AutoRABIT Guard breaks new ground: the first Salesforce DevOps Platform with SSPM
When AutoRABIT quietly switched on Guard this week, it did more than add another tile to its product mosaic. “We designed Guard to match Salesforce’s complexity and fix security gaps automatically, instead of burying teams in noisy alerts,” explains Pablo Gonzalez, the AutoRABIT product manager who led the effort. “If a setting drifts from your baseline, Guard can roll it back in near‑real time—keeping developers productive and security teams happy.” Jason Lord, AutoRABIT Chief Information Security Officer adds “Guard lets an admin press a single button and, within five minutes, see every risky configuration in the org—then fix 70 percent of them instantly.”
By packaging that real‑time posture engine inside a DevOps toolchain, AutoRABIT becomes the first Salesforce‑native CI/CD vendor to plant a flag in SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)—territory previously owned by pure‑play security firms such as AppOmni, Adaptive Shield and Obsidian Security.
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What is SSPM?
Gartner coined SSPM to describe tools that “continuously assess security risk and manage the security posture of SaaS applications.” Unlike CSPM (which watches hyperscaler clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure), SSPM interrogates the sprawling permission sets, integrations and data‑sharing rules inside SaaS apps, flags mis‑configurations, and—at the high end—automates their repair.
The Competitive Field
SSPM solutions have been on the market for over five years. Several leaders have emerged, including Salesforce-oriented solutions.
- AppOmni pioneered cross‑SaaS posture management and now monitors hundreds of applications, delivering near real‑time threat detection and compliance mapping.
- Adaptive Shield (now CrowdStrike Falcon Shield) integrates with 150‑plus SaaS apps—including Salesforce—to uncover drift and enforce governance.
- Obsidian Security blends posture, identity and threat detection to protect “people, apps and data” across the SaaS estate.
All three focus on multi‑vendor estates; none sit natively inside a Salesforce DevOps workflow.
How AutoRABIT Guard Works
“Traditional security tools choke on Salesforce’s complexity,” Lord notes. “Guard’s policy engine turns thousands of org settings into plain‑English recommendations that even non‑security teams can act on.”
Guard draws on AutoRABIT’s long‑running metadata digital twin technology to allow it to inventory every permission, object and integration.
- Security Policy Manager – build or import control baselines (ISO 27001, PCI‑DSS, etc.)
- Real‑time Monitoring – continuous scans surface “toxic combinations” (e.g., Author Apex + Export Reports permissions) and launch alerts.
- One‑click Remediation – admins (or the pipeline) can enforce fixes without leaving the console.
“Our goal is to move customers toward a true zero‑trust stance inside Salesforce, not just check compliance boxes,” Lord adds.
Crucially, Guard is sold as a standalone SaaS service; it does not require Salesforce Shield and can forward its findings to any security operations center or to any security orchestration, automation, and response platform.
Feature‑by‑feature comparison
| Capability | AutoRABIT Guard | Salesforce Shield | AppOmni |
| Primary focus | Real‑time Salesforce SSPM with automated fixes | Native monitoring & encryption suite | Multi‑SaaS SSPM & threat detection |
| Scope | Salesforce orgs (integrates with ARM, CodeScan) | Salesforce orgs only | 400+ SaaS apps incl. Salesforce |
| Continuous mis‑configuration detection | ✔ (policy engine, five‑minute scan) | Limited (Event Monitoring logs) | ✔ (real‑time insights) |
| Automated remediation | ✔ (one‑click or pipeline‑driven) | ✖ (admin manual) | △ (guided; some API playbooks) |
| Toxic permission combo analysis | ✔ (toxic‑combos dashboard) | ✖ | △ (risk rules) |
| DevOps pipeline hooks | Native to AutoRABIT CI/CD | None | API & SIEM connectors; not DevOps‑centric |
| Deployment | SaaS; OAuth connects org in minutes | Add‑on to Salesforce platform | SaaS |
| Ideal buyer | Salesforce platform owners & CISOs seeking integrated DevSecOps | Admins needing encryption, log retention | Security teams securing multi‑SaaS estate |
Why SSPM in DevOps matters
By folding SSPM directly into its DevOps stack, AutoRABIT blurs the line between shift‑left security and runtime governance. Lord argues the move expands the conversation “from architects to CISOs and risk officers,” aligning release velocity with zero‑trust mandates.
For customers that already back up their Salesforce orgs with Vault and scan code with CodeScan, Guard adds a third leg to an integrated security tripod. For the wider market, it signals that SSPM is fast becoming table stakes inside the Salesforce ecosystem—and that DevOps vendors, not just security specialists, intend to own that budget.
Expect Guard’s competitors to keep pace. Shield’s roadmap increasingly surfaces posture insights, and AppOmni has hinted at deeper developer hooks. But for now, AutoRABIT holds the distinction of turning SSPM into a natively DevOps‑driven step in the Salesforce software developer lifecycle.
Bottom line: Guard gives Salesforce teams a push‑button route to continuous compliance and real‑time risk reduction—without leaving their deployment pipeline. If SSPM was once a peripheral concern, it just moved to the center of DevOps.
