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Executive Summary
Updated on Mar 9, 2023

We performed a comparison between Orca security and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: Orca Security and Wiz both offer easy deployment and setup with minimal maintenance requirements. Customers report that the deployment can be done in a matter of minutes.
  • Features: Customers can manage their cloud environments using the comprehensive cloud security solutions provided by both products. Orca Security provides visibility and classification of gaps and tasks in the cloud environment and features SideScanning for easy setup. Wiz offers a comprehensive vulnerability management module along with detection and inventory features. The CSPM module is easy to deploy and provides instant visibility into high-level risks.
  • Pricing: Orca Security offers competitive pricing based on the number of assets and environments. Wiz follows a usage-based pricing model that may increase over time.
  • Service and support: Both products provide their users with helpful implementation, integration, and troubleshooting assistance. Reviewers praised the customer service departments of both businesses.
  • ROI: Both Orca Security and Wiz offer strong ROI potential, allowing organizations to quickly and effectively identify and address security risks in their cloud environments.

Comparison Result: Based on the reviews provided by users, Orca Security comes out ahead of Wiz. This is due to the fact that Wiz has a potential pricing disadvantage compared to Orca Security, which offers competitive pricing based on the number of assets and environments.

To learn more, read our detailed Orca Security vs. Wiz Report (Updated: September 2023).
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Pros
"Orca provides X-ray vision into everything within the cloud properties, whereas normally, this would require multiple tools.""The most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use.""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 platform provides an agentless data collection facility that collects information directly from the cloud using APIs, with zero impact on performance.""The initial setup is very easy.""There are so many valuable features that I could list, but one that I appreciate is the PCI DSS compliance report.""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."

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"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution.""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 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.""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 automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at.""The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI.""The solution is very user-friendly."

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Cons
"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 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.""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.""The interface can be a bit cranky and sometimes takes a lot of time to load.""The solution could improve by making the dashboards more elaborative and more descriptive.""The presentation of the data in the dashboard is a little bit chaotic.""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.""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."

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"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.""We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform.""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.""Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes.""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 only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The most expensive solution is Palo Alto. They claim to be very robust. The next most expensive is Wiz, followed by Orca and all the rest."
  • "It is the cost of the visibility that you get. When you really sit down and think about what do you need to do to secure an environment with a low impact on the business, and you take a look out into the world, I think this tool is well justified around cost."
  • "While it's competitive with Palo Alto Prisma, I think Orca's list price is very high. I would advise Orca to lower it because, at that price, I might consider alternatives like Wiz, which also offers agentless services."
  • "The pricing depends on how many assets you have running in your cloud and how many environments you have. If you have a dev environment, test environment, and a production environment then it's really important that you have coverage for all of them."
  • "Overall, the pricing is reasonable and the discounts have been acceptable."
  • "I think their pricing model is aligned with market demand. Of course, Orca could probably better align their pricing model with the needs of smaller businesses as well as some larger-scale enterprises with millions of assets. But in all fairness, I think the Orca sales team has been accommodating and ensured that we're happy with the pricing."
  • "Orca is very competitive when compared to the alternatives and is not the most expensive in the market, that's for sure."
  • "We have a total of 25 licenses for this solution. The solution is on a pay-and-you-use model."
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  • "The pricing seems pretty simple. We don't have to do a lot of calculations to figure out what the components are. They do it by enabling specific features, either basics or advanced, which makes it easy to select."
  • "The pricing is fair. Some of the more advanced features and functionalities and how the tiers are split can be somewhat confusing."
  • "The pricing is fair and comparable to their competitors. The cost seems to be going up, which is a concern. There are potential savings from consolidating tools, but we're uncertain how Wiz's pricing will change over time."
  • "I wish the pricing was more transparent."
  • "The cost of the other solutions is comparable to Wiz."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Maybe the presentation of the data in the dashboard. It's a little bit chaotic. There is room for improvement.
    Top Answer:Our use case is very simple. Orca Security is used to monitor and have control over your client's cloud environment, specifically the CP-CFPM.
    Top Answer:Wiz and Lacework sucks... Buy Orca. 
    Top Answer:Whether or not the cost of third-party Cloud Security tools is justified would depend on your specific needs and budget. Suppose you are looking for a comprehensive Cloud Security solution that can… more »
    Top Answer: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… more »
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    Overview

    Orca Security is a cloud security platform that offers agentless data collection, vulnerability management, compliance dashboard, and continuous monitoring for AWS, GCP, and Azure accounts. Its Cloud Security Posture Management capability provides visibility into cloud environments and identifies threats and vulnerabilities. 

