Wondering how a SaaS management platform (SMP) compares to Nudge Security? Learn why modern IT & security teams are turning to Nudge Security for a complete SaaS security and governance solution.
Nudge Security is a holistic SaaS security and governance platform for todayâs highly distributed, cloud-first organizations.
Our patented approach to shadow SaaS discovery provides Day One visibility of your SaaS usage, risk, and spend with a single integration, including unmanaged apps and shadow spend that often can't be captured by  other software asset inventories, expense management systems, or network security tools.
Nudge Security provides a single source of SaaS truth that enables collaboration across IT, security, legal, finance, and app business owners. As such, organizations can take a holistic, proactive approach to managing SaaS risk, access, and spendâall without disrupting the pace of modern productivity.
SaaS management platforms (SMP) centralize and automate the management of enterprise SaaS apps. While capabilities and features vary from vendor to vendor, SMPs often support IT, finance, and operations teams with workflows related to SaaS app lifecycle management.
Some SMPs focus on SaaS spend management, supporting license management and renewal processes, while others extend to SaaS security management by integrating with other security technologies, such as CASBs.
Sample SMP vendors include BetterCloud, Torii, Trelica, Productiv, Vendr, Zluri, and Zylo.
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Discover all shadow SaaS on Day One. Our patented approach discovers managed, unmanaged, paid, and free SaaS everywhere modern work happens. No network proxies, agents, or browser plugins required.
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Know the true cost of SaaS sprawl. Only Nudge Security shows you what you donât 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.
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Find out who has SaaS accessâand how. Nudge Security discovers SaaS identities, auth methods, and MFA status for user and group accounts, managed and unmanaged. Detect and send anomalous identity events to your SOC.
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Limitless and scalable, Nudge Security combines machine learning and human-centric design, engaging the right stakeholders at the right time in SaaS security and management for any app.
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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.
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Manage offboarding, SaaS access reviews, SSO onboarding, and more with purpose-built playbooks that streamline and orchestrate SaaS work.
SMP
Rely on other data sources such as IDP / SSO providers, CASBs, and accounting software for a partial list of managed and paid SaaS apps. For the rest, install agents or browser extensions to monitor employeesâ internet activities.
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Be the last to know about SaaS spend. If a SaaS expense isnât 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.
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Replicate what you already know from SSO. Copy identity and access data from your SSO or IdP and API integrations with managed SaaS apps to gain incremental value on top of existing identity governance tools.
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Limited to supported integrations, just a few hundred of the tens of thousands of B2B SaaS apps you might be using. If your apps arenât supported, youâll have to wait for a custom-built integration.
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Start the hunt for other solutions to address third-party risk management, SaaS attack surface management, and SaaS-to-SaaS supply chain security.
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Build workflows before any work flows. While most SMPs offer highly customizable workflow builders, they require complex configuration work.
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âUp and running in less than 6 weeks!â
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Pay extra for essential features like workflow automation and offboarding, security and compliance, not to mention professional services.
Nudge Security
Realize value immediately. Get started with our fully self-service trial to gain full SaaS visibility in minutes (75 on average) and start automating SaaS governance and security tasksâno integrations or workflow building required.
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An all-in-one solution for SaaS security and governance at a fraction of the cost of an enterprise SMP. View our pricing â
SaaS management platforms aspire to be the single source of truth for an organizationâs entire SaaS estate, satisfying a broad range of use cases across IT, finance, legal, and security. But, are they living up to this expectation? Or, is this more myth than reality?
To evaluate the effectiveness of a SaaS management platform, start with visibility. After all, you canât manage what you canât see. While nearly all SMP vendors claim to address shadow SaaS through various discovery methods, the reality is that most SMPs rely primarily on other sources of known SaaS data, including identity and SSO providers, accounting software, network security tools like CASBs, and API integrations with a finite set of supported enterprise SaaS apps  that you already know about.
While it may be of some utility for organizations to replicate and aggregate such data within a centralized repository, it ultimately offers only a partial inventory of managed and paid SaaS assets, leaving blind spots with regard to shadow SaaS Â adoption, expenses, and risks. Thus, SMPs typically augment their data collection methods with the optional use of endpoint agents and/or browser extensions to monitor employeesâ internet use, some going as far as logging keystroke data. Still, these invasive approaches fall short when employees use personal devices or simply opt to use a different browser.
As such, shadow SaaS persists.ââ
SaaS management platforms often suffer the same design flaw as SaaS security posture management (SSPM) solutions: they require you to integrate the platform with each of your SaaS apps in order to perform any management or security automation. This not only requires prior knowledge of your SaaS estate, but it also leaves you at the mercy of an SMP vendorâs ability to build, maintain, and secure API integrations across an ever-changing SaaS vendor landscape.
While leading SMP vendors boast support for hundreds of enterprise SaaS apps, Nudge Security customers alone have discovered over 50,000 unique SaaS apps used by their workforces. This coverage gap is likely to persist as the SaaS market continues its strong growth.
If you read online reviews of SMP providers, youâll see that one of the most common complaints is the lack of supported integrations for customersâ business-critical SaaS apps. Without this support, even the most robust and flexible IT automation workflow engine is left hamstrung, leaving IT organizations to resort to manual workarounds for unsupported apps.
Nudge Security takes a holistic approach to SaaS security and governanceâone that addresses emerging SaaS security risks and threats while also enabling IT and GRC teams to manage SaaS sprawl and automate SaaS governance. It creates a true, reliable single source of SaaS truth that aligns stakeholders across the organization. Explore the advantages of Nudge Security:
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In a matter of minutes, Nudge Security discovers your entire SaaS inventory: known and unknown apps, SaaS identities, MFA and SSO status, resources, SaaS-to-SaaS OAuth connections, user activities, shadow SaaS spend, and much more. Monitor app adoption trends, forecast SaaS spend, and always know who's using what.
Nudge Security flags opportunities for SaaS savings, such as inactive accounts and rogue AWS spend. Optimize license counts ahead of upcoming renewals, make a business case to consolidate redundant apps or instances, and catch anomalous invoice activity such as two users paying for the same subscription.
Nudge Security classifies and prioritizes high-value SaaS apps, so you can proactively monitor your overall SaaS attack surface at it evolves. OAuth risk scores and SaaS supply chain breach alerts uncover actionable areas of focus, and SaaS security events can be sent to SIEM or other security analytics tools.
Work with your employeesânot against themâto strengthen your SaaS security posture. Our automated interventions and workflows enable  highly orchestrated engagement, nudging app owners and users to take simple, yet effective steps at the right moments to help ensure safe, compliant SaaS adoption and use.
