✦ A new paradigm · The Workforce Edge

Your employees make thousands of tech decisions every day. That's your biggest security asset.

The Workforce Edge is where modern work actually happens — every SaaS signup, every AI prompt, every OAuth grant. It's your fastest-growing attack surface, and the one place legacy tools can't reach.

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The shift

Security used to protect a perimeter. Now there isn't one.

Three decades of enterprise security were built around a simple idea: control the boundary, control the risk. But the boundary dissolved — and every employee became their own IT department.

The network edge

Firewalls, VPNs, on-prem servers. IT controlled every device and connection. Risk lived at the boundary, and the boundary was a building.

~1995–2010

The cloud edge

SaaS, BYOD, remote work. Identity became the new perimeter — but only for the apps IT already knew about and managed.

~2010–2020

The workforce edge

Every employee adopts SaaS and AI independently. Risk lives in thousands of decentralized human decisions made outside IT's line of sight.

Today

The reality

IT is accountable for 100% of your SaaS. They control less than 10%.

Your employees aren't being careless — they're being productive. But every app they adopt outside of IT creates identity sprawl, data exposure, and vendor risk you can't see.

90%
of apps adopted outside of IT
more SaaS apps than employees
40
apps with access to sensitive data, on average
74%
of employees bypass security controls

“Today, every employee acts as their own CIO and can easily reach for a new cloud or SaaS tool to solve virtually any problem.”

Ed Amoroso · CEO, TAG Infosphere

Why legacy fails

You can't secure what you can't see. And blocking what you can see doesn't work either.

Legacy tools were designed for a world where IT owned the stack. They fall short in three critical ways.

1

They can't find what they don't know about.

CASBs and network tools only see traffic they inspect. If an employee signs up for a SaaS app on their phone, home network, or personal device, it's completely invisible.

2

They require what they don't have.

API-based SSPMs need admin credentials and pre-existing visibility into each app. They cover the apps IT already manages — not the 90% it doesn't.

3

Blocking doesn't change behavior.

74% of employees admit to working around security controls. Block a tool and they'll find another way in. You lose visibility and they lose trust in IT.

A different approach

Don't fight the Workforce Edge. Secure it.

Nudge Security turns every employee's technology decisions into a source of visibility, context, and action — not risk.

Discover everything.

Patented, perimeterless discovery finds every SaaS and AI app, account, OAuth grant, and integration — from Day One, without agents or proxies.

Prioritize what matters.

AI-driven risk intelligence scores vendors, surfaces misconfigurations, and flags sensitive data flows — so you focus where the impact is highest.

Nudge, don't block.

Automated, contextual nudges reach employees in Slack, Teams, email, or the browser — guiding them toward secure choices in the flow of work.

Build security culture.

Every nudge is a real-world teaching moment. Over time, your workforce develops stronger cyber judgment — not just compliance checklists.

“Some of these people don't respond to emails or tickets, but they responded to the damn nudge. It just works.”

Manager of IT · Wallace Plese + Dreher

What changes

When you secure the Workforce Edge, everything shifts.

Before

Vendor assessments lag weeks behind adoption. 60% of apps go unvetted.

With Nudge

Third-party risk reviewed in real time, the moment employees adopt a new tool.

Before

Data governance means rigid policies that employees routinely work around.

With Nudge

Intelligent guidance helps employees make informed decisions about data sharing.

Before

Identity management covers SSO-enrolled apps only. The rest is a blind spot.

With Nudge

Continuous identity monitoring across every account — managed or not.

Before

SaaS spend data is scattered across finance, IT, and procurement.

With Nudge

Unified view of spend, risk, and utilization — all in one place.

See your Workforce Edge in five minutes.

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