    Orca Security's automation and alerting capabilities simplify security and reduce overhead, while its non-intrusive approach enables monitoring of serverless applications and reduces attack surfaces. It provides a one-size-fits-all solution, simplifying security and reducing confusion and redundancy. Orca Security improves security by addressing high-risk threats first and providing assurance of coverage across multiple accounts.

    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

    • 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.

    • 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.
    • 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.

    Wiz is a highly efficient solution for data security posture management (DSPM), with a 100% API-based approach that provides quick connectivity and comprehensive scans of platform configurations and workloads. The solution allows companies to automatically correlate sensitive data with relevant cloud context, such as public exposure, user identities, entitlements, and vulnerabilities.This integration enables them to understand data accessibility, configuration, usage, and movement within their internal environments.

    Wiz's Security Graph delivers automated alerts whenever risks emerge, allowing teams to prioritize and address the most critical issues before they escalate into breaches. Furthermore, Wiz ensures rapid and agentless visibility into critical data across various repositories, enabling organizations to easily determine the location of their data assets.

    Wiz Features

    Wiz provides various features in the following categories:

    • Agentless Scanning: The solution can scan every layer of a cloud environment without requiring agents, managing the entire process and providing comprehensive visibility.

    • Workflow Integration: Users can create customized workflows within Wiz to identify and assign actions based on urgency, integrating them with ticketing systems for quick and efficient remediation.

    • Vulnerability Management: Wiz's vulnerability management modules provide detailed analytics and visibility across cloud systems, streamlining the manual process of vulnerability discovery. The automated attack path analysis helps identify risks and trace potential points of exposure, allowing users to understand and mitigate them effectively and proactively.

    • CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management): Wiz's CSPM module offers instant visibility into high-level risks to an enterprise’s cloud environment, covering all accounts without the need for agents.

    • Out-of-the-Box Reporting and Custom Queries: The service supports comprehensive reporting with asset context, allowing users to perform complex custom queries on the solution’s user-friendly interface.

    • Automation Roles and Dashboards: The solution facilitates automation by providing essential roles and dedicated dashboards that enable teams to understand security information quickly, even those with limited expertise.

    • Contextual Risk Evaluation: The service contextualizes the various components contributing to an issue, providing a risk evaluation framework that helps prioritize remediation efforts.

    • Security Graph and Visibility: Wiz's security graph offers visibility across the entire organization, even with multiple accounts, enabling users to understand their environment and assets effectively.

    The Benefits of Wiz

    Wiz offers the following benefits:


    • Comprehensive agentless scanning

    • Effective identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities

    • Streamlined vulnerability management

    • Robust reporting capabilities and customizable queries

    • Enhanced automation and role-based access control

    • Prioritized risk evaluation for efficient remediation

    • Security posture across multiple accounts

    Reviews from Real Users

    Kamran Siddique, VP Information Security at boxed.com, remarks his company has seen a ROI while using Wiz, as it simplifies the process by integrating multiple useful tools into one solution.

    According to a Senior Security Architect at Deliveroo, Wiz has given their company a fresh approach to vulnerability management, as Wiz's native integrations are extremely useful and paramount to the operational success of their platform.



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    Orca Security vs. Wiz
    September 2023
    Find out what your peers are saying about Orca Security vs. Wiz and other solutions. Updated: September 2023.
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    Orca Security is ranked 4th in Vulnerability Management with 12 reviews while Wiz is ranked 5th in Vulnerability Management with 9 reviews. Orca Security is rated 9.4, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Agentless approach makes it simple, reducing the number of tools we use, while rankings helps focus our engineers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing, so you can understand everything quickly". Orca Security is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Lacework, Tenable Vulnerability Management and AWS GuardDuty, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Lacework, Snyk and Aqua Cloud Security Platform. See our Orca Security vs. Wiz report.

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