# Orca Security Reviews **Vendor:** Orca Security **Category:** [Cloud Workload Protection Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-workload-protection-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 257 ## About Orca Security The Orca Cloud Security Platform identifies, prioritizes, and remediates risks and compliance issues in workloads, configurations, and identities across your cloud estate spanning AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Orca offers the industry’s most comprehensive cloud security solution in a single platform — eliminating the need to deploy and maintain multiple point solutions. Orca is agentless-first, and connects to your environment in minutes using Orca’s patented SideScanning™ technology that provides deep and wide visibility into your cloud environment, without requiring agents. In addition, Orca can integrate with third-party agents for runtime visibility and protection for critical workloads. Orca is at the forefront of leveraging Generative AI for simplified investigations and accelerated remediation – reducing required skill levels and saving cloud security, DevOps, and development teams time and effort, while significantly improving security outcomes. As a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), Orca consolidates many point solutions in one platform, including: CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, Vulnerability Management, Container and Kubernetes Security, DSPM, API Security, CDR, Multi-cloud Compliance, Shift Left Security, and AI-SPM. ## Orca Security Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Orca Security, enjoying its straightforward navigation and quick implementation. (37 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive interface** of Orca Security, making it easy to use without a learning curve. (33 reviews) - Users commend Orca Security for its **comprehensive cloud security capabilities** , providing valuable insights and ease of use. (29 reviews) - Users appreciate the **user-friendly interface** of Orca Security, making navigation and in-depth findings effortless. (22 reviews) - Users value the **comprehensive visibility** offered by Orca Security, enhancing their cloud security management and resource identification. (22 reviews) - Users appreciate the **comprehensive scanning** capabilities of Orca Security, providing clear visibility and prioritization of risks. (21 reviews) - Integrations (21 reviews) - Customer Support (20 reviews) - Users value Orca Security's **quick integration and effective vulnerability detection** , providing visibility to enhance cloud security. (20 reviews) - Comprehensive Security (19 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find that **improvement is needed** in compliance module speeds, CSV export functionality, and documentation accessibility. (15 reviews) - Users highlight the **feature limitations** of Orca Security, noting challenges with vulnerability reporting and asset scanning. (12 reviews) - Users are frustrated with Orca Security's **limited features** , particularly regarding slow compliance modules and insufficient asset support. (10 reviews) - Users note several **missing features** in Orca Security, hindering functionality and complicating various essential tasks. (10 reviews) - Users experience **ineffective alerts** from Orca Security, leading to confusion and alert fatigue due to overwhelming information. (9 reviews) - Inefficient Alert System (9 reviews) - Users experience **poor reporting** in Orca Security, with limited dashboard info and inconsistent data outputs causing frustration. (9 reviews) - Security Vulnerabilities (9 reviews) - Slow Scanning (9 reviews) - False Positives (8 reviews) ## Orca Security Reviews ### 1. Great vulnerability management platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor M. | Risk and Compliance Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Orca Security is revolutionizing cloud security with its innovative features, including the newly introduced shift-left functionality and AI-driven analysis. This shift-left approach allows for early scanning of code security, significantly reducing vulnerabilities in the development phase. Coupled with AI features, Orca provides a more intelligent and proactive security posture. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Wish for more automatic remediation options. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerabilitymanagement, FIM, code scanning, among others Consolidation of different tools in one dashboard (integrations) ### 2. Great Product With A Ton of Insight **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** It is an easy product to manage and implement. The customer support is also phenomenal. The Orca application will discover all of the issues in your environments. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** It is a bit confusing to navigate and I do like the legacy ui better but the benefits greatly out weigh this issue. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is able to find both AWS/Azure/OCI security concerns and also vulnerabilties associated with assets. ### 3. Simplicity drives security **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** The ease of integration to our cloud environments allows us to get complete visibility of our inventory, compliance, and identifying various risks across our cloud estate right from the go. Strong support for multi-cloud enterprise. Ability to integrate with a variety of 3rd party enterprise applications allows it to seamlessly incorporate into the workflows of cross-functional teams. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Lack of relevant information on the dashboard. No time-series graphs to show progress in key security areas. Key features are riddled with bugs. Vulnerability management module suffers from the inability to accurately export relevant data. No visibility on when the daily scans occur, and when the scanned information synced to the database & are picked up in by the various modules (eg. alert, inventory, discovery) that consumes the data Lack of synergy between customer support team and product delivery. Product issues are not resolved on a timely basis. