Sep 11, 2025
SSPM platforms are well-liked for their ease of use, and many solutions are available on the market today. Here, we highlight different SSPM vendors, key platform features, and ideal use cases to help you determine the best fit for your organization.
We all rely on SaaS apps to running our businesses, but are they secure enough to trust? While these cloud-based solutions provide the speed and flexibility to stay competitive, they also open the door to a new world of security headaches. That’s what's led to the rise of SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) tools, making sure your apps are locked down and your compliance boxes are checked.
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) is a category of products that continuously assess and help remediate risks in SaaS applications. As SaaS adoption grows and becomes a common attack vector, SSPM tools have become critical for identifying issues like misconfigurations, dormant accounts, excessive privileges, and compliance gaps.
SSPM tools focus on popular applications such as Salesforce, Slack, and Office365, providing a centralized view that helps security teams enforce policies, manage access, and maintain strong security hygiene. By continuously monitoring SaaS environments, SSPM solutions ensure security standards are upheld without disrupting business workflows.
Not all SSPM solutions are built the same. While many tools focus solely on detecting misconfigurations, the strongest platforms go much further, pairing continuous monitoring with automated remediation, identity-aware policy enforcement, and strategic insights that elevate security teams from reactive to proactive.
With SaaS now central to how organizations operate, SSPM solutions play a critical role in safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining compliance with industry standards like SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR. By continuously assessing SaaS app configurations and user privileges, SSPMs help close the security gaps that can leave data exposed to both insider and external threats. That means your security team can enforce consistent policies, manage identity and access risk, and reduce the blast radius from misconfigurations or shadow integrations.
SSPM platforms are well-liked for their ease of use, and many solutions are available on the market today. Here, we highlight (in alphabetical order) different SSPM vendors, key platform features, and ideal use cases to help you determine the best fit for your organization.
Adaptive Shield integrates over 150 SaaS applications to continuously enable SaaS security analysis and governance, providing visibility into user accounts, permissions, and high-privilege activities. The platform identifies and prioritizes potential SaaS misconfigurations through detailed assessments, offering automated and guided remediation to streamline the process.
Adaptive Shield also enhances operational efficiency by enabling security teams to monitor and control third-party apps connected to core SaaS hubs, assess their associated risks, and manage device vulnerabilities. The platform prioritizes configuration weaknesses, helping teams effectively address identity-centric threats within the SaaS environment.
4.8 out of 5 stars from 31 reviews.
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AppOmni provides continuous SaaS security posture management and advanced threat detection, offering security insights for commonly used SaaS applications, such as ServiceNow, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, and Snowflake. AppOmni helps security teams uncover data exposures, identify threats and anomalies, and detect unauthorized third- and fourth-party SaaS connections to secure integrated apps. The platform also helps manage identities and privileges while identifying configuration drifts. With its agentless architecture, AppOmni ensures ongoing SaaS security monitoring, delivering timely insights and actionable remediation guidance to prevent data breaches. The platform serves as a central control hub for all managed SaaS applications within your organization.
4.8 out of 5 stars from 5 reviews
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CloudEagle positions itself as an AI-powered SaaS management and governance tool designed for IT, procurement, finance, and security teams. It offers features such as automated onboarding and offboarding, license harvesting, spend optimization, contract and renewal management, and risk visibility across a wide array of SaaS applications. However, it’s noteworthy that CloudEagle also frames itself broadly as a SaaS management and governance platform, incorporating features like onboarding/offboarding automation, license optimization, procurement workflows, spend visibility, and shadow IT alerts. So, while CloudEagle includes some SSPM functionality, especially around configuration, access, and compliance, it extends beyond that core role into SaaS lifecycle and spend management. Depending on how strictly you define “true SSPM,” it may be considered either a multifunction SSPM vendor or a hybrid SaaS management tool with SSPM capabilities at its core.
4.7 out of 5 stars from 80 reviews
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Cynet's SSPM platform automatically identifies, prioritizes, and fixes security risks across all common business SaaS applications and Cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, Google. The platform continuously monitors all connected SaaS applications, allowing users to manage security risks from a centralized dashboard. Cynet's solution ensures that SaaS applications remain compliant with key regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR by aligning them with established security policies and controls. Moreover, it supports many popular SaaS applications and seamlessly integrates with Cynet's 360 AutoXDR platform, offering a unified approach to SaaS security management.
4.7 out of 5 stars from 190 reviews.
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DoControl is a SaaS security posture management platform that provides comprehensive visibility, threat detection, and remediation capabilities to protect against sensitive data exposure and insider threats. DoControl safeguards SaaS data, manages identities, and secures connected third-party applications and configurations, ensuring robust protection across leading SaaS environments, including Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Box.
4.3 out of 5 stars from 2 reviews
Pros and Cons are not available due to the limited number of reviews.
Lumos offers a unified SaaS management and identity governance solution, empowering IT and security teams to optimize software costs, reduce IT ticket volumes, and enforce least-privilege access protocols. By centralizing vendor data, software spending, and license information, Lumos provides a consolidated resource for managing all integrated applications from one platform.
The platform’s integration with various SaaS tools, including SSO providers like Okta, enhances security by supporting multi-stage approvals and time-based access. Lumos also facilitates compliance management by generating audit-friendly reports, making it easier to meet regulatory requirements and ensuring the secure functioning of IT infrastructures.
4.8 out of 5 stars from 51 reviews
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Netskope’s SaaS security posture management solution offers visibility and control over SaaS configurations, particularly for applications like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Zoom. The platform reduces the risk of data breaches and compliance violations by enabling administrators to define and enforce cross-app rules, correlate data between different apps, and rapidly remediate identified security issues.
