Grip Security vs AppOmni: Comparison 2024

This intelligence is based on feedback from multiple meetings conducted by Reco experts with industry experts, customers and prospects.

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Overview of Grip Security

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Grip Security is focused on securing access to SaaS applications across an organization. Its capabilities include automated app discovery, shadow IT monitoring, data loss prevention, and governance. Grip aims to provide complete visibility into SaaS usage, allowing CISOs to mitigate risks associated with SaaS application sprawl and unauthorized app usage. The platform is designed for quick deployment and offers integrations with existing security tools, facilitating a unified approach to SaaS security.

Overview of AppOmni

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AppOmni caters to large enterprises with robust features. It is known for its deep visibility into SaaS application configurations, data access, and user activity. AppOmni excels at detecting misconfigurations, data exposure, user activity, and potential threats across SaaS applications. A risk mitigation engine prioritizes security risks based on severity and potential impact. Its automated capabilities simplify and expedite security procedures. AppOmni’s advantages include its comprehensive coverage of core SaaS applications such as Salesforce, configuration management, and strong automation capabilities. In terms of pricing, it offers tiered pricing and is usually on the higher side.

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Expert Insight: To establish SaaS security, security and risk management leaders must work to establish a multilevel and multidisciplinary approach. This approach must address organizational culture (since it is relatively easy to adopt a new SaaS application, especially a free one), governance and technical controls to reinforce appropriate behavior. Insight by Gartner

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Grip Security and AppOmni Feature Comparison

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Grip Security Key Features

• Automated App Discovery: Provides real-time visibility into all SaaS applications used across the organization, including unauthorized or unapproved apps.
• Shadow IT Monitoring: Identifies risky or unauthorized SaaS usage and helps implement controls to mitigate exposure.
• Data Loss Prevention: Protects sensitive data by enforcing DLP policies across various SaaS applications.
• Governance and Compliance: Enables continuous monitoring and compliance reporting for key regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Automated Remediation: Offers automated workflows to address security incidents, such as disabling risky SaaS apps or alerting relevant teams.

AppOmni Key Features

• SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM): Offers comprehensive visibility into the security posture of core SaaS applications, identifying misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.
• Configuration Monitoring: Continuously monitors SaaS configurations to ensure compliance with security policies. An expert in Salesforce configuration management. 
• SaaS to SaaS: Discovers connected SaaS applications as well as 3rd-party SaaS applications. 
• Guided Remediation: Provides guided remediation. Security teams can use provided steps to remediate in their existing SIEM, SOAR, or ticketing tool. 
• Compliance Reporting: Facilitates compliance with industry standards and regulations by generating detailed reports.

Implementation and User Experience of Grip Security and AppOmni

• Grip Security is known for its fast deployment and user-friendly interface. Its automated discovery tools provide immediate insights into SaaS usage, making it suitable for organizations with limited SaaS management resources. The platform offers customizable dashboards and reports, allowing CISOs to quickly understand security gaps and compliance risks.
• AppOmni: The implementation process is generally straightforward. The platform is API-based and agentless, and organizations can have their data ingested in a few days. The user interface is designed for security teams to collaborate together, providing detailed insights into SaaS configurations and security posture. Users typically find the platform intuitive and powerful for managing complex SaaS environments.

Number of Integrations of Grip Security and AppOmni

• Grip Security: Supports numerous integrations, including popular SaaS applications, CASBs, SIEMs, and identity providers, allowing for streamlined incident response and data aggregation.
• AppOmni: Offers extensive integration capabilities with a wide range of SaaS applications, ensuring broad coverage across different platforms. Current coverage is 38 SaaS applications. However, the depth of capabilities for these SaaS applications is limited. 

Overview of Compliance Features of Grip Security

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Grip Security offers compliance monitoring and reporting for major regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA. Its compliance features include automated risk assessments, data protection policies, and audit trails to track data access across SaaS applications. Grip also supports continuous compliance monitoring, with alerts for policy violations and automated remediation capabilities.

