HEAD-TO-HEAD
Valence vs. Obsidian
Valence flags risky SaaS configurations and OAuth tokens. Obsidian shows what those tokens and integrations actually did, with the activity evidence to act.
Valence's signal is posture state and OAuth grant inventory. Obsidian collects activity from inside the apps: identity-tied actions, role movements, data access, token use. One tells you what's misconfigured. The other tells you what's actually happening.
Valence's design center is configuration drift and policy violations. Obsidian's behavioral detections are tuned on 500+ real SaaS incident response engagements, catching session abuse, OAuth misuse, and identity threats as they happen inside the apps.
Valence findings feed investigation in other tools. Obsidian ties identity, activity, and integrations together in one Knowledge Graph, so the SOC sees who acted across which apps and closes the incident without pivoting out.
Valence is a SaaS Security Posture Management platform built around configuration posture, OAuth governance, SaaS-to-SaaS integration inventory, and remediation workflows. The design center is operational cleanup: posture findings routed to app owners via Slack and email, OAuth grant inventory and pre-vetting, agentless integrations across apps like M365, Salesforce, Workday, and Google Workspace. SaaS threats that don't show up as misconfigurations sit outside that center of gravity.
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.
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Valence is an SSPM platform. The center of gravity is configuration management: posture cleanup, OAuth grant governance, business-user remediation workflows, and app inventory.
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. SSPM is one pillar, not the whole platform.
Valence cleans up configuration. Obsidian closes SaaS incidents.
Why it matters
Posture cleanup is the start of SaaS security, not the end. The breach surface lives in what's happening inside the apps: who's acting, with which identity, against which data, across which integrations. Obsidian's behavioral detections come from 500+ real SaaS incident response engagements, with identity-linked activity behind every finding. SSPM is the floor, not the ceiling.
Valence helps teams manage SaaS configuration posture, OAuth grants, remediation workflows, and app inventory. But configuration state alone doesn’t answer the questions the SOC needs during an incident: who acted, which identity was used, what data was accessed, which integrations were involved, and where access spread. Obsidian gives security teams activity-backed visibility across identities, permissions, tokens, integrations, and actions, so they can move from posture cleanup to continuous governance, investigation, and response.
Posture findings tell you what’s misconfigured. Activity data tells you what actually happened. Obsidian collects identity-tied activity from inside the apps, so security teams can see role changes, data access, token use, integration behavior, and anomalous actions in context.
Valence is centered on configuration drift, policy violations, OAuth governance, and remediation workflows. Obsidian detects risky behavior inside business-critical SaaS apps, including session abuse, OAuth misuse, suspicious integration activity, identity threats, and anomalous activity at runtime.
When a third-party app or integration is compromised, the SOC needs to know what the integration accessed, which users or identities were affected, and how far the impact spread. Obsidian traces that blast radius across the SaaS estate by tying identity, activity, permissions, token grants, and integrations together in one Knowledge Graph.
Obsidian gives the SOC investigation context in one place: who acted, what changed, what data was touched, which apps were involved, and what needs remediation. That reduces pivots across posture tools, identity tools, logs, tickets, and app-owner workflows.
Posture cleanup is necessary, but it’s not enough to secure SaaS at runtime. Obsidian brings continuous governance, SaaS supply chain resilience, AI security posture management, and identity threat detection and response together in one platform, giving teams runtime protection across apps, agents, integrations, and identities.
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.
These aren't AI-generated summaries. They come from real customers — including Fortune 100 and Global 2000 environments — where Obsidian and Valence were evaluated head-to-head.
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