The Orca Security Platform is a cloud-based platform that provides an end-to-end security solution for organizations. Orca helps to identify and prevent cyber attacks by scanning the network and identifying any vulnerabilities and breaches in the system. It also provides a detailed report of all the threats found on the system. It protects data from being compromised by encrypting it at all levels of storage and transmission. It also provides continuous monitoring of the system through its advanced AI engine, which detects any anomalies in your network activity while alerting you to them. The platform acts as a single agentless security tool that visualizes all cloud assets to detect security risks at every layer and prioritizes them.
Orca Security has the capacity to detect zero-day attacks and can be used for endpoint protection. It also manages general IT security, ensuring that systems are up to date with the latest security patches.
Orca offers deeper visibility into AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud without agents’ operational costs. The solution uses SideScanning technology to check for:
- System vulnerabilities
- Lateral movement risk
- Malware
- Misconfigurations
- IAM risk
- Compromised data
Orca protects different forms of cloud assets, including serverless, containers, VPCs, keys, storage buckets, paused or stopped workloads, VMs, and devices that cannot support agents.
Orca Security Goals
Orca’s agentless cloud security tool is used to achieve three main goals:
- Manage multi-cloud environments
- Demonstrate regulatory compliance
- Perform security due diligence
Orca Security SideScanning Benefits
Orca offers agentless cloud security with a patent-pending technology called SideScanning. SideScanning is a ground-breaking technology that is designed to find data leaks by passively monitoring the network perimeter for malicious activity. The technology is an enhancement to traditional network perimeter security. Its purpose is to provide a seamless view of the entire network, including endpoints, servers and infrastructure components. The success of Orca’s SideScanning technology lies in its ability to reduce the need for multiple tools to perform cloud vulnerability management.
Orca Security Benefits
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Agentless: SideScanning collects data externally. This is unlike parasitic agents that sit inside your workload. Orca creates a complete risk profile of your cloud estate in minutes by using read-only access to the workloads’ runtime block storage.
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Unified data model: Orca combines workload-deep intelligence with cloud configuration metadata in order to build a visual risk context map of your entire cloud estate. This enables you to quickly discover all potential critical attack vectors.
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Full visibility: Without running code or sending a single packet over the network, Orca’s SideScanning allows you to achieve complete visibility and coverage. This results in zero downtime and no impact on users or workloads.
Reviews from Real Users
Orca Security stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to provide powerful dashboard visibility and its ability to gather specific intelligence through simple queries. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:
Shahar M., CISO at a recruiting firm, notes, “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.”
Ty S., chief security and trust officer at SiSense, writes, “Seeing all vulnerabilities and configurations is really powerful for us, but ultimately, the ability to use the API to query across the fleet to understand what is the current state, what is the patch level, which ones are potentially exposed for a new CVE that just came out is even more valuable. It allows us to gather really specific intelligence through simple queries.”
