Obsidian Security vs Varonis SSPM

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.

Varonis SSPM is a web-based security posture management platform for SaaS, IaaS, file storage, and hybrid environments. It continuously scans configurations, explains why settings are risky, and provides remediation guidance. The platform can automatically fix risky misconfigurations and remove selected third-party apps or users. It discovers sanctioned and unsanctioned applications and monitors SaaS, IaaS, and file storage from one console. A searchable forensic audit trail covers data access, permission changes, link sharing, email activity, and authentication events. Varonis says it builds a behavior baseline for each user and responds to threats with 24x7x365 MDDR coverage. Listed integrations include Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Google Cloud, Salesforce, Box, AWS, Azure, Databricks, and ServiceNow. Posture measurement references HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, NIST, and ITAR. Varonis states that customer metadata is encrypted in storage and transfer, and that its cloud offerings undergo independent external audits. Pricing is by quote, with a demo requested.