Wondering how Nudge Security stacks up against other SaaS and AI security solutions? Learn why modern IT & security teams are turning to Nudge Security for a complete SaaS security and governance solution.
Nudge Security delivers a comprehensive SaaS security and AI governance platform for modern, cloud-first organizations, with capabilities spanning SaaS discovery, SSPM, third-party risk, spend management, identity governance, and more.
Our industry-leading discovery capabilities deliver unparalleled visibility into your entire SaaS ecosystem within hours—not weeks—revealing shadow IT, historical app usage, and emerging AI tools that other solutions miss.
By combining this comprehensive inventory with contextual risk data and supply chain intelligence, Nudge Security empowers cross-functional teams to manage security, compliance, and spending concerns.
Our human-centered approach engages employees with in-the-moment guidance and guardrails that make secure SaaS behavior the path of least resistance, reducing friction between security teams and the business units they support.
Other solutions cover a fraction of what Nudge Security offers:
‍SaaS management platforms (SMPs) centralize and automate SaaS app management for IT, finance, and operations teams.
‍Cloud access security brokers (CASBs) sit between SaaS apps and SaaS users to enforce security policies related to how apps are accessed as one component of SASE or SSE platforms.
‍SaaS security posture management (SSPM) ensures enterprise SaaS apps are deployed, configured, and used in secure, compliant ways.
‍Browser-centric security solutions use the browser as the main point of SaaS discovery, security monitoring, and policy enforcement.
AI security solutions target specific generative AI risks like shadow AI and data loss, often with a fragmented "all things AI" approach.
Nudge Security
Gain full SaaS & AI visibility on Day One. Our patented, perimeterless approach offers unrivaled visibility of all SaaS and AI use within minutes of activation, including unsanctioned apps, duplicate instances, historical use, adoption trends, and risk insights.
Competing alternatives
Peer behind the marketing claims and you’ll learn that “shadow SaaS” discovery often relies on limited, low-fi network traffic inspection, point-in-time forward browser sessions, or apps and data sources you already know about—leaving you with significant shadow SaaS and AI blind spots.
Nudge Security
180,000+ unique SaaS & AI apps to date, with automations and on-demand security profiles for every vendor—including newly-created apps and obscure genAI tools, with no waiting or prior knowledge required. Align to business-led IT adoption trends and distribute SaaS admin tasks to business owners with centralized IT oversight and governance.
Competing alternatives
Limited reach to dozens or hundreds of known enterprise SaaS apps via API, or browser-based coverage that lacks critical components of SaaS security such as surfacing former employees with lingering access, admin account sprawl, and configuration drift for business critical apps. New AI tool? You’ll need to wait for the vendor to add it to the supported catalog.
Nudge Security
Enable productivity, don’t block it. Our modern, human-centric approach engages SaaS owners and users where work happens (Slack, browser, or email) using just-in-time guardrails that guide employee behavior without impacting workflows.
Competing alternatives
Frustrate and slow down employees with lock-and-block controls that make it more likely that employees will pursue shadowy workarounds, instead of providing nuanced guardrails when and where it matters. Read the research on nudging →
Nudge Security
Know the true cost of SaaS sprawl. Only Nudge Security shows you what you don’t already know about SaaS spend. Discover shadow spend, forecast SaaS expenses based on actual usage, and surface opportunities for savings, from consolidating redundant apps to trimming unused licenses.
Competing alternatives
Be the last to know about SaaS spend. If a SaaS expense isn’t already itemized in your finance or procurement system, it may as well not exist. SaaS subscriptions can easily sneak through on credit cards or catch you by surprise when a freemium Shadow SaaS tool levels up to a paid usage tier.
Nudge Security
Manage your SaaS attack surface with in-depth SaaS vendor risk profiles and supply chain breach alerts. Quickly surface and revoke risky third-party SaaS access.
Competing alternatives
Start the hunt for other solutions to address third-party risk management, SaaS attack surface management, and SaaS-to-SaaS supply chain security.
Nudge Security
Our scalable, lightweight approach aligns to the reality of how SaaS apps are configured and managed, which often requires real human decision-making.
Competing alternatives
Highly permissive access is required to write / delete data in your business-critical SaaS apps. You'll have to build complex workflows to automate even basic configs for supported apps.
Nudge Security
Automated workflows and interventions available out of the box for every app, from your CRM to that AI tool your users signed up for yesterday.
Competing alternatives
Build workflows before any work flows. While some providers offer highly customizable workflow builders, they require complex configuration work.
Nudge Security
Full day-one inventory. Take advantage of your complete SaaS inventory within hours after setup. Add an additional layer with our browser extension designed for self-service deployment.
Competing alternatives
Delay critical decision making weeks to months until you finish deployment and gather enough data to analyze user behaviors.
Nudge Security
Comprehensive SaaS security and pricing. Address SaaS security, AI governance, third-party risk management, and SaaS spend management with one affordable solution.
Competing alternatives
Pay for a fragmented solution. Individual point solutions aren’t built to cover your SaaS and AI governance needs. You may end up paying more for multiple overlapping solutions.
Despite significant investments in identity, data governance, and third-party risk management, security programs are falling behind as business demands accelerate. The core issue is that your employees use the internet for work, and the modern internet actively encourages experimentation with new SaaS and AI tools—often bypassing traditional approval processes.
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Modern technology adoption happens at the Workforce Edge.
‍Over 90% of apps are now adopted outside of IT's purview. This creates what we call the Workforce Edge: countless decentralized decisions about which apps enter your organization, how they're configured, and how data flows between them. This edge is where your security policies are either followed or forgotten. Without proper oversight and governance, this edge becomes a major source of risk and sprawl.
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Threat actors are already exploiting this expanded attack surface.
‍IT and security teams face unprecedented challenges in maintaining visibility of—let alone staying ahead of—all the decisions happening at the workforce edge.
Threat actors understand these visibility gaps and are increasingly exploiting them, as seen in recent high-profile breaches affecting customers of Okta, Snowflake, and Cloudflare.
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Legacy approaches can’t see it—let alone solve it.
‍Meanwhile, traditional security approaches—from SSO to network controls—are proving inadequate for this new reality. Legacy controls like CASB and SSPM only address apps you already know about, while employees routinely bypass blocking controls (69% admitted to this in a 2022 Gartner survey). Even SSO solutions fall short on data governance and vendor security. The fundamental problem is that these approaches haven't adapted to democratized technology adoption in today's workplace.
Nudge Security helps organizations discover and secure their Workforce Edge. We begin by providing complete visibility of the decisions your employees are making: no matter the network, device, or location. We then use this information, along with your company's own policies, to deliver just-in-time, automated guardrails for safe, compliant app use.
This creates a powerful dynamic that allows your workforce to move quickly and stay productive while providing the necessary oversight and controls to effectively manage risk and prevent SaaS sprawl.
The result is a more resilient organization where security becomes a natural part of how work gets done, rather than an obstacle to overcome.
