Considering an enterprise browser or extension-based security solution? Learn how Nudge Security delivers browser-based security as part of the industry’s most comprehensive approach to SaaS security and governance.
Nudge Security is a perimeterless SaaS security and AI governance platform for modern, cloud-first organizations.
Our multi-layered approach to SaaS discovery and monitoring delivers both historical and real-time visibility into SaaS and GenAI activities through email analysis, direct API integrations with SSO and SaaS providers, and a lightweight browser extension.
With this comprehensive SaaS inventory, Nudge Security surfaces and prioritizes risks related to third-party suppliers, identities and access, app misconfigurations, and data exposure.
Automated nudges engage your workforce and app owners where work happens: in the browser, on Slack, or email, providing just-in-time guardrails for safe, compliant SaaS use.
Browser-centric security solutions focus on the browser as the primary point of SaaS discovery, security monitoring, and policy enforcement.
These solutions monitor real-time employee activities like app logins, data sharing, and more. They enforce security policies by blocking access to certain sites or restricting browser actions.
Browser solutions typically fall into one of two categories: secure enterprise browsers (SEB) such as Island, Palo Alto Networks (Talon), LayerX, or a browser extension deployed across Chrome, Edge, and other supported browsers. Sample vendors include Beamy and Push Security. Some vendors also position their solutions as identity threat detection and response (ITDR).
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Gain full SaaS visibility on Day One. Don't wait for data to start coming in. Nudge Security uses an email-based discovery approach which provides a full, continuously updated inventory of every SaaS app and account within minutes of starting a free trial.
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Point-in-time forward only. Solutions that rely solely on the browser for SaaS discovery provide little to no historical SaaS context, leaving you in the dark until an employee logs into an app through the browser. If they use a personal device or haven’t logged in in months, you might be missing out.
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SaaS governance when and where work happens. Nudge Security combines email discovery, browser activity, and API connections to deliver complete SaaS visibility across your entire estate, uncovering shadow SaaS, risks, misconfigurations, and data exposure.
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Limit your reach. Solutions that rely only on a browser extension lack critical components of SaaS security like surfacing former employees with lingering access, admin account sprawl, configuration drift for business critical apps, and more.
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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.
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Frustrate and slow down employees. Most browser-centric solutions simply block employee actions and access, making it more likely that employees will pursue shadowy workarounds, instead of providing nuanced guardrails when and where it matters.
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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.
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Wait for an incomplete inventory. Solely relying on a browser extension to build your SaaS inventory over time means you could miss critical risks and findings that leave you vulnerable.
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Comprehensive SaaS security and pricing. Address SaaS security, AI governance, third-party risk management, and SaaS spend management with one affordable solution.
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Pay for a fragmented solution. Browser-based security isn’t enough for comprehensive SaaS security. You’ll end up paying for multiple solutions and end up with SaaS redundancies and excess spend.
Today’s work happens in the browser. This has led to a rise in browser-centric security offerings like lightweight browser extensions and enterprise browser solutions. Both promise the ability to manage SaaS activity using the browser as an enforcement point.
However, by relying solely on browser activity, these solutions often result in either weaker detection capabilities from using browser history alone or, in the case of enterprise browsers, intrusive employee monitoring that tarnishes employee trust.
These solutions are forward-looking only; they don't start with complete, historical SaaS discovery, which shows you what exists in your environment and where data could potentially live on Day One. Instead, you are left in the dark until new browser activity occurs.
Most of these solutions rely on hard blocking and activity restriction techniques that disrupt employee workflows and hinder productivity. When employees come up against these methods, they’ll find workarounds.
Rather than taking a narrow approach to SaaS visibility and an aggressive approach to enforcement, organizations should adopt a layered approach to SaaS security that fits in seamlessly to existing workflows and meets employees where they work to guide them toward safe security decisions.
Nudge Security discovers your entire existing SaaS estate within minutes through email discovery and continuously builds and enriches it through real-time browser-based user data and additional SaaS discovery methods. Learn more
Addressing SaaS security through the relevant vantage points of email inboxes, API connections, and browser extensions builds a stronger SaaS inventory. We’ll enhance this with proprietary intelligence and insights to surface high priority areas of risk and policy infractions.
Engage with your employees using just-in-time interventions to actively guide them toward more compliant SaaS decision making wherever they are: the browser, Slack, or email. Learn more
