Looking for the Best Alternative to Avanan?
Discover why SaaS Alerts is your top choice over Avanan.
While Avanan security focuses on securing email, file sharing and collaboration platforms, SaaS Alerts offers unified security against any unusual, high-risk behavior within your client’s SaaS environment as well as your MSP tool stack. Our automated remediation approach helps MSPs proactively address events before they escalate into major security incidents.
How SaaS Alerts Offers Better Security than Avanan
Comprehensive Integration for Centralized Security
| SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
| In addition to monitoring cloud apps, SaaS Alerts integrates with the most widely-used RMM tools, allowing MSPs to correlate data between known devices and user accounts. | Currently integrates with just cloud services and not RMM tools, hindering an MSP’s capability to correlate data and increasing the risk of potential breaches. |
Automated Remediation Against Threats
SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
Our Respond module helps MSPs customize rules to automatically address security threats for continuous and automated action against threats. | The Incident Response as a Service (IRaaS) relies on human teams to manage end-user reports of suspicious emails, leading to a time lag in threat response. |
Application of Security Recommendations
SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
Our security policy automation pulls Microsoft secure scores into a single view and lets you simultaneously deploy the recommendations across all tenants. | While Avanan security detects and stops attacks that bypass Microsoft security, it doesn’t offer the capability to improve Microsoft secure scores. |
Log Data Maintenance
SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
MSPs access previous event log data for 365 days to diagnose issues and detect threat patterns. | The absence of log data maintenance affects an MSP’s ability to analyze audit trails and discover security threats. |
Comprehensive Reporting
SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
The comprehensive monitoring and reporting of user behavior and security events in SaaS applications helps MSPs more accurately assess risks. | The reports don’t include employee activity (e.g., downloading, deleting and sharing files), impacting an MSP’s ability to promptly identify internal security risks. |
SaaS Alerts vs Avanan Security:
Key Differences
Unlike Avanan email security, which focuses primarily on data loss prevention (DLP), SaaS Alerts offers consolidated security against internal and external threats. Our multi-application security capabilities help monitor abnormal user behavior and usage of SaaS applications.
Let’s examine why SaaS Alerts is the best competitor to Avanan DLP security solutions.
| Remediation | SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
| Automatic remediation of security events | ✅ | ❌ |
| Fully automated remediation of compromised accounts (or accounts that show evidence of compromise) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Easy elimination of unnecessary guest user accounts | ✅ | ❌ |
| Automated remediation of critical issues, including impossible travel, data egress and events outside of the approved location | ✅ | ❌ |
| Automatic retirement of a session when an account is accessed outside of an approved location | ✅ | ❌ |
| Automated remediation of IAM events | ✅ | ❌ |
Monitoring | SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
Continuous monitoring and alerting | ✅ | ✅ |
Expanded DLP tracking with additional file activity monitoring | ✅ | ✅ |
Monitoring of documentation and RMM tools | ✅ | ❌ |
In-depth user behavior analysis to detect insider threats | ✅ | Primarily email |
Monitoring RMM connected devices to user behavior | ✅ | ❌ |
Malicious IP tracking | ✅ | ✅ |
Integrations | SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
Integrates with professional services automation (PSA) tools | ✅ | ❌ |
Integrates with remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools | ✅ | ❌ |
Integrates with IT documentation tools | ✅ | ❌ |
Integrates with Microsoft 365 | ✅ | ✅ |
Integrates with Google Workspace | ✅ | ✅ |
Integrates with Slack | ✅ | ✅ |
Integrates with Salesforce | ✅ | ✅ |
Integrates with Dropbox | ✅ | ✅ |
Reporting | SaaS Alerts | Avanan |
Scheduled reports to provide clients with constant visibility | ✅ | ✅ |
Monthly scheduled executive reports for visibility into clients’ Microsoft 365 environments | ✅ | ✅ |
Log data maintained for 365 days | ✅ | Internal only |
Free reports to assist with prospecting clients | ✅ | ❌ |
Employee activity reporting, including downloading, deleting and sharing files | ✅ | ❌ |
Improve Overall Security Stance with SaaS Alerts
Using the continuous monitoring capabilities of SaaS Alerts, MSPs gain visibility into security gaps to proactively keep bad actors out. Our automated platform analyzes vast amounts of data with great precision and automatically remediates security threats.
Here’s what you get with our comprehensive and automated security platform:
Alerts
Tailor thresholds for security events to get timely alerts on unusual user behavior, allowing you to act swiftly and address potential threats immediately.
Assessments
Evaluate the current security state of SaaS apps to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities. Demonstrate enhanced value to both customers and prospects.
Remediation
Use predefined rules to automate incident responses, cutting down on manual interventions and enhancing your security posture with swift remediation.
Fortify
Implement Microsoft’s recommended security measures to elevate your secure scores on all tenants. Fortify your defenses for a safer digital environment.
Switch from Avanan to SaaS Alerts for Automated SaaS Security
Your clients and teams deserve more comprehensive protection than Avanan’s cloud email security. SaaS Alerts goes beyond monitoring and alerting to automatically remediate threats and keep your clients secure around the clock.
All information contained herein is based on publicly available information as of November 9, 2023.
