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Obsidian Security vs Salt Security

Obsidian Security sells real-time visibility, continuous governance and runtime enforcement over agents, identities and integrations across third-party apps. Salt Security provides security for the APIs, MCP servers and data infrastructure where agents execute. CISO Tribune files both under AI model and agent security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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  • Obsidian Security
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Obsidian Security vs Salt Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security sells real-time visibility, continuous governance and runtime enforcement over agents, identities and integrations across third-party apps.obsidiansecurity.comSalt SecuritySalt Security provides security for the APIs, MCP servers and data infrastructure where agents execute.salt.security
What it sells
  • Continuous GovernanceChecks each requirement, written once, in each connected app that exposes the data it needs.
  • Agentic Security Graph[4][8]Maps and correlates the full environment out-of-band.
  • Salt Surface[5][9]Provides agentless, outside-in discovery of MCP servers and APIs.
  • Salt Connect[5][9]Provides cloud and code inventory.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesPalo Alto, United States[1][3]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2016[1][11]
Ownership and funding
Privately held[1]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • August 4, 2026Obsidian Security said it raised $85 million in a Series D funding round that valued the company at $1.1 billion.[15]
  • June 1, 2026Salt Security launched Salt Code, a component that enforces security policies on AI-generated code across the development lifecycle.[17]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[7]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Obsidian Security sells to security teams that must defend actions by identities they can barely enumerate, across apps they did not build, on infrastructure they do not control. Obsidian Security describes security teams at large financial services and technology companies adopting its product to detect account takeovers, SaaS threats and privilege misuse. Obsidian Security addresses enterprises whose data lives in third-party enterprise apps they do not own. Obsidian Security addresses organisations whose employees connect AI agents to business apps through MCP. Obsidian Security addresses organisations where each team picks its own AI agent tool.From its own pages, the company shows an industry solution for Finance, described as stop fraud and abuse. It lists one for Healthcare, described as HIPPAA-grade protection. Transportation is also listed, with secure logistics APIs. Retail is listed, with protect PII at scale. Software is listed, with API-first app security. Its whitepaper page also says security teams face a challenge in which the action layer goes unmonitored.
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November 4, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Obsidian Security and Salt Security are both filed under AI model and agent security.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Obsidian Security's primary category is SaaS security posture; Salt Security's is API security.
  • Obsidian Security is also filed under Workforce AI usage security and Identity threat detection and response.
  • Obsidian Security lists Continuous Governance. Salt Security lists Agentic Security Graph, Salt Surface and Salt Connect.
  • Salt Security is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States.
  • Salt Security was founded in 2016.
  • Obsidian Security is privately held.

What it sells: Obsidian Security

What Continuous Governance does
The control model includes mappings to NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Supported controls are checked continuously, and changes are shown. Fixes are routed through Jira, ServiceNow, and other supported tools.

What it sells: Salt Security

What Agentic Security Graph does[4][8]
Salt's Agentic Security Graph maps and correlates the full environment out-of-band. Salt describes its agentic security platform as one graph of agents, the MCP servers they use and the APIs they call, with the context behind each one.
What Salt Surface does[5][9]
Salt Surface provides agentless, outside-in discovery of MCP servers and APIs. Salt Surface discovers these from the outside, without an agent.
What Salt Connect does[5][9]
Salt Connect provides cloud and code inventory. Salt names Salt Connect together with collectors that are used where runtime analysis is needed.

Questions about Obsidian Security and Salt Security

What do Obsidian Security and Salt Security sell?
Obsidian Security sells Continuous Governance. Salt Security sells Agentic Security Graph, Salt Surface and Salt Connect.
Are Obsidian Security and Salt Security in the same category?
They share AI model and agent security. Obsidian Security's primary category is SaaS security posture and Salt Security's is API security.
Where are Obsidian Security and Salt Security headquartered?
Salt Security is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States.
When were Obsidian Security and Salt Security founded?
Salt Security was founded in 2016.
Who owns Obsidian Security and Salt Security?
Obsidian Security is privately held.
Who are Obsidian Security and Salt Security sold to?
From its own pages, Obsidian Security sells to security teams that must defend actions by identities they can barely enumerate, across apps they did not build, on infrastructure they do not control. From its own pages, the company shows an industry solution for Finance, described as stop fraud and abuse.
What have Obsidian Security and Salt Security announced recently?
August 4, 2026: Obsidian Security said it raised $85 million in a Series D funding round that valued the company at $1.1 billion. June 1, 2026: Salt Security launched Salt Code, a component that enforces security policies on AI-generated code across the development lifecycle.

About Obsidian Security

Obsidian Security sells real-time visibility, continuous governance and runtime enforcement over agents, identities and integrations across third-party apps. Obsidian Security provides guardrails and real-time controls for AI agents that need access to third-party apps. The Obsidian platform turns billions of signals across business critical applications into security intelligence to protect users, agents, and data. Obsidian Security collects and connects third-party app and AI configurations, user activity, real-world threat signals, and browser telemetry.[3][4][13]

Obsidian Security says enterprise data lives in Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow and 35K+ third-party enterprise apps that customers do not own. Obsidian Security says non-human identities now outnumber people inside the enterprise application estate. Obsidian Security says every AI application and agent connected to an enterprise inherits the permissions and trust misconfigurations that already existed in enterprise applications. Obsidian Security says vibe-coded workflows connect straight into Salesforce, Snowflake, Workday, and Slack, often before anyone has reviewed them. Obsidian Security spent years mapping every identity, permission, and data flow across third-party enterprise applications. Obsidian Security gives customers visibility into what is connected, controls to enforce what is allowed, and clarity on what needs to change.[3][5]