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Overview of Compliance Features of AppOmni

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AppOmni provides robust compliance management features, including automated compliance checks, continuous monitoring of SaaS configurations, and detailed reporting to ensure adherence to industry standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2. The platform’s compliance tools are designed to help organizations maintain a secure SaaS environment while meeting regulatory requirements.

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Compliance Comparison of Grip Security and AppOmni

• Grip Security: provides robust compliance features designed to help organizations meet various regulatory and industry standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and others. The platform focuses on ensuring that SaaS applications are used in a compliant manner, addressing data security and privacy requirements.
• AppOmni: Focuses on continuous monitoring and automated alerts, with customizable compliance frameworks that cater to specific organizational needs. It provides detailed compliance reports and dashboards to ensure ongoing adherence to regulatory standards.

SaaS to SaaS Discovery Capabilities of Grip Security and AppOmni

• Grip Security offers automated discovery of all SaaS applications, including unsanctioned apps, with minimal setup. Its approach covers both network and endpoint data sources, enabling complete visibility into SaaS usage. This feature helps organizations manage shadow IT and identify new app adoption trends.
• AppOmni: Offers app discovery capabilities, identifying and categorizing all SaaS applications used within the organization, including connected 3rd-party SaaS applications. This helps in securing unauthorized SaaS usage. AppOmni cannot discover shadow IT. 

Shadow IT Capabilities of Grip Security and AppOmni

• Grip Security excels in identifying and controlling shadow IT, offering tools to detect unapproved SaaS applications and enforce usage policies. It provides insights into app usage trends and enables security teams to block or restrict access to risky apps.
• AppOmni: Cannot detect or manage shadow IT. Organizations are therefore unable to manage unauthorized SaaS usage and enforce security policies across all applications.

Reco’s Integration Capabilities

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Reco can discover and secure over 50,000 SaaS applications. It integrates with 100+ SaaS applications. Reco develops new application integrations using a low-code, no-code development and can add a new full-featured integration in 3-5 days.

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Reco’s Comprehensive App Discovery and Shadow IT Features

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Reco is a comprehensive SaaS security solution that supports the entire lifecycle of SaaS, from posture management to shadow IT and threat detection and response. It gives organizations full visibility into their SaaS ecosystem, monitors permissions and access across identities, and tracks misconfigurations and configuration drifts. 

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Reco uses advanced analytics around persona, actions, interactions and relationships to other users, and then uses this context to send prioritized alerts on potential exposure. This comprehensive picture is generated continuously using the Reco Identities Interaction Graph and empowers security teams to take swift action to effectively prioritize their most critical points of risk. Reco uses a low-code/no-code approach to add a new SaaS integration in 3-5 days. 

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App Discovery: 

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Until now, even answering how many SaaS applications were connected to an organization’s environment was almost impossible, let alone what they are. Reco’s AI-based graph technology connects in minutes and provides immediate visibility to security teams to continuously discover all SaaS applications, Shadow IT, GenAI tool usage, and data exposure risks. Reco is then able to identify, contextualize, prioritize and – most importantly – address potential risks.

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Shadow IT:

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Reco monitors email headers and uses this data to discover apps installed without IT approval/authorization. Reco is the only solution that combines this technology with posture management and threat detection within the SaaS ecosystem. 

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Reco’s Key Features and Benefits

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Reco is a full lifecycle SaaS security solution that brings a suite of innovative features that are redefining standards in the SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) category.

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Identity Management: 

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Reco introduces a contextual, graph-based approach to identity management. Unlike traditional SSPM solutions that treat identity in isolation, Reco's system integrates identities across all SaaS platforms, providing a unified view that provides context, enhances security oversight, and bolsters incident response. This graph-based approach offers deep insight into potential security risks associated with interconnected identities and permissions and fewer false positives thanks to this crucial context absent from other SSPM solutions.

