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Obsidian Security, leader in SaaS security, today announced it ranked No. 95 on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America. Obsidian Security grew close to 1000% during the 2021–2024 period.

Obsidian Security, leader in SaaS security, today announced a major expansion of its platform to secure the next frontier of SaaS and AI. The release brings together community-built integrations, deep data context, and AI-driven intelligence to help organizations secure their expanding SaaS environment at enterprise scale.

Obsidian Security, leader in SaaS security, today announced the launch of SaaS AI agent defense, giving enterprises the first purpose-built solution to govern how AI agents access data in SaaS environments. With SaaS now one of the most targeted layers of the enterprise stack, Obsidian is closing the enterprise AI agent-to-SaaS blindspot, where unmanaged agentic AI integrations and excessive privileges can create cascading risk.

Obsidian Security, the leading SaaS security platform trusted by global enterprises including Snowflake, T-Mobile, and Pure Storage, today announced the expansion of its go-to-market leadership team with five strategic appointments. These hires position Obsidian to scale its operations as the company addresses the rapidly evolving security challenges posed by agentic AI and accelerates toward long-term growth and IPO readiness.

Obsidian Security has launched a new browser extension to help businesses safely use SaaS and AI apps online. The extension automatically finds and manages shadow SaaS and AI tools, blocks advanced spear-phishing attacks targeting access tokens, and gives real-time protection right in the user’s browser. It’s fast, lightweight, and private by design, already used on over a million devices across two hundred large and mid-sized enterprise customers. The solution leverages Obsidian’s insights from its network and threat research to keep blocking new threats as they appear.

Obsidian Security announces the appointment of Khanh Tran as its new Chief Product Officer (CPO). As the former CPO of JumpCloud and VP of Product Management at CrowdStrike, Tran brings over two decades of experience in security product management and building successful companies. In addition to these corporate accomplishments, Tran has served as an investor and advisor to several startups, with a proven track record for driving growth. Also joining Khanh at Obsidian are two former product leaders from Crowdstrike, Rekha Das and Alex Graul. Das will be leading Obsidian’s platform, partner, and agentic AI investments ahead of new SaaS challenges posed by agentic AI. Graul will lead UX design and UI engineering, focusing on simplifying the SaaS security problem for all users participating in the shared responsibility model.

Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS security, today announced a new integration with SentinelOne® (NYSE: S), a global leader in AI-powered security, and the availability of its comprehensive SaaS security solution on the SentinelOne Singularity™ Marketplace. This strategic integration unifies the cloud, endpoint and data capabilities of SentinelOne's Singularity™ platform with Obsidian's SaaS security platform, enabling enterprises to implement seamless cross-detection and response across endpoint, cloud, and SaaS.

Obsidian Security, the pioneer in Software as a Service (SaaS) security, today released its inaugural 2025 SaaS Security Threat Report, revealing an unprecedented 300% year-over-year increase in SaaS breaches between September 2023 to 2024. This surge in attacks has impacted organizations across all sectors, including major technology and telecommunications companies like Microsoft and AT&T who experienced significant breaches during this period. This dramatic surge comes as organizations increasingly rely on SaaS applications with current spend on SaaS in the hundreds of billions, or approximately $8,700 per employee for tools such as Workday, Google Workspace, ServiceNow, and Office 3651.

Obsidian Security today announced the successful completion of the Snowflake Ready Technology Validation, and achievement of the Snowflake Partner Network Financial Services Industry Competency. These milestones mark significant progress in Obsidian Security’s product integration and collaboration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company. Through this integration, Obsidian Security customers can strengthen the security of their critical data and applications on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

Obsidian Security announced today that it is enhancing the detection and response capabilities of security teams by integrating with the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform. This new integration leverages Obsidian’s extensive SaaS breach data repository to enrich the AI-powered models within CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM. By addressing the SaaS and PaaS blind spots for enterprises, it enables proactive defense against SaaS-originated attacks, before they can move to on-premises infrastructure.