Obsidian Security has over 200 integrations into SaaS and AI applications that pull posture and activity data. The Obsidian browser extension captures real-time user and AI agent activity. Obsidian Security normalizes every human and non-human identity, entitlement, access, and action and connects them in a knowledge graph. The Obsidian Knowledge Graph maps the relationships between identities, permissions, and actions. Obsidian Security layers configuration, policy, and ownership data together to surface misconfigurations and privilege overlaps. Obsidian Security builds machine learning baselines from real enterprise behavior, refined by what it learns from actual incidents. Obsidian Security normalizes and correlates 29+ billion events from third-party applications every month and feeds them back into the platform. Obsidian Security builds detections from how attackers acted across 500+ real breach responses with DFIR firms. When one customer identifies and removes a risky integration or access pattern, Obsidian Security shares that signal automatically across every environment it protects. Obsidian Security provides out-of-the-box detection rules mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and machine learning models based on real incident data. Obsidian Security integrates with SIEM and SOAR platforms for automated workflows. Obsidian Security provides an AI extension of the security team that explains rules, triages threats, and manages exceptions.[4][6][7][8][13]

Obsidian Security centralizes AI agent policy and enforces it at runtime across coding agents, agent platforms, MCP connections, and existing gateways. Obsidian Security agent policies use who the agent acts for, that person's employment status, and the team's data labels to tell a routine action from a risky one. Obsidian Security agent policies hold or block only the agent actions that match their conditions, and tool calls that match no policy proceed. Obsidian Security lets teams test each policy against real agent traffic before it stops anything. Obsidian Security says employees can connect AI agents to apps such as Salesforce, Snowflake, Slack, and Google Drive through MCP. The Obsidian proxy evaluates MCP traffic at each step of a session, including the app the agent can reach, the records it can list, and each tool call. The Obsidian proxy maps each MCP session to the person who started it, their account in the app, and the workspace, org, or instance the session reaches. With the Obsidian proxy, agents receive a proxy-issued token, and each user authorizes the app through the vendor's own consent flow.[5][9][10]

Obsidian Security monitors every new and existing MCP server in an environment with one dashboard. Obsidian Security shows MCP servers across AI agent platforms such as n8n and Microsoft Copilot. Obsidian Security raises risk alerts when agents connect to MCP servers without authentication. Obsidian Security helps teams spot unvetted or suspicious MCP servers and remove them.[11]

Obsidian Security maps supported identity, permission, configuration, and activity data to one control model. Obsidian Security provides mappings to NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Obsidian Security continuously checks supported controls and shows what changed. Obsidian Security attaches the available identity, permission, and ownership context to each finding so teams can find the cause and route the fix. Obsidian Security routes fixes through Jira, ServiceNow, and other supported tools. Obsidian Security fixes misconfigurations, removes high-risk integrations, and stops malicious activity in third-party apps. Obsidian Security detects and removes risky or unauthorized AI agent actions in third-party apps. Obsidian Security pairs inline defenses against credential and session theft with alerts for investigation and response. Obsidian Security monitors configuration drift and spots violations to automate compliance reporting. Obsidian Security discovers app sprawl, including unsanctioned AI and shadow SaaS. Obsidian Security offers coverage for organisations of up to 1K users.[12][13][14]

Obsidian Security committed to securing identity and SaaS apps, which it describes as a new attack surface that nobody was watching. Security teams at large financial services and technology companies adopted Obsidian Security to detect account takeovers, SaaS threats and privilege misuse. Obsidian Security is backed by IVP, Norwest, and GV. Obsidian Security announced an $85M Series D led by Crescent Cove Advisors.[2][5][7][11][12][13]

Obsidian Security on the record

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Obsidian Security full record

  1. [1]obsidiansecurity.comObsidian Security · obsidiansecurity.com · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Unlocking ai potential securelyObsidian Security · obsidiansecurity.com · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Secure AI. Fearless Innovation. | ObsidianObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]The Obsidian Security PlatformObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Obsidian Security – Who We AreObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]The Data Behind Better SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Network EffectsObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Automate Third-Party Application ComplianceObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Runtime Policy Decision Engine for AI Agents | Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]MCP Security Proxy for AI Agents | Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]MCP Security: Audit and Control Every MCP ServerObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Continuous Third-Party App Governance | Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Third-Party Application Security | Obsidian SecurityObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Flexible SaaS Security Pricing | ObsidianObsidian Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Obsidian Security raises funding at $1.1 billion valuation on AI security demand | ReutersReuters · published August 4, 2026 · Tier B

Salt Security full record

  1. [1]Salt security raises 140 million series d round led by capitalg at 1 4 billion valuationSalt Security · salt.security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Salt security extends its agentic security platform with native ai detection and responseSalt Security · salt.security · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Contact usSalt Security · salt.security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]The Agentic Security Graph: A New Framework for the AI EraSalt Security · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Salt Security: Agentic AI Security, MCP Discovery, and API SecuritySalt Security · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]EU AI Act Compliance 2026: What High-risk AI Systems Must Do Now | Salt SecuritySalt Security · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Salt Security Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier C
  8. [8]Onyx Security vs Salt Security | Secure the Agentic Action LayerSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Securing APIs - API Attack Surface Management SolutionSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Salt Security Master Services AgreementSalt Security · published May 20, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]API Security Company - About Us Salt Security API SecuritySalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Agentic Security Platform - Complete AI & API Protection PlatformSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]API Security Software - API Security Management SoftwareSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Proactive API Security - “Shift Left" API DevelopmentSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]API Security Customers - Salt Security CustomersSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]API Security Trends - API Attacks, Breaches & Threats ReportSalt Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Salt Security launches Salt CodeSalt Security · published June 1, 2026 · Tier A

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