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Reco has positioned itself as a strong player in the SaaS security market, growing rapidly on the back of its misconfiguration coverage and ability to support custom app onboarding. The platform offers broad app support for SaaS misconfiguration detection, along with automated onboarding for custom applications.
Reco also does an excellent job at discovering risks and giving customers visibility into their SaaS environments, combining behavior-based risk scoring with robust posture management capabilities.
These strengths have allowed Reco to carve out a niche in securing SaaS configurations and providing organizations with visibility. But at the same time, while Reco is great for surfacing risks and highlighting issues, its limitations become clear when it comes to control, cleanup, and remediation.
Reco highlights a broader challenge facing the industry: too many tools excel at showing you the problem, but stop short of fixing it.
Organizations don't need more visibility or alerting systems, they need remediation tools that can actually remediate the risks being surfaced and alerted on.
In this piece, we’ll explore three key industry challenges that define the SaaS security market today:
- Control over access, permissions, and data loss prevention (DLP).
- Alert fatigue and false positives.
- Strong alerting systems without remediation.
We’ll examine how Reco approaches these challenges, and contrast it with how DoControl takes a more action-oriented approach - one designed to give customers not only full visibility into their SaaS environment, but also the control and power to remediate the risks they face.
Industry Challenge 1: Control Over Access, Permissions, and DLP
The Problem:
While data security is broad, DLP is a very critical part in protecting the entire SaaS posture. Sensitive data can be overshared, permissions can be overextended, and accounts can become over-privileged - all of which create direct pathways for data exfiltration.
While visibility into these risks is necessary, it’s only half the battle. Without the ability to control access, enforce permissions, and apply data loss prevention (DLP) guardrails, organizations remain vulnerable.
Simply knowing where sensitive data is at risk doesn’t protect it. Controls that prevent unauthorized use and remediate risky exposure are what truly matter.
Reco’s Approach:
Reco excels at mapping identities, detecting misconfigurations, and providing posture visibility. Its strength lies in helping organizations see different scenarios that could lead to exposure.
But that’s where its ‘control’ ends.
Reco does not provide DLP capabilities, nor does it allow security teams to directly remediate risky permissions or enforce restrictions on data movement.
In other words, it offers the visibility to spot potential exfiltration scenarios, but not the enforcement to prevent them. They also don't provide visibility into data access - so you can't see who has access to what, how, when, and why. As a result, while you can flag possible exfiltration, you don’t get the granular view needed for full context.
For teams seeking to actively protect sensitive data and enforce least privilege, this is a critical gap.
DoControl’s Approach:
DoControl extends beyond visibility to provide active enforcement and DLP protection. With DoControl, IT and security teams gain full visibility into file activity, sharing patterns, user-level risk, and more.
DoControl’s workflows enforce least-privilege principles across SaaS applications, ensuring that permissions and data access remain tightly controlled. DoControl can also see who has access to what, why, and what they're doing in order to accurately assess the risk of each action, user, and permission. The platform uses context from HRIS, IdP, and EDR systems to gather information on users - setting controls based on who they are at the company and what they should truly have access to.
When risks are detected, rather than just flagging violations, DoControl enables automated workflows that adjust sharing settings, revoke access, or notify relevant teams. And because the platform understands user behavior and risk context, it helps prioritize and differentiate the most urgent threats vs. the harmless ones.
By baking remediation directly into its workflows, DoControl allows organizations not only to detect risky scenarios, but also to stop them from becoming incidents.
Industry Challenge 2: Alert Fatigue and False Positives
The Problem:
When every user, application, and integration produces new events, the volume of alerts can quickly spiral out of control. Even with risk scoring and prioritization, many alerts turn out to be low-value, duplicative, or false positives. The reality of false positives is actually very dangerous.
For one, real threats are missed, which actually increases the attack surface. Time spent chasing false positives means actual security threats actively slip through the cracks in real time. Critical incidents go uninvestigated, which increases risk exposure.
Wasted resources and disrupted workflows are also a critical concern. Security teams lose valuable productivity when investigating false alarms. Their time chasing down false positives takes away from high value tasks they need to be doing somewhere else. Not to mention, operations are further disrupted when legitimate business activities (sharing files, necessary collaboration, etc.) are mistakenly quarantined or when permissions are revoked unnecessarily.