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca's agentless solution allows us to focus on fixing a security risk instead of chasing integration status. ### 4. Great product with interesting product roadmap **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** It's simplicity and understanding of what its customers want out of the product **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** What i dislike about Orca is that its scheduled reporting lost some features **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca is identifying the vulnerabilities in the organization's cloud environment which allows me to prioritize and remediate those vulnerabilities ### 5. Review Orca Security for Cloud Workload **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Orca is a great tool to describe our cloud security posture. I like it that it supports the major cloud vendors - Azure, AWS, Google. I like it that it is also able to show vulnerabilities in a great dashboard. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** The dashboard can perform slowly at times. Saving of views seems quirky. Some bugs need to be addressed. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visibility into our multiple Cloud workload in terms of security, vulnerabilities, best practices, etc. ### 6. Orca Security is building a really nice tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** The interface is good but not as intuitive as I would expect from a tool like this but you can find what you need in a couple of clicks. Customer support from the other side is great. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** As mentioned, the interface is modern but not that intuitive. It is a bit hard to find information about a vulnerable package or file location for example in the web GUI. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Orca Security we have a nice overview of vulnerable packages, end-of-live operational systems and so without installing extra agents or software on the servers or virtual machines. ### 7. Great product with solid after the sale support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** A well designed UI and constant scanning of our accounts is our favorite feature. The scoring of risks and alerts is also well thought out and easy to review. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** A minor thing but would like to see more frequent security news items and updates tailored to our environment. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us prioritize risk and work on remediations ### 8. Orca security review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Orca has been great for our cloud infra security in terms of ROI given it's ease of maintenance. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** The shift-left feature set can use some work to enable code-to-cloud capabilities **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** we needed a easy to maintain and trustable solution to monitor and protect our cloud infra and orca does exactly that ### 9. Easy deployment with excellent prioritization of alerts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** The platform is easy to deploy and provides appropriate context aware prioritization out of the box. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** It can be difficult to dive into details and it could up 24 hours for changes to be reflected in the platform. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Orca Security platform is monitoring for cloud security misconfiguration and vulnerability management of workloads. ### 10. Easy to implement, incredibly detailed, offers great piece of mind **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** There is such a low barrier to implementation, and it gives you actionable insights as well as great remediation steps in no time at all. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** It's easy to spawn lots of tabs as each click through opens a new window. It can make navigation confusing, but that's picking really picky! **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being in a highly regulated environment, we need to ensure we are identifying and responding to threats, emerging issues and ensuring our configuration is secure. The Dashboards and reports allow us to give management information to our audit, risk and assurance boards that shows a realistic cyber security posture and an understanding of the effort taken to keep us secure. Previoulsy, we used multiple tools and services, but still had blind spots. The Orca agentless service interogates our entire cloud estate and gives is real peace of mind as a result. ### 11. New Orca Cloud Security User **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Orca Security is very easy to use for new user or organization. The platform is intuitive. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** While orca ofers deep visbility, managing such an extensive platform without enmterprise support can be overwhelming. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comprehensive Coverage: It provides holistic visiblity across workloads, containers, and cloud infrastructure. ### 12. Innovative and understands what customers need **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laurentius P. | Senior Platform Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Helpful: Feature rich on security. Upsides: - Great documentation - Vendor integration **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Least helpful: Downsides: - Some of the sections of the application takes time to load - When copy and paste an Orca specific URL (document), if clients are not logged in yet, it will force us to log in or SSO, but it did not keep the initial URL that we paste - It would be great in Alert section, on the left nav, adding Asset K8s in cluster in addtion to Asset K8s Namespace - When displaying the alert, ie. GKE cluster has an unsupported master node version, it will be great to dispaly in "client face" what GKE version and what is/are that available for upgrade **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secret detection, Vulnerability scan, integration with other frameworks. All of these are important for us internally for security reason, as well as customers requirements. ### 13. Orca Security Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** It has a useful dashboard and general user interface. It alerts on the most important issues. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** I am new to the product and I do not dislike anything so far. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives us the necessary alerts needed to help keep our environment safe. ### 14. Agentless Security to Scale in the Cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** A comprehensive cloud security platform that operates without agents, offering complete visibility into the entire environment. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Sometimes the risk scoring of already open alerts changes dynamically, requiring us to recalibrate our remediation efforts. I would like to have the ability to access a history of alerts and vulnerabilities for a specific asset, allowing us to compare its risk status timeline. