permission exposure across their SaaS environment.

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What teams use Reco for:

  • Inventorying connected SaaS applications and OAuth grants
  • Identifying user access and permission exposure 
  • Surfacing misconfiguration findings
  • Generating AI-based remediation summaries
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Where Reco falls short:

Reco can tell you a connection exists. It can't tell you if it's compromised, what it accessed, or how far the risk spread. When an incident happens, your team is left without the evidence to reconstruct what actually occurred.

  • Struggles to determine if a connected integration is actively compromised
  • Limited ability to trace lateral movement across applications with identity-linked context
  • Blast radius remains undefined when a third-party app or OAuth token is abused
  • Investigation workflows require exporting data to another tool to get answers
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Why it matters for your security team:

SaaS and AI attacks move through legitimate access: OAuth tokens granted months ago, dormant integrations, permissions that survived offboarding. A platform that maps what's connected but can't show what it did leaves your team blind at the moment it matters most.

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”

Why Security Teams Choose Obsidian

Detections powering the Fortune 100, applied to you

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.

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See the risks others miss

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.

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Built for environments where downtime isn’t an option

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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Trusted by the most innovative security teams

Securing SaaS is different. We're operating within a partner's infrastructure, and getting the knobs and dials right across many platforms is critical. Obsidian gives us the visibility and control to do exactly that, helping us get ahead of issues before they become problems.
Mark Clancy, CISO
Obsidian gives us insights and understanding of what privilege has been granted to other third parties. We make certain that we have a clear line of sight or get rid of those connections that don't have appropriate business use.
Brad Jones, CISO
Ensuring the security and availability of our data has become absolutely essential. Knowing our data is now better protected on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud with Obsidian Security is a strong endorsement for growing our adoption of Snowflake.
Ravi Chinni, Global Head of Identity and Access Management
Obsidian’s end-to-end SaaS Supply Chain security provides the proactive visibility organizations need to stay ahead of emerging threats.
Grace Liu, CIO

Reco vs. Obsidian FAQs

What does Reco miss that Obsidian catches?

Reco tells you an integration exists. Obsidian tells you what it did: when it accessed data, what it touched, and whether its behavior indicates compromise. That difference determines whether your team can close an investigation or just open a ticket.

Why does investigation depth matter if both platforms offer broad SaaS coverage?

Coverage tells you what's in your environment. Investigation depth tells you what's happening in it. An app on a list gives you inventory. An app with rich behavioral data gives you the answer your board is asking for the morning after a breach. In a head-to-head at a top global insurer, Reco saw the malicious integration. Obsidian determined it was compromised and scoped the damage.

How does activity data change the outcome in a real supply chain incident?

When a third-party integration is compromised, your team needs to know which identities were affected, what data was accessed, and how far the access spread. Obsidian traces the full blast radius across your SaaS stack. At a top global insurer, Reco confirmed the integration was present. Obsidian confirmed it was actively malicious and defined the downstream impact. Those aren't the same answer.

Does Reco have the detection intelligence to catch sophisticated attacks?

Reco isn't deployed at the scale or complexity of environments where the most sophisticated attacks play out. That limits the detection intelligence it can build. Obsidian protects 2 of the 5 biggest US banks, the world's largest energy company, and the world's largest hospitality provider. Every real attack across that network sharpens the detections running in your environment. You're not just buying a tool. You're buying intelligence earned from the hardest targets in the world.

How does Reco hold up during a live incident investigation?

In a competitive evaluation at a high-growth SaaS company dealing with active supply chain breaches via Drift and Gainsight, Reco's initial evaluation looked promising. It broke down when mapped to their actual incident. Customizing alerts and building evidence-based investigations wasn't possible at the depth required. Obsidian was chosen on investigation depth and enterprise maturity.

Does Reco support data residency and regional hosting requirements?

Reco's regional hosting options aren't publicly documented. For security teams operating in regulated industries or across multiple geographies, that's not a minor gap. Data residency requirements aren't negotiable, and a vendor that can't answer the question clearly is a risk in itself.

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. Production-safe connectors built for complex, compliance-driven environments. In a head-to-head at a top global insurer, Reco generated nearly 20x more Okta API calls per day while retrieving less useful data. Obsidian connects to your most critical systems without disrupting them.

Where do these insights come from?

These aren't AI-generated summaries. They come from real buyers — security leaders who evaluated both platforms in their own production environments.

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