We performed a comparison between Orca Security and Tenable.sc based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Tenable.sc stands out for its risk-based approach, advanced scanning, and asset discovery, while Orca Security shines in cloud visibility, container security, and non-intrusive vulnerability management. Both platforms have user-friendly dashboards, but Tenable.sc has the advantage in terms of compliance and vulnerability scans. Tenable.sc has areas for improvement in terms of penetration testing, pricing, ticketing, GUI, reporting, vendor training, and accuracy. On the other hand, Orca Security could improve their offerings in terms of host intrusion detection, risk assessment in real-time, coverage expansion, education, UI simplification, and alert options.
Service and Support: Tenable.sc's customer service has varying opinions, while Orca Security's support is highly regarded for being responsive and customer-focused.
Ease of Deployment: Tenable.sc takes up to three weeks for on-prem deployment, but the initial setup is generally easy. On the other hand, Orca Security's setup is incredibly easy and can be completed in a matter of hours or even minutes, making it highly rated and exceeding expectations. Additionally, there are no agents to install with Orca Security.
Pricing: Tenable.sc charges based on IP addresses and has additional costs for advanced support, while Orca Security includes standard licensing fees with no added costs. Orca's pricing model is flexible and aligned with market demand, with potential discounts available. Some find Tenable's pricing to be expensive compared to competitors. Orca may be expensive for smaller organizations, but is recommended for those managing cloud infrastructure.
ROI: Tenable.sc can save on manpower costs and offers a positive ROI. Orca Security can replace multiple solutions and save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Additionally, Orca Security is simpler to use and provides a comprehensive view of the environment.
Comparison Results: Tenable.sc is the better choice when compared to Orca Security, as per the user reviews. It has comprehensive features, accurate vulnerability detection, and a risk-based approach. Although Orca Security is praised for its ease of use and agentless approach, Tenable.sc's pricing and licensing are more reasonable and affordable, especially for larger organizations.
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"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."
"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."
"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 provides X-ray vision into everything within the cloud properties, whereas normally, this would require multiple tools."
"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 Security has updated its interface, making it more user-friendly. I find it particularly useful as it allows me to easily navigate the dashboard and prioritize actions based on severity and criticality."
"There are so many valuable features that I could list, but one that I appreciate is the PCI DSS compliance report."
"Their overall cost of service is pretty good."
"The scanning part, the agent part – that's the valuable aspect."
"The solution has a lean and easy-to-use interface that is not confusing to first-time users."
"It is a very good and user-friendly product."
"One of the most valuable features is their distributed scan model for allotting engines to work together as a pool and handle multiple scans at once, across multiple environments. Automatic scanning distribution is a distinguishing feature of their toolset."
"The solution is completely stable and operation is user-friendly."
"The tool provides us insight into the happens of the network and its hosts. It provides me with a list of hosts."
"Tenable SC is good for reporting and alerting. The filtering feature is also very valuable. Its integration with multiple vendors is quite good. It can be integrated with SIEM solutions and PAM solutions such as Thycotic, which is very helpful."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboards more elaborative and more descriptive."
"I would like to see better customization options for security frameworks and better integration with reporting tools like Power BI or Grafana dashboards."
"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."
"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."
"Another improvement would be that, in addition to focusing on endpoint compliance, they would focus on general compliance."
"In the future, I'd like to see Orca work better with third-party vendors. Specifically, being able to provide sanitized results from third parties."
"There were a couple of times when Orca was down when I was trying to access it. I work strange hours because all of my team is in the UK right now. It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday and I was trying to log in but it wasn't working. But relative to my other security tools, Orca is definitely the most stable that I've seen."
"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."
"Tenable SC can improve by adding more integrations with HCI-type tools and more accurate vulnerability detection."
"The tool's initial configuration is not so easy."
"Tenable SC can improve by making it easier to create complicated reports and have more effectiveness in the remediation area for comparison between the scans."
"The web application scanning area can be improved."
"If I want to have a very low-managed scan policy, it's a lot of work to create something which is very basic. If I use a tool like Nmap, all I have to do is download it, install it, type in the command, and it's good to go. In Security Center, I have to go through a lot of work to create a policy that's very basic."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."
"We experienced some difficulties with the solution’s support."
Orca Security is ranked 7th in Vulnerability Management with 14 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Orca Security is rated 9.4, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". Orca Security is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Tenable Vulnerability Management, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and Lacework, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM and Forescout Platform. See our Orca Security vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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