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now have a complete cloud security platform that functions without agents, providing 100% visibility and different capabilities in one single tool. ### 15. Orca vulnerability tracking user analyst **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** It is most helpful that it easily identifies the VM owner when a vulnerability is alerted **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** The lack of customizable alert notifications and reporting has been difficult **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca is notifying when there are critical vulnerabilities on our local cloud servers ### 16. Ease of use and great visibility **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Orca provides a great visibilty on our cloud assets, detects what needs to be improved and most important alerts on the severe findings that may be very risky. Also, provides easy implementation and pretty simple guided process to add more cloud accounts to the subscription. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** I would improve the calculation of the subscription and allow to exclude from the subscription the irrelevant assets types without engaging with the account manager. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca presents in one place all the insights on our cloud assets in the different environments in multiple cloud vendors. This provides a great visibility and configuring alerts to be sent to all stakeholders upon detection. ### 17. Next-Gen CPSM, Vulnerability Management, IAM Risk Manager and Cloud Compliance Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge B. | Chief Information Security Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** I like the change to get a full overview of the security of my cloud environment using only one tool. It is easy to use and implementation was done in les than an hour. Customer support is pretty fast even for the standard support levels. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** It is a little expensive, which might make the tool prohibitive for small companies. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca is providing us visibility about cloud risks. It has helped us identify issues that we did not even know we had. ### 18. Security engineer's perspective **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Very intuitive, looks great, and easy to use **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** might be a little expensive for small businesses **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Viewing the cloud posture, vulnerabilities, and how to resolve them. ### 19. Cloud Security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Agentless install makes it very easy to deploy and Orca releases new features on a monthy basis. The newer consolidated host view has a good over view of the security posture of any particular cloud asset. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** The UI can be confusing at times and needs to be simplified. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Orca for complete visibility in my cloud from the configuration settings in the cloud to the vulnerabilities in the VM's and containers. ### 20. Ocra Security for AWS MultiAccount Security Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Extrem detailed alerts from hundreds of categories with the ability to customize and categorize alerts, track imprvement. The dashboard is fanstatic. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** When we change a high level orca alert to a low level priority, when a new but similar high level ocra alert is found, it does not automatically put it as a low level alert for us. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca is helping us solve complex AWS IAM permissions for least privialged access roles. ### 21. The solution allow enterprise to consolidate Cloud topic with Security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PY P. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Easy to deploy and easy to have a deep visibility on your cloud infrastructure **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Would be great to have a kind of SIEM on CDR part. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Global visibility withjout any interference with Cloud team ### 22. Orca has been doing really great in providing information on CSPM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akashj B. | Senior security eng, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** CSPM, vuln, cloud misconfingg and what not **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** SCA can be better, we are seeing many things missing on SCA **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** CSPM, it's giving us insight on things that we missed during cloud setup ### 23. Great Product for a quick win regarding all things AWS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Donny N. | Information Security Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Easy implementation Launch. Quick Win. The overall purchase and onboarding of this product have been exceptional. The countless number of features and easy of SSO Integration were simple. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** I don't have anything bad to say about this product. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS insight is critical to ensure the environment not only has controls but we can also leverage the compliance piece of the tool to find what gaps we have. ### 24. User Friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Automatically capturing vulnerabilities and Alerts **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Search should be improved by providing custom grouping filter **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** To identify the assets which are having vulnerabilities and to solve them ### 25. Simple to integrate, easy to secure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** I like how quickly Orca can integrate into our Cloud infrastructure and begin to identify issues we need to address. Once you see the issues from a micro and macro standpoint you can begint to really tackle them wholestically. They also consistently work with us to show us new features and help us solve the problems we need help solving. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Well the price will undoubted keep climbing with new features and functionality. However, I wish it was easier to understand how to setup the automation aspects. That is something the team is just hesitant to work on and use. