We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management and Orca Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Orca Security is strong in container security and has an easy-to-use compliance dashboard. Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provides comprehensive 360 security and detailed reports and recommendations for errors. Orca Security could increase its coverage and provide code-level security checks, while also improving its collaboration with third-party vendors. Meanwhile, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management should enhance its reporting options, lower its price, and enhance its ability to investigate security events.
Service and Support: Orca Security's customer service receives positive feedback for their efficient and knowledgeable technical support staff, fast response times, and openness to receive feedback. In comparison, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has a mixed reputation, with some satisfied customers and others expressing dissatisfaction with technical support.
Ease of Deployment: Orca Security's initial setup is user-friendly, agentless, efficient, and requires minimal maintenance compared to Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management. While Check Point's setup is generally simple, it may require professional deployment and team collaboration.
Pricing: Orca Security has a straightforward and reasonable pricing system for setup costs, which includes all standard licensing fees and does not require any additional expenses for networking or computing. In comparison, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has a variable pricing and licensing system that is viewed differently by different users. While some consider the setup cost to be manageable and simple, others find it costly. CloudGuard's licensing model is based on the cloud infrastructure's size, which is seen by some as rigid and expensive.
ROI: Orca Security saves users money by replacing multiple solutions and offering a deep view into the environment with minimal IT knowledge required. On the other hand, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is priced higher but offers security and compliance solutions that can result in a 35% ROI growth rate.
Comparison Results: Orca Security is a preferred option over Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management due to its agentless approach, user-friendly interface, and competitive pricing. Its SideScanning feature is particularly impressive, providing excellent visibility into cloud environments. On the other hand, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has received mixed reviews regarding its customer service and support, and its pricing is considered expensive by some users.
"The mean time to detect has been reduced."
"The cloud misconfiguration is the most valuable feature."
"Cloud Native Security's best feature is its ability to identify hard-coded secrets during pull request reviews."
"It is fairly simple. Anybody can use it."
"PingSafe's most valuable feature is its unified console."
"We use the infrastructure as code scanning, which is good."
"The offensive security where they do a fix is valuable. They go to a misconfiguration and provide detailed alerts on what could be there. They also provide a remediation feature where if we give the permission, they can also go and fix the issue."
"We really appreciate the Slack integration. When we have an incident, we get an instant notification. We also use Joe Sandbox, which Singularity can integrate with, so we can verify if a threat is legitimate."
"The most valuable features are the ability to create pipeline rules, the enhanced NetOps security, and the deep visibility across our entire infrastructure."
"All of the features are very useful in today's market."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is the training."
"The most valuable features of CloudGuard CNAPP are its compliance engine and auto-remediation features."
"Helps identify and correct misconfigurations in cloud environments, ensuring that infrastructure and applications are secure and optimized."
"It has an analytics service that does research for us."
"Almost all the features are valuable, but the most important is proactive threat detection. The overall administration, seamless integration, and being able to have one platform for monitoring our applications for suspicious activities and any potential security threats are also valuable."
"The posture management and remediation features are the most valuable. We use GSL Builder to build custom rules in alignment with our organization's policies. CloudGuard has canned rules using multiple standard frameworks, but we also have additional rules."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Orca's dashboard is excellent. My team needs to be able to focus on specific areas for improvement in our cloud environment. And most recently, we've started to get good use out of sonar, the search capabilities, and the alert creation."
"The visibility Orca provides into my environment is at the highest level... When I dropped them into the environment, from the very get-go I had more insight into the risks in my environment than I had had during the entire two and a half years I had been here."
"Orca's SideScanning is the biggest feature. It's the 'wow' factor... With Orca's SideScanning, they just need permissions for your account and that makes it so simple."
"Orca gives you great visibility into your assets. It shows you the issues and the things that you need to attend to first, by prioritizing things. You can see a lot of information that is not always visible, even to DevOps, to help you know about the machines and their status. It's very easy to see everything in a single dashboard. That makes it a very useful tool."
"The most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"Another valuable feature with Orca, something that's not talked about enough, is its ability to rank your gaps and your tasks... You can get visibility with agents and there are a lot of ways to do that. But the ranking and the context across the entire environment, that is what is unique about Orca."
"Orca's platform provides an agentless data collection facility that collects information directly from the cloud using APIs, with zero impact on performance."
"One of the issues with the product stems from the fact that it clubs different resources under one ticket."
"We are getting reports only in a predefined form. I would like to have customized reports so that I can see how many issues are open or closed today or in two weeks."
"When you find a vulnerability and resolve it, the same issue will not occur again. I want PingSafe to block the same vulnerability from appearing again. I want something like a playbook where the steps that we take to resolve an issue are repeated when that issue happens again."
"The alerting system of the product is an area that I look at and sometimes get confused about. I feel the alerting feature needs improvement."
"Customized queries should be made easier to improve PingSafe."
"It took us a while to configure the software to work well in this type of environment, as the support documents were not always clear."
"There's room for improvement in the graphic explorer."
"The Kubernetes scanning on the Oracle Cloud needs to be improved. It's on the roadmap. AWS has this capability, but it's unavailable for Oracle Cloud."
"The software configurations theory is complicated, and without proper planning and a well-skilled technical team, it cannot perform its tasks properly."
"We have had some issues with the performance. In some cases, the performance of CloudGuard CNAPP is impacted. Particularly during the intensive security scans in high-traffic environments, there has been a performance impact."
"Streamlining the user interface would greatly improve the user experience."
"Reporting should have more options."
"The tool has a lot of potential, but today, it lacks a lot of Scripts/Bots for Azure."
"The support must be more effective."
"When rules change, it messes up the remediation. They haven't found a fix for that yet. The remediation rule goes into limbo. It's an architectural design flaw within their end compliance engine—a serious bug."
"We were demotivated by the lack of native automation modules for the Terraform and Ansible tools."
"We are PCI DSS compliant, so we need to scan our environment externally with tools vetted by the PCI DSS organization. Orca doesn't scan the environment externally. It only scans what's currently in the cloud."
"As with all software, the user interface can always be made simpler to use. It would be helpful for people with very little knowledge, like somebody sitting behind the SOC, to allow them to be able to drill down into things a little bit easier than it is currently."
"I would like to see an option to do security checks on a code level. This is possible because they have access to all of the code running in the cloud provider, and combining their site-scanning solution with that would be a nice add-on."
"I think Orca could give me more alerts. It could give me a dashboard with all the specific types of alerts I want to see for the day. It should just be one click."
"The main drawback in an agentless approach is that if the solution detects a virus or malware in the environment, we need to manually remove it. But from my experience with other production environments, it's not straightforward to install agents in the hope they will automatically remediate viruses, even from production environments... Ultimately, the ability to auto-remediate is something that I would like to see."
"It's not all clouds that they are currently onboarded with. For instance, they are not yet with public cloud and many other private clouds."
"I would be happy if they offered more automatic remediation options. They're working on that, but the more the better. For example, if they want you to harden a server, they would offer a hardening script that would be more aware of what's going on."
"The presentation of the data in the dashboard is a little bit chaotic."
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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 4th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 64 reviews while Orca Security is ranked 8th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 15 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6, while Orca Security is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Tenable Cloud Security, whereas Orca Security is most compared with Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs. Orca Security report.
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