As employees rapidly adopt SaaS and AI tools, enable embedded AI features, and create app-to-app integrations, conventional SSPM tools that rely solely on APIs and network traffic fall short. Nudge Security modernizes SSPM for today’s SaaS- and AI-heavy reality, delivering continuous posture insights and automated, last-mile remediation workflows for every SaaS and AI app in your environment.
Nudge Security delivers perimeterless SaaS security posture management (SSPM) functionality designed for modern SaaS- and AI-driven environments.
Nudge Security overcomes the limitations of API- and network-based approaches to deliver SaaS and AI security posture visibility within hours, not months, without agents, proxies, or complex network controls.
By combining insights from multiple vantage points, Nudge Security continuously surfaces posture risks across managed and shadow apps, non-human identities, integrations, and sensitive data flows.
Nudge Security closes the gap between finding and fixing risks with automated last-mile remediation workflows for every app, avoiding the backlog of manual work that’s often left when automation stops at what’s supported by an API.
Learn more about SSPM with Nudge Security.
SaaS security posture management (SSPM) describes the processes and technologies used to continuously ensure that enterprise SaaS apps are deployed, configured, and used in highly secure, compliant ways to satisfy an organization’s needs and policies.
SSPM solutions commonly address misconfigurations, compliance issues, and risks associated with SaaS identities, data exposure, and integrations.
Standalone SSPM providers typically rely on an API-based approach, while mature CASB and SASE vendors often combine out-of-band (API-based) and in-line network monitoring, offering SSPM capabilities as a feature set within a larger security service edge solution.
Sample standalone SSPM vendors include Adaptive Shield, AppOmni, DoControl, and Obsidian.
Nudge Security
True shadow SaaS discovery. Our patented approach  combines multiple vantage points to shadow SaaS and AI within minutes of activation, including unsanctioned apps, duplicate tenants, free accounts, and unmanaged usage within hours of activation.
SSPM
Peer behind the marketing claims and you’ll learn that “shadow SaaS” discovery with an SSPM is limited to the apps you already know about. And for apps without an API integration, you see nothing.
Nudge Security
Perimeterless SSPM coverage across 200k+ unique SaaS and AI apps, delivered the moment they’re discovered, with more added constantly. APIs add depth, not baseline coverage.
SSPM
Dozens to hundreds of APIs for select enterprise SaaS apps. Coverage for the other thousands of apps in your estate, like emerging AI tools? You’ll need to fill out an integration request form online.
Nudge Security
Meaningful visibility and posture insights in hours, with progressive depth added over time. No long integration projects required to start reducing risk.
SSPM
Weeks or months before coverage is meaningful, as value is gated behind per-app API integrations and configuration work.
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.
SSPM
Highly permissive access is required to write / delete data in your business-critical SaaS apps. Automation is brittle, inconsistent across vendors, and limited to a small set of apps
Nudge Security
Cross-app visibility into users, accounts, SSO/MFA coverage, shared and unused accounts, even for apps without APIs. Identity is treated as a first-class posture signal.
SSPM
Identity insights are limited to integrated apps. No visibility into unmanaged accounts or access outside supported platforms.
Nudge Security
Discover and assess OAuth grants, API keys, service accounts, agents, and app-to-app integrations, including AI and MCP connections, with workflows to review and revoke risk.
SSPM
Partial visibility only where APIs exist. Non-human identities and integrations outside supported apps are often missed entirely.
Nudge Security
Continuous vendor risk, supply-chain insights, and breach alerts across the entire SaaS and AI estate, enriching posture findings with real-world context.
SSPM
No integration? No insights. Without API access, SSPMs don’t deliver additional insights or security context.
Nudge Security
Last-mile automation that scales. Automated, human-in-the-loop remediation workflows for every app, with or without APIs. Engage the right owners, guide fixes, and verify completion.
Nudge Security
Limited automation. Once again, SSPM providers only deliver automation for a limited number of supported apps. When human decisions are needed, findings turn into manual tickets and unresolved backlogs.
Nudge Security
Engage SaaS owners and users to adopt the tech they need safely and in compliance with your policies—without disrupting productivity.
Nudge Security
Perpetuate the falsehood that security can and should only be handled by a small group of overextended security pros working behind the scenes.
Nudge Security
Satisfy all your SaaS governance needs across security, IT, operations, legal, and finance on one central platform at a comparable cost to SSPM.
Nudge Security
Waste time and money reconciling SaaS asset inventories and operations across multiple, redundant solutions purpose-built for SaaS security vs. HR vs. finance vs. compliance.
Traditional SSPMs suffer the same design flaw as CASBs and SPMs: they start in the middle of the problem. Before you can realize any value from an SSPM solution, you must first (1) know what SaaS and AI apps are being used in your organization and (2) connect to each one by API, provided that the vendor supports the integration. This carries the following limitations:Traditional SSPMs suffer the same design flaw as CASBs and SPMs: they start in the middle of the problem. Before you can realize any value from an SSPM solution, you must first (1) know what SaaS applications are being used in your organization and (2) connect to each one by API, provided that the vendor supports the integration. This carries the following limitations:
‍
‍Knowing the unknown
Most IT and security teams don’t have a complete view of the SaaS and AI tools in use across their organization. Employees sign up for new apps daily, enable embedded AI features, connect third-party tools, and create additional tenants outside of procurement or SSO. Building an accurate inventory often requires weeks or months of piecing together network logs, expense data, and anecdotal evidence—and even then, blind spots remain. Shadow SaaS and shadow AI aren’t edge cases anymore; they’re the norm. First and foremost, most IT and security leaders simply don’t know what all SaaS applications are being used across their organizations. Building a complete SaaS application inventory can take weeks to months of mining network traffic logs, expense reports, or Slack threads to uncover unknown and unsanctioned SaaS use. And yet still, blind spots remain.