Netskope’s API-based protection for SaaS applications integrates seamlessly with their leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) service, providing a comprehensive security solution within their broader Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture. This ensures alignment with industry standards, including CIS, PCI-DSS, NIST, HIPAA, and GDPR.
4.4 out of 5 stars from 53 reviews
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Obsidian is a threat and SaaS security posture management solution that takes a 360-degree approach to SaaS application security by addressing application posture, identity security, and SaaS data governance.
With Obsidian, security teams can effectively manage and adjust user privileges, minimize risks from privilege escalations, prevent SaaS configuration drift, and automate SaaS compliance. Real-world insights help to strengthen an organization’s security posture and prevent breaches.
Obsidian has a limited presence on G2, with only one review. We are intentionally excluding details to prevent bias.
Spin.ai / SpinOne is a SaaS security platform designed to safeguard critical SaaS applications such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Slack. The platform includes SSPM, DSPM, and risk assessment capabilities, enabling rapid incident response and addressing key security, compliance, and risk management challenges. By automating security processes, SpinOne reduces the risk of data leaks and losses, streamlines SecOps workflows, minimizes downtime, and cuts recovery costs associated with ransomware attacks. Additionally, the platform supports compliance efforts, ensuring that organizations maintain adherence to regulatory requirements while protecting their SaaS data.
4.8 out of 5 stars from 55 reviews
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Varonis is a well-established name in SaaS security posture management, helping businesses address critical misconfigurations in their cloud data. As a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform, Varonis enables teams to discover, map, monitor, and protect data wherever it lives—including SaaS, IaaS, databases, directories, and Microsoft 365.
Varonis provides a rich set of features, including cloud DLP, identity security, email security, and policy automation. These capabilities allow organizations to find critical data and remediate exposure.
4.5 stars out of 5 from 41 reviews
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Zygon is a SSPM solution that emphasizes visibility into cloud‑based applications, permission governance, and identity lifecycle management. Even though Zygon also spans identity governance and access management (IGA/IAM), its core functionality includes the typical posture‑management elements of SSPM. This includes generating visibility into app usage, detecting misconfigurations, automating remediation workflows, and maintaining policy and compliance coverage across the SaaS stack.
4.9 stars out of 5 from 46 reviews
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Grip SSPM redefines what you should expect from a SaaS Security Posture Management solution. Built on a foundation of visibility, automation, and continuous risk reduction, it goes far beyond merely flagging misconfigurations in individual applications.
Powered by the Grip SaaS Security Control Plane (SSCP), Grip SSPM provides organizations with an all-encompassing perspective across their entire SaaS ecosystem, covering sanctioned, unsanctioned, and shadow IT applications alike. With this unified platform, security policies are not only monitored, but programmatically enforced across apps, users, permissions, and compliance frameworks with precision.
When comparing Grip SSPM to other SSPM vendor solutions, the biggest difference lies in how Grip brings everything together. Traditional SSPMs often take a fragmented approach: some focus solely on posture and misconfigurations, others prioritize identity signals or threat detection, but few deliver full visibility across all three. Grip takes a fundamentally different approach by unifying posture, identity, and threat data into one connected view. This integration makes it easier to understand the full context of a risk and act faster. Another key differentiator is timing: while many SSPMs operate on fixed schedules or periodic API calls, Grip continuously monitors the SaaS environment in real time. This means misconfigurations, policy violations, or access risks are detected the moment they occur, not hours or days later. For a deeper dive into how Grip SSPM stacks up, visit our SSPM product page.
To maximize its effectiveness, an SSPM must be integrated with specific business-critical SaaS applications and other SaaS security solutions to create a unified defense strategy. While SSPM helps enforce security policies and remediate misconfigurations, it becomes even more powerful when combined with SaaS discovery, identity security, and automated remediation tools. These integrations provide a more complete view of SaaS risk, ensuring organizations can identify security gaps and take swift, automated action to mitigate them. Integrating SSPM with your security tech stack enhances incident response, reduces manual workloads and strengthens compliance efforts, making it easier to secure the entire SaaS ecosystem while keeping pace with business innovation. View Grip's integrations.
SSPM is an important component of a broader SaaS security strategy, but it is only one piece of the puzzle. While SSPM security focuses on identifying and remediating misconfigurations, enforcing security policies, and ensuring compliance, a comprehensive SaaS security approach must also address identity risks, unauthorized SaaS usage, and dormant accounts. Organizations need visibility into all SaaS applications—sanctioned, unsanctioned, and shadow IT—along with continuous user access monitoring. Integrating SSPM with SaaS discovery, identity risk management, and automated remediation workflows ensures security teams can enforce consistent security policies across all applications, reduce the attack surface, and mitigate risks before they become incidents. When SSPM security is combined with strong identity governance, access control, and SaaS security automation, organizations can proactively secure their SaaS ecosystem while enabling business agility and innovation.
SaaS security isn't just a configuration problem anymore; it’s also an identity problem. As organizations adopt more SaaS apps, often without centralized oversight, the real risk isn’t just misconfigured settings. It’s the sprawling ecosystem of accounts, identities, and access that accumulates over time, often without anyone noticing. Traditional tools focus on isolated aspects of the problem, but securing SaaS in 2025 means understanding how users interact with apps, what data they can reach, and what happens when that access outlives its purpose.
Before investing in any SSPM or SaaS security platform, it’s essential to understand where your identity risk lives. When you book a Grip demo, our security experts show you exactly how Grip SSPM helps uncover hidden vulnerabilities, provides visibility into your shadow SaaS, and strengthens your security posture. See the platform in action and learn how to take control of your SaaS risk—book your demo now.
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This article was originally published on Sept. 4, 2024 and was updated on September 11, 2025 for content accuracy and relevancy.
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