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.

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Valence and Reco really just strictly focus on the configuration management problem."

— Security Leader, Enterprise Insurance Buyer

Why Obsidian beats Valence

Activity data, not just configuration state

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.

Behavioral detection trained on real incidents

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.

Investigation and remediation across one Knowledge Graph

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 Security vs. Obsidian

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Source of SaaS data
Threat detection model
Investigation workflow
SaaS supply chain
Platform scope
Valence Security
Configuration posture, OAuth grant inventory, drift signals
Posture drift, policy violations, OAuth governance alerts
Posture findings as input to investigation in other tools
OAuth grant inventory and workflow governance
SSPM with remediation workflows and app-owner collaboration
Native SaaS activity collected from inside the apps, identity-linked at the action level
Behavioral detections tuned on 500+ real SaaS incident response engagements
Identity, activity, and integrations in one Knowledge Graph
Traces what each integration accessed, who it affected, and the blast radius across the SaaS estate
SSPM, SaaS Supply Chain Resilience, AISPM, and ITDR in one platform

Trusted by the most innovative security teams

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

Two different categories

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.

FAQs

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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