Reco’s Approach:
Reco addresses this challenge by enriching its alerts with context, leveraging behavior-based risk scoring and advanced analytics. Its goal is to help teams understand not just that an event occurred, but why it matters and how it ties into broader SaaS posture.
This can be useful for prioritization, especially in environments with sprawling app usage. Still, while Reco does a good job at offering the context to the security teams behind the screen, it still doesn’t inherently reduce the burden on teams.
Security personnel are still left to triage, investigate, and manually attempt to resolve a large number of issues themselves.
DoControl’s Approach:
DoControl approaches the problem differently by focusing on context, automation, and noise reduction. DoControl enriches every action with context on the user, their status, their baseline actions, and helps to differentiate between true business behavior and actual risk.
Next, DoControl cuts through the noise and makes the security team's life easier. Instead of leaving every alert in the analyst’s queue, DoControl applies policy-driven workflows to automatically remediate common exposures.
For example, if a file is shared publicly when it shouldn’t be, the system can auto-revoke that link before it generates yet another manual alert. By resolving low-hanging issues behind the scenes, DoControl significantly reduces the number of alerts requiring human attention. What remains in the queue is the most meaningful and actionable issues that truly require security teams attention, which improves efficiency and lessens the chance of missing threats that need human intervention.
Industry Challenge 3: Strong Alerting Systems, But No Remediation
The Problem:
Across the SaaS security landscape, many tools are excellent at surfacing risks. But, too often, that’s where the journey ends.
These tools generate alerts and highlight issues, but they don’t provide the means to fix them.
Security teams are left with dashboards full of warnings and the burden of figuring out remediation on their own.
This is problematic for many reasons, with one of the biggest being that it becomes a cycle of constant monitoring without resolution, where problems are identified faster than they can be solved - which burns out security teams, wastes time in manual clean up, and weakens security posture as a whole.
Reco’s Approach:
Reco has carved out real strength in this area of detection. It has broad coverage for misconfigurations, automated custom app onboarding, and behavior-based scoring give organizations meaningful insights into their SaaS posture.
Reco ensures that teams can see where the risks are and prioritize them based on severity. However, its role stops at visibility. Reco does not provide native remediation capabilities.
Once the alert is generated, it’s up to the security team to chase it down and resolve it manually. For organizations with limited resources, this can feel like trading one problem (blind spots) for another (manual backlog).
DoControl’s Approach:
DoControl takes a different path, designed around closing the loop and solving the problem. DoControl’s platform pairs its detection with automated remediation workflows, enabling security teams to act on alerts without leaving the tool.
For example: when risky file shares are exposed, permissions are misconfigured, or sensitive data is overshared, DoControl can automatically revoke access, quarantine files, or block external sharing - all without manually intervention from sec teams (unless they want to be involved, then they can be engaged automatically via Slack or Gmail through setting up a workflow step!)
This transforms alerts from static warnings into actionable workflows. Instead of more alerts piling up and fear creeping in, security teams can tackle and remediate each alert swiftly and smoothly.
Conclusion
Reco has earned its place in the SaaS security market by excelling at what it does best: discovery, misconfiguration coverage, and SaaS posture management.
For organizations that need broad visibility and detailed insights into how their SaaS environments are configured, Reco delivers real value. It helps teams understand where their SaaS posture may be exposed.
But visibility alone is not enough. Security teams don’t need another stream of alerts - they need a solution that can act on those alerts and resolve risks before they turn into incidents.
This is where DoControl sets itself apart. With automated remediation workflows, permission enforcement, and DLP-like controls, DoControl closes the loop: it not only detects risks but also gives teams the power to remediate them directly within the platform.
It’s important to stress that there’s nothing “wrong” with solutions who can’t do it all. In this case, Reco is a great solution for organizations that prioritize discovery and posture management. But for those seeking to go beyond visibility - to actually control access, prevent data exfiltration, and remediate issues in real time - Reco alone won’t be the answer.
The data security problem isn’t solved by any single product. This is not a one-size-fits-all problem, and there is no silver bullet to solving every single SaaS security problem that could arise - ever. It doesn't exist.
That's why the most effective security programs take a layered, best-of-breed approach: using different solutions in tandem to cover unique gaps, flex around new threats, and minimize the overall attack surface.
For organizations that want to secure SaaS environments, enable their business, and remediate risks in real time, DoControl isn’t just an alternative to Reco or other tools - it represents the future of SaaS and data security, redefining how the market approaches its challenges and needs.
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