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Reco Success Story: Reco detected insider risk of a leaving employee snooping and downloading excessive files from Salesforce. The customer was able to address this quickly.

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Advanced Analytics & ITDR:

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Reco’s contextual graph is the baseline for the real-time adaptive policy engine that allows end users to create and modify security policies that respond dynamically in real time to emerging threats. Reco integrates with existing security tools such as SOAR platforms and SIEMs, automating remediation processes. This reduces both the window of opportunity for attackers and configuration drifts as they happen. This continuous compliance helps organizations identify and remediate potential threats that might otherwise go unnoticed for months until performing official compliance audits.

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Reco Success Story: By reducing the number of unclear alerts by 50%, Reco was able to help a a customer’s security team save time, freeing them to focus on more important tasks. Reco’s AI-based solution provided the missing context needed to understand what actions were needed to take action quickly and accurately. 

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Multi-Tenant Management: 

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Reco is designed for both service providers and large enterprises. Reco supports complex multi-tenant environments, allowing organizations to manage multiple clients or business units from a single, centralized platform. Each tenant's data is isolated and secure. 

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Reco Success Story: Reco's contextual alerts, automated workflows, and policy management functionalities provided immediate value to customers. One customer shared that they have enhanced their ability to protect customer data, mitigate risks, and create a secure environment for both customers and employees.

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Permissions and Access: 

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Over-permissioned access, stale accounts, and external accounts pose immense risks to organizations’ data security. Reco continuously assesses users’ permission level using the principle of least privilege access, ensuring users and service accounts have no more access than necessary. In addition, Reco helps identify and revoke permissions that are unused or dormant, stale accounts, and risky user behavior that could lead to a breach. This constant monitoring across identities helps organizations ensure over-privileged users don’t become a 

liability. 

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Reco Success Story: A new member of the IT team automatically received Admin privileges in the SSO provider, and then was granted privileged access to Salesforce, Github, and NetSuite. The Reco platform alerted them of this situation so they could rightsize user access.

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Compliance and Configurations: 

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As misconfigurations are one of the highest risks organizations face, Reco can help teams stay in continuous compliance by monitoring for configuration changes or drifts. These metrics are fully customizable to help organizations recognize and resolve compliance issues before an audit. By tracking and gaining visibility into these potential risks, organizations are able to ensure they are following the correct industry best practices and frameworks. 

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Reco Success Story: Reco’s posture dashboard enabled one customer to clearly understand their posture gaps. The platform highlighted misconfigurations but also offered straightforward steps for resolution, saving them invaluable time.

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How Reco Enhances Efficiency and Compliance

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Reco has saved costs, time and lowered risk for organizations. Users saved 500+ hours/year when automating the user access review process, and 350+ hours/year no longer handling manual data aggregation and correlation for investigation. They saved $70,000/year on average when automating posture checks and mapping to compliance frameworks, and $50,000/year when removing stale accounts identified using Reco. Users lower risk by 90% from the visibility gained across core SaaS applications, third-party apps, and shadow IT, and lower risk by 70% when automating event monitoring in Salesforce and Microsoft 365. 

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Conclusion

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For CISOs evaluating SaaS security solutions, Grip Security and AppOmni offer distinct advantages depending on the organization's specific needs. Grip Security is better suited for organizations seeking SaaS app discovery and shadow IT management, providing unmatched visibility into all SaaS usage across an organization. It includes robust data protection features like data loss prevention and automated compliance monitoring to ensure regulatory adherence. The platform’s automated remediation capabilities enable quick response to security incidents, reducing overall risk and streamlining SaaS governance.

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AppOmni, on the other hand, excels in SaaS security posture management, configuration management, and compliance especially for Salesforce, making it a strong choice for organizations requiring broad SaaS coverage and regulatory adherence. 

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The choice will depend on whether your focus is on if the solution offers a simplified approach to securing your SaaS ecosystem that’s focused on app discovery, or on proactively preventing data exposure by maintaining security posture of your SaaS applications, with a focus on core applications like Salesforce.

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