CrowdStrike Falcon Shield vs Obsidian Security

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Obsidian Security provides visibility, governance, and runtime controls for AI agents, identities, and integrations across third-party applications. Its AI security capabilities include agent visibility and governance, runtime security, and AI security posture management. The Free plan covers up to 1K users and includes discovery of app sprawl, unsanctioned AI, and shadow SaaS, plus spear-phishing detection without manual tuning. Foundations covers discovery and governance; Advanced adds detection, proactive defense, and incident response. No plan prices are stated, and both Foundations and Advanced require a quote. Advanced lists detection for account takeover, session hijacking, insider risk, misuse, sensitive data exposure, and API or token compromise. The AI Assistant is designed to explain rules, triage threats, manage exceptions, and provide security steps. The web platform has hundreds of validated connectors, with examples including Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, Google Workspace, GitHub, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake. Organizations can build custom connectors hosted on the platform. Obsidian serves Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 organizations. A free trial requires no credit card, but no duration is stated.