FailSafe review
Low-cost, read-only SaaS posture monitoring for small teams.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
FailSafe is an agentless SaaS Security Posture Management platform for small and midsize businesses and managed service providers. It connects to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace through read-only API access, discovers SaaS and AI applications, inventories OAuth permissions, and assesses identity, MFA, and access-control posture. Its web-based scope covers shadow IT, shadow AI, connected apps, compliance mappings, monitoring, and audit-ready reporting.
Pricing starts with a Free plan at $0 per month, including identity and email discovery, shadow IT and shadow AI discovery, OAuth inventory, a posture score, and a watermarked PDF snapshot. The Shadow IT plan is $9 per month or $99 per year, adding remediation steps, OAuth blast-radius audits, compliance crosswalks, continuous monitoring, drift alerts, and an executive PDF. Shadow IT Plus costs $29 per month or $319 per year and adds financial transaction cross-referencing, sharper classification, and wasted-spend and unused-license detection. Shadow IT Complete costs $189 per month or $2,079 per year and adds endpoint security posture plus identity, email, financial, and endpoint coverage. Enterprise adds a dedicated security engineer, remediation hours, SSO, MSA and DPA, and an SLA. Paid plans have a 12-month term even when billed monthly.
FailSafe’s strongest fit is for teams that want visibility and guidance without deploying agents or granting write access. Its connections, compliance mappings for NIST CSF, CIS v8, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, and continuous drift detection support recurring posture reviews. Higher tiers broaden the product from SaaS discovery into financial and endpoint coverage. However, the read-only access model means teams must handle remediation themselves, and no automated remediation is provided. Choose FailSafe for low-cost discovery, permission analysis, posture scoring, and monitoring; choose an alternative if automated corrective action is essential.
FailSafe pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Free discovery, posture scoring, and findings summary
- Read-only Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace connections
- Compliance mappings, drift alerts, and audit-ready reports
- Where it doesn't
- No automated remediation; access is read-only
- No free trial is currently offered
- Monthly paid plans have a 12-month term
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