Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks vs Veza SSPM

Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks is a cloud infrastructure entitlement management product for finding and reducing identity risks. It scans AWS, Azure, and GCP for lingering administrative privileges, privilege escalation, permission gaps, broad blast radii, and cross-account access. Detections cover users, roles, groups, policies, EC2 instances, and Lambda functions. Access Insights shows which resources an entity can reach and which principals can reach them directly or indirectly. Remediation options include narrower policy suggestions, Datadog Workflows, cloud-console links, Terraform-generated GitHub pull requests, and Jira issues. AWS IAM Access Analyzer can supply unused-access findings for policy recommendations and permission-gap detections. Scanning is agentless, and Datadog says snapshots remain within the customer environment. Standard permission-gap detections cover 90 days; Access Analyzer can use 180- or 360-day periods. CSM Pro costs $10 a month per CSM host, while Enterprise costs $25 a month per host. A 14-day trial covers the product suite.

Veza SSPM governs identity access, permissions, and configuration risks across SaaS applications in real time. It continuously discovers users, administrators, and service accounts across major SaaS platforms, then flags settings such as missing MFA, exposed OAuth tokens, and open administrator privileges. Role-based context helps identify overprivileged identities, which the product can remediate. Connections with IAM, IGA, and ITSM platforms support issue resolution and automated governance workflows. Veza generates real-time, audit-ready reports describing access governance across SaaS applications. Its integration catalog spans SaaS, identity, cloud, data, and HR systems; examples include Okta, OpenAI, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, and Google Drive. The Open Authorization API provides a route for custom application connections. Veza states that SSPM has SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications and complies with GDPR and CCPA. It is offered through web and API access, with pricing and custom demonstrations handled by request.