Obsidian Security, the pioneer of SaaS security, announces the appointment of Sunil Seshadri to its Board of Directors. Sunil joins the board at a time when the Obsidian platform has become essential to Incident Response providers around the world as they respond to a 300 percent rise in SaaS breaches over the last 12 months.

Obsidian Security, the pioneer of SaaS security, announced today a strategic partnership with Databricks, the Data and AI company. This alliance strengthens the security of applications built on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and helps customers enact their data security and compliance strategy.

Obsidian Security, the pioneer of SaaS security, is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace (GCP). This partnership strengthens the security of solutions that customers can deploy on Google Cloud while making it easier for customers to acquire solutions and maximize their GCP committed spend.

We’re thrilled to share that Obsidian Security has been named a Strong Performer while receiving the highest scores possible across five criteria in The Forrester Wave™: SaaS Security Posture Management, Q4 2023 – the first Forrester Wave(™) report to be released in the SaaS Security and Posture Management (SSPM) category.

Obsidian Security, the global leader in SaaS security, today announced that the Obsidian platform is available on the CrowdStrike Marketplace, a one-stop destination and world-class ecosystem of third party security products. CrowdStrike Falcon customers can discover, try, buy and integrate Obsidian.

Obsidian Security, the global leader in SaaS security, today announced the extension of its Posture Hardening capabilities to include support for eleven additional applications: Auth0, Datadog, Fastly, GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, Jumpcloud, Logz, Sendgrid, Tableau, Zendesk, and Zuora. This move signals the company's continued dedication to optimizing security for a rapidly expanding mesh of SaaS applications, without burdening customers with the complexities of an SDK approach. Support for these eleven additional applications was accomplished within a single week of focused engineering – a testament to Obsidian's commitment to agile innovation and rapid product evolution.

Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS security, today announced the release of its latest suite of SaaS security solutions. This suite of solutions comprising Obsidian Compliance Posture ManagementTM, Obsidian Integration Risk ManagementTM, and Obsidian ExtendTM will together enable security and GRC teams to increase their SaaS security and compliance posture measurably.

Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS security Posture Management (SSPM), announced the appointment of Reena Choudhry as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Choudhry brings more than 20+ years of experience in enterprise sales leadership and partner-driven go-to-market strategies.

Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS Security and Posture Management (SSPM), today announced $90 million in Series C financing led by Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and IVP, with participation from existing investors Greylock, Wing and GV. Obsidian, which has now raised $119.5 million in total financing, will add Menlo Ventures Partner Venky Ganesan to its board of directors.

Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS security and posture management (SSPM), announced Xinran Wang has joined as the EVP of engineering.

Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS security and posture management (SSPM), announced four new senior hires on its engineering team: Zhiping Liu as Senior Principal Engineering Lead, Shuyang Wang, Head of Threat Research, Phil Whyte, Senior Director of Engineering and Autumn Wang, Director of DevOps. The key hires build on Obsidian’s mantra of relentless innovation and bring with them world-class security engineering expertise from leading organizations such as Apple, Google, Palo Alto Networks and GCHQ. These additions strengthen the product development team led by Glenn Chisholm, co-founder and CPO and Xinran Wang, EVP of Engineering. This announcement follows Obsidian’s official certification as a Great Place to Work from just earlier in May.

Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS Security and Posture Management (SSPM), unveiled the ability to detect SaaS session hijacking attempts early in the kill chain across multiple platforms like Okta, Azure AD, Microsoft 365 and more. The capability is used by more than 80 customers worldwide, including eight customers in the Fortune 1000. Attackers have recognized that credential stealing is less effective due to the broad adoption of multi-factor authentication (MFA) by organizations today. However, tokens associated with sessions of SaaS applications can be reused within time limits to access any and all applications associated with the identity provider (IDP), which is exemplified in the recent breach at Okta. In addition, Obsidian is expanding its comprehensive posture management capabilities to support ServiceNow, which joins an already expansive portfolio of SaaS applications including Microsoft 365, Salesforce, GitHub, Workday, Atlassian, etc.