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Nudge has established itself as an innovative player in the security awareness space, focusing on guiding (or ‘nudging’) employees toward safer security behaviors through real-time nudges and prompts.
By encouraging better decision-making in the moment, Nudge helps organizations strengthen their security culture and reduce risky actions before they spiral into incidents.
This approach has real value for businesses that want to boost employee awareness and engagement without overwhelming them with rigid rules or heavy-handed restrictions.
At the same time, when applied to SaaS and cloud environments, Nudge faces challenges.
Nudge Security’s focus is on visibility and influence, not on automated enforcement or remediation. Their platform:
- Discovers SaaS and AI applications in use (including shadow IT).
- Analyzes usage, risk, and spend across those apps.
- Engages employees through nudges and prompts, encouraging them to adopt security best practices (like enabling MFA, deprovisioning unused apps, or using approved alternatives).
Nudge, however, does not provide direct, API-driven remediation of risks (ex. bulk revoking file shares, removing permissions, or auto-correcting misconfigurations). Instead, it relies on employees or admins to care enough and take corrective action after being ‘nudged.’
For organizations that need scalable, automated, and context-rich controls for SaaS and cloud data, Nudge has limitations.
In the following sections, we’ll explore three of the most pressing challenges facing organizations as they secure data across SaaS and cloud environments. These are areas where awareness-driven approaches often fall short - and where DoControl’s API-first protection model proves far more effective.
Industry Challenge → High False Positives Slow Down the Business
As tech stacks expand in 2025 and beyond, the ability to distinguish between genuine risks and harmless actions that are completely in line with day-to-day business behavior is essential. High false positive rates drain security teams’ time in cleanup and investigation, distract from true threats, and frustrate employees.
Without accurate context on user roles, intent, and activity, alerts are often misleading or irrelevant - which can cause employees to disengage and teams to waste resources chasing noise.
Nudge’s Approach
Nudge relies on prompting employees directly when it detects potentially risky behavior. While this can raise awareness, it often lacks the underlying context needed to accurately separate malicious actions from legitimate business activity. The result: frequent false positives that erode user trust and overwhelm security staff with false alarms.
DoControl’s Advantage
DoControl solves this by integrating with HRIS, IdP, and EDR platforms, enriching every alert with valuable contextual data. By understanding who the user is, what role they play, and why their actions may or may not align with expectations, DoControl pinpoints real risks with precision.
Not every action is inherently risky. For example, an employee externally sharing financial data might appear suspicious at first glance - but if it’s the company’s accountant sharing audit findings during tax season, it’s a completely logical action that falls within their role, scope, and historical behavior.
Our platform distinguishes between routine activity and true risk, reducing noise, increasing accuracy, and enabling security teams to act swiftly and confidently.
DoControl’s Context-Rich Risk Detection > Nudge’s Volume of False Positives
Industry Challenge → Lack of Historical Remediation Leaves Blind Spots
Security isn’t just about today’s risks - it’s also about yesterday’s exposures. Sensitive data that was shared or left exposed months or years ago can still create vulnerabilities that attackers exploit. Without the ability to remediate historical data, organizations leave massive blind spots unaddressed.
Nudge’s Approach
Nudge focuses primarily on influencing employee behavior in the present. But it can’t go back and remediate historical exposures across SaaS apps, meaning that old risks - shared files, misconfigured permissions, forgotten data - remain open.
DoControl’s Advantage
DoControl provides bulk remediation for up to 1M files with a single click. This allows security teams to close off legacy exposures at scale, ensuring old data doesn’t come back to haunt them.
DoControl provides on demand bulk remediation, and also bakes remediations into automated workflows. These workflows run 24/7 - making sure that data never slips through the cracks and stays exposed. Different remediation paths available can be removing permissions, unsharing files, expiring links, revoking sessions, and more.
By combining proactive and retroactive coverage, DoControl eliminates both current and historical risks.
DoControl’s Bulk Remediation > Nudge’s Lack of Historical Coverage
Industry Challenge → SaaS Protection Needs Depth, Not Just Breadth
Modern enterprises rely on dozens, if not hundreds, of SaaS applications. While breadth of coverage is important, true security requires deep, API-driven integrations that provide granular visibility and controls within critical platforms. Without this depth, risks remain unmonitored and unmitigated.
Nudge’s Approach
While Nudge offers a wide range of application coverage, it lacks depth within individual SaaS platforms. It may cover many apps, but its ability to go deeply into EACH of those apps is where limitations pop up. This means it can’t deliver the granular controls organizations need to secure business-critical apps like Google Workspace or Slack.
DoControl’s Advantage
DoControl was built for SaaS-first environments, with deep and extensive integrations across the SaaS ecosystem. It was purpose built for protecting critical SaaS data within Google Workspace and Slack. We see every file, user, action, piece of data, and action happening 24/7 in real time - ensuring organizations can monitor, manage, and remediate ALL risks whenever they need.
DoControl’s Deep SaaS Integrations > Nudge’s Limited Coverage
Key Takeaways
Nudge has carved out its niche by focusing on employee awareness and behavioral nudging. They excel at this specific function and are among the best in the space at driving user engagement. It’s a unique product for those who need it!
However, in SaaS- and cloud-first environments, Nudge faces challenges. High false positives, the inability to remediate historical exposures, and limited depth across SaaS applications create gaps for organizations seeking scalable, modern security.
No single solution can address every aspect of SaaS security. The key is a layered approach that covers multiple vectors of a company’s SaaS posture.
While there’s no end-all-be-all magic potion that solves for data security, enterprises today need platforms that adapt quickly, integrate seamlessly, provide comprehensive detection and response, and support the way people actually work.
The industry is shifting toward API-driven, context-rich solutions that deliver real-time monitoring, flexible workflows, and the ability to remediate both current and historical risks.
For organizations that want to secure SaaS environments without sacrificing productivity, DoControl isn’t just an alternative to Nudge - it’s the future of SaaS and data security
Want to Learn More?
- DoControl vs. Bettercloud – click here
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