‍
‍The narrow scope of your SSPM
Even if you had a complete list of all your SaaS and AI apps, an SSPM solution is likely to only support a small fraction of them. That’s because SSPM solutions rely on a direct API integration with each SaaS application in order to monitor events, users, and activities within that SaaS environment, not unlike the approach a modern SIEM takes in order to ingest user activity logs from SaaS apps. This not only creates a significant amount of upfront integration work, delaying any return on investment, but it also means that your SaaS security posture management can only extend as far as any given SSPM vendor’s set of available APIs. What’s more, the automated configuration management features of SSPM require highly permissive access to your business-critical SaaS apps, effectively giving a third party startup the keys to your SaaS kingdom. Even if you had a complete list of all your SaaS applications, an SSPM solution is likely to only support a small fraction of them. That’s because SSPM solutions rely on a direct API integration with each SaaS application in order to monitor events, users, and activities within that SaaS environment, not unlike the approach a modern SIEM takes in order to ingest user activity logs from SaaS applications. This not only creates a significant amount of upfront integration work, delaying any return on investment, but it also means that your SaaS security posture management can only extend as far as any given SSPM vendor’s set of available APIs. What’s more, the automated configuration management features of SSPM require highly permissive access to your business-critical SaaS applications, effectively giving a third party startup the keys to your SaaS kingdom.
Growing gaps in your SaaS security
Look at any SSPM vendor website and you’ll find a finite list of a dozen or perhaps even a hundred or so supported SaaS apps, often including Microsoft 365, Google Workspaces, Salesforce, Workday, and other high-profile enterprise SaaS apps. A simple request form acts as a catch-all for the other tens of thousands of possible B2B SaaS apps your workforce may actually be using. New and novel SaaS apps, such as emerging GenAI apps, go unsupported for months after market availability, leaving critical gaps in your SaaS security posture.
The ultimate vision and promise of SSPM is to create a federated system of SaaS configuration management, with flexible, automated workflows that effortlessly eliminate permission drift and prevent data loss across your entire SaaS estate without end user interference. This is a pipe dream.
SaaS security configurations are too varied by application and SaaS administration is too decentralized to fully automate. The head of marketing operations administers Hubspot and allocates seats to sales and marketing folks as needed. UX owns your Figma instance and the product prototypes in it. The first person to experiment with Notion now acts as the technical contact for your organization’s Wiki, but didn’t budget for Business edition that supports SAML SSO. These non-IT SaaS admins must make highly contextual, highly dynamic decisions about who and what can access these apps and how, often without consulting their IT or security counterparts.
Using only an API-based approach, there’s no feasible way to automate away all of the human decision-making involved in SaaS governance and security, and certainly not across the tens of thousands of B2B SaaS apps used today.
Fortunately, with Nudge Security, you don’t have to.
Nudge Security delivers perimeterless SaaS security posture management across the entire SaaS and AI app in your environment, using every tool at our disposal to surface security posture risks across unmanaged apps, emerging AI tools, integrations, non-human identities, and sensitive data flows. For Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Okta, Slack, Zoom, Github, and other high-priority apps, Nudge Security enables deeper posture checks to monitor vendor-specific risks and misconfigurations.
Instead of trying to eliminate the “human in the loop,” Nudge Security harnesses the human intelligence of your workforce to enable automated, end-to-end remediation for the long tail of SaaS and AI tools in your environment, with or without an API integration. This not only enables an infinitely scalable solution, but it also offers the benefits of influencing positive security behaviors and promoting an organizational culture of transparency and personal responsibility.
By avoiding the diminishing returns of relying solely on an API-based approach, Nudge Security offers a near-immediate time to value with every setup, and is able to surface security posture risks for over 200,000 apps the moment they’re introduced, with more discovered every day. Discover the advantages of Nudge Security:
In a matter of minutes, Nudge Security discovers your entire SaaS and AI estate: known and unknown apps, SaaS identities, shadow AI, MFA and SSO status, non-human identities, app-to-app integrations, browser extensions, user activities, and much more. Learn more
Harden your identity infrastructure by scanning Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Okta, and other critical identity apps for security posture risks, while continuously monitoring the rest of your SaaS and AI estate for identity risks such as unused or shared accounts, weak authentication, risky integrations, and excessive access. Learn more
Modern SaaS security can’t be solved by security teams alone. Nudge Security works with your workforce—not against it—by routing posture risks to the people closest to the apps and decisions. Automated, human-in-the-loop workflows deliver timely nudges, guidance, and approvals through familiar tools, helping employees take simple, effective actions that improve security without slowing the business. Learn more
Nudge Security helps you manage and secure 100% of your SaaS and AI attack surface, not just the small fraction of apps that support deep integrations. Nudge Security classifies and prioritizes high-value SaaS apps, delivers security profiles and OAuth risk scores, and alerts you to third-party breaches affecting your suppliers. Security posture events can be forwarded to SIEM and analytics tools, ensuring SaaS and AI risk is integrated into your broader security operations as your environment evolves. Learn more
In a world of distributed teams, the tools of the past simply can’t find shadow IT.
Network monitoring and expense report analysis simply don’t work. The perfect side-channel attack on Shadow IT? Your inbox.
Why applying the concepts of zero trust broadly to employees is a dangerous mistake for cybersecurity programs.
