# Adaptive Shield

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/adaptive-shield/  
**Website:** https://www.crowdstrike.com/platform/falcon-shield/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Adaptive Shield (now CrowdStrike Falcon Shield) is a SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) platform that continuously monitors, remediates, and governs SaaS application security configurations and identity risks. Acquired by CrowdStrike, the platform covers 200+ SaaS integrations with over 3,500 built-in security checks, helping organizations detect misconfigurations, manage human and non-human identities, discover shadow applications, and maintain compliance across their entire SaaS stack. The REST API (v1) enables programmatic access to alerts, user inventory, device inventory, integrations, security checks, and compliance data.

## Kin Score — 14.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 14.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Adaptive Shield REST API** — The Adaptive Shield REST API v1 provides programmatic access to SaaS security posture data including alerts, user and device inventory, integration configurations, security chec...

## Security (3)

- **Adaptive Shield Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Adaptive Shield Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Adaptive Shield Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR

## Plans (1)

- **Adaptive Shield Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **SaaS Security Posture Management** — Security teams can continuously monitor and remediate misconfigurations across the organization's entire SaaS stack from a single dashboard.
- **Identity Risk Detection** — Detect and remediate over-privileged users, dormant accounts, and suspicious login behavior across all connected SaaS applications.
- **Compliance Audit Automation** — Automate compliance evidence collection and posture monitoring for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and other frameworks across SaaS applications.
- **Third-Party App Risk Management** — Identify and assess risk from third-party OAuth apps and browser extensions connected to critical SaaS platforms.
- **Security Operations Integration** — Pull SaaS security alerts and posture data into SIEM and SOAR platforms via the REST API for unified security operations workflows.

## Tags

SaaS Security, SSPM, Security Posture Management, Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Identity Management, Compliance

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/adaptive-shield/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.