Why customers choose SAFE vs. Obsidian Security
SAFE provides full-spectrum AI Security Posture Management. SAFE AI-SPM enables enterprises to continuously discover, understand, and reduce the cyber risk introduced by AI solutions and enterprise AI adoption.
10% of Fortune 500 put AI to work with SAFE
Why SAFE Wins Vs. Obsidian Security
SAFE is #1 in product capability, outperformed other leaders in practitioner satisfaction by 8%, and secured excellent scores in strategy, product, and market presence.
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Shadow AI Discovery
SAFE combines AI contract intelligence with real-time conflict management, detecting risky clauses and control gaps directly from contracts, APIs, and audit logs; Obsidian has no AI contract analysis capability - it is an SSPM platform, and contract risk is entirely outside its scope.
Outside-in Monitoring
SAFE turns AI vendor questionnaires into continuously validated risk assessments by auto-filling answers from live audit logs and configuration data, assigning risk scores, and verifying vendor claims against real-world signals; Obsidian has no vendor questionnaire capability.
Live Activity Monitoring
SAFE continuously scans the external AI attack surface to identify exposed AI APIs, misconfigured AI endpoints, and externally discoverable AI assets. Obsidian entirely lacks outside-in AI attack surface monitoring and external exposure detection.
Contract Analysis
SAFE continuously validates AI platform security controls such as MFA, ZDR, audit logs, API key rotation and more through direct integrations, while Obsidian focuses on SSPM, permission governance, and configuration monitoring rather than AI platform-specific security.
Questionnaire Assessment
SAFE continuously analyzes OpenAI, Anthropic, Copilot, and other AI platform audit logs for security, conflict detection, usage, and data exposure risks; Obsidian provides strong audit log analytics and behavioral monitoring but does not detect prompt injection, sensitive data exposure in prompts, or cross-dimensional AI risk conflicts.
Configuration Assessment
SAFE discovers Shadow AI across employees and developers, providing visibility into the AI models, projects, and usage, driving organizational risk. While Obsidian focuses on discovering AI applications and agents but lacks the same depth of model-level usage and governance insights.
AI BOM Analysis
SAFE generates a live AI BOM from actual AI platform usage, including model versions, token usage, agents, and AI supply chain risks, while Obsidian focuses on agent inventory and activity visibility but lacks AI dependency and supply chain risk intelligence.
SAFE vs Obsidian Security Overview
SAFE is redefining cyber risk management with Agentic AI. We empower CISOs, cybersecurity, and TPRM leaders to continuously quantify, prioritize, and mitigate cyber risks across their entire attack surface - enabling digital growth and organizational resilience.
SAFE is the category leader in Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) and the first company to deliver 100% autonomous Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).
Trusted by industry leaders including Google, Fidelity, T-Mobile, Chevron, and IHG, SAFE has achieved triple-digit revenue growth for three consecutive years and raised over $170 million to date.
Obsidian Security
Obsidian Security provides a SaaS security posture management (SSPM) and identity threat detection platform with strong capabilities in audit log analytics, user behavior monitoring, and SaaS application governance. It has extended its platform to discover AI applications and agents in use within organizations.
However, Obsidian lacks AI contract analysis, vendor questionnaire capabilities, and outside-in AI attack surface monitoring. Its agent discovery is limited to applications visible through integrations, not the full breadth of AI usage across an enterprise.
Obsidian's AI BOM focuses on agent inventory and activity visibility but lacks AI model dependency analysis, supply chain risk intelligence, and model-version-level vulnerability insights — critical gaps for organizations managing enterprise AI risk at scale.
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