Head-to-Head

Nudge vs. Obsidian

Nudge spots new app sign-ups from email signal. Obsidian shows your SOC what's happening inside the apps your business actually runs on.

Trusted By

300×
increase in AI agent activity, 2025
40%
of agents carry medium-to-critical risk
800+
risky agents in avg enterprise environment
TWO DIFFERENT BETS

Nudge vs. Obsidian

Use Case
Nudge
Discovering shadow SaaS and AI apps
Email-signal discovery of sign-ups and OAuth grants; AI agent discovery in early access
Direct integration with 200+ apps plus browser telemetry across SaaS, AI, and agents
Detecting threats inside sanctioned apps
Not the primary design center
Behavioral detections tuned on 500+ real SaaS incident response engagements
Investigating a SaaS supply chain incident
Email alerts on vendor breach events; OAuth grant inventory
Activity-tied tracing of each integration's access, identity, and data movement across the SaaS stack
Closing an incident end-to-end
Notification and IT-hygiene workflows; investigation pivots to other tools
Investigation, runtime detection, and policy enforcement in one platform
Governing AI agent activity
AI agent discovery in early access; runtime activity and enforcement not surfaced in current product
Discovery, runtime activity context, and policy enforcement
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW

Why Obsidian over Nudge

Depth where the breaches happen

Nudge tells you about new sign-ups and OAuth grants. Obsidian shows your SOC what's happening inside the apps you've already sanctioned: identity, activity, integrations, and data movement.

Detect, don't just discover

Nudge surfaces apps and engages users. Obsidian's detections run continuously inside sanctioned apps, tuned on 500+ real SaaS incident response engagements, catching session abuse, OAuth misuse, and identity threats at runtime.

Close the incident, not just the email alert

Nudge alerts on supply chain events via email. Obsidian traces blast radius across identity, activity, and integrations in one platform, so the SOC closes the incident in one place.
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FAQ

Common questions

Because discovery is only the starting point. Obsidian gives security teams visibility into what’s happening inside the SaaS and AI apps their business actually runs on: identities, activity, integrations, data movement, and agent behavior. That’s how teams move from knowing a tool exists to detecting, investigating, and closing real SaaS incidents.

Yes. Obsidian discovers shadow SaaS and AI through direct integrations with 200+ apps plus browser telemetry, then layers identity, activity, integration, and policy context on top. Discovery is part of the platform, but the real value is what Obsidian does next: runtime detection, identity threat response, integration-risk investigation, and AI agent governance.

Obsidian’s detections run continuously against activity inside sanctioned SaaS apps, tuned on 500+ real SaaS incident response engagements. That means the SOC can see what was accessed, by whom, through which session, token, integration, or agent, and across which downstream systems.

Obsidian ties integrations to identity, activity, and data movement across connected apps. When a third-party app or integration is compromised, the SOC can trace which records were touched, which identities were affected, how access spread, and where the blast radius landed.

Obsidian secures AI agents as part of the broader SaaS control plane. Teams get agent discovery, runtime activity context, and policy enforcement over what agents can access and do inside business-critical apps.

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 insights come from real customer evaluations where Obsidian and Nudge were evaluated head-to-head.