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 is built for configuration-management-led programs: posture cleanup, OAuth grant governance, business-user remediation workflows via Slack and email, and app inventory. If the program is anchored on cleaning up posture and operationalizing remediation, Valence's product depth concentrates there. The gap is everything around the configuration management problem. SaaS threats don't only show up as misconfigurations, and closing an incident takes activity data Valence isn't designed around.
Valence's in-platform remediation workflows and app-owner collaboration via Slack and email are core to its design. Obsidian surfaces findings and uses action policies to drive remediation across the SOC's existing tools (ServiceNow, identity providers, ticketing); auto-execution of configuration fixes is in development. If business-user remediation workflow is the top buying priority, Valence's product depth lands directly there.
When the program scope extends past configuration management into runtime SaaS threat detection, integration-risk investigation, AI security, and identity threat response. Obsidian's platform spans SSPM, SaaS Supply Chain Resilience, AISPM, and ITDR together, with activity data and behavioral detection that posture-anchored signal can't provide.
Obsidian traces each integration to identity, activity, and data movement across the connected apps. When a third-party integration is compromised, the SOC sees which records the integration touched, which identities were affected, and how access spread across downstream systems.
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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