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It detects Identity issues, vulnerabilites , and data security risks in one place. ### 26. Orca brought more robustness in the monitoring of applications in the Cloud. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Agility and efficiency in monitoring. Dashboard easy to customize. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** There is still a lack of plugins for other types of cloud that are not supported at the moment. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerability management, threat analysis. ### 27. Finally I can get accurate security impact estimations before creating infrastructure! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmitry R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Shift-left. This is brilliant. You get to have proper infrastructure scanning AND infrastrucute as code analisis on pull request stage. I can't stress enough how important it is. If you create GKE cluster and want it to be secure, without shift-left you'll have to recreate it multiple times. With shift-left you only create it once. Super easy to add new clouds and projects, super easy to implement scan in them, even with terraform. We are using it on daily basis. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** No issues with the service itself, I'd love to see Vanta integration for sure. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** I get fast and accurate notifications about infrastructure issues and vulnerabilities, instructions how to fix them (to some extent), easy to use UI. ### 28. Great visibility **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** To gain full visibilty in cloud environments **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Vuln sources / False positives GUI Documentation **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visibilty about the cloud security posture ### 29. New Setup of Orca Security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** The responsiveness of the tool while providing the ability to examine findings from numerous prospectives was very impressive. The method in which the data is collected and maintained accuracy, while providing numerous remediation methods across varying IaC platforms, how findings tie back to Cyber Control Policies and summaries of how and why findings are rated provides a total package of a Cloud Security Posture Mgmt tool Configuration Setup had clear, easy instructions on setup, and Orca's Customer Care Support team was responsive and knowledgable Upon setup, the tool was immediatly and regularly put to use as a core component in Cyber Posture assessment. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Part Orca's strength is the ability to examine finding from many different prospectives. By Cyber Control family, cloud provider platform, or by grouped accounts deemed higher or lower of importance. This takes some training and regular use of the tool as simular view points can be achieved by numerous methods. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca immediatly helped with prioritization of findings for resolution and dashboards for easy to produce reports to DevSecOps or Management overview. ### 30. Easy to use and accurate in covered resources, lacking some coverage areas **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sinay B. | DevOps/SRE Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Well thought UI and accurate resource discovery. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Issues with integration with AKS private clusters **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast vulnerability findings, helpful in planning security maintenance ### 31. Great product that guides you through securing your environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan W. | IT Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** My favorite feature of Orca is being able to generate remediation steps depending on how you interact with the machine. It also has a dynamic security rating that is based on more factors than just the CVSS. Connecting our environment was also very easy to do thanks to their onboarding and support. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** It can be overwhelming at first until you create a custom view or become familiar with the interface. There is also no dark mode but that is pretty minor for me. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is keeping track of our handful of machines and helping us be aware of any security issues as well as show us how it can be used to traverse our infrastructure. ### 32. Cloud Security Excellence **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shahrukh S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Orca Security has a great platform with lots of features that make cloud security better. It has an easy to use dashboard to check for problems and sends alerts in real-time. Orca works with many cloud providers and has features like Cloud Security Posture Management and Container Security. It uses Generative AI to make things easier. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Less filter options in creating Dashboard **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca Security really helps us with our cloud security. It gives us a clear view of our risks in the cloud. Orca alerts us right away if there's a possible threat, so we can act fast to stay safe. Overall, Orca Security is great product for cloud security work smoothly ### 33. CSPM at it's best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kartik Rajeev G. | Senior IT Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** OrcaSecurity's data driven approach is really good, the amount of data it can scrape and provide insight itself is intriguing. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** It needs a bit improvement on it's end suer data usability. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's agentless meethod of scanning decreases the overhead of installing agents on different server and seamless data gathering. It benifits us a lot to read and resolve the gaps we had in the whole cloud coverage. ### 34. An Agentless Low Touch Approach to Effective Vulnerability Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** I embrace the ease of an agentless low touch approach to configuration, implementation, and integration as it sets a strong standard in the industry in terms of time to value. Moreover, the insights and shift-left capabilities that are provided out of box are a game changer. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** A more refined RBAC model that allows me to provide access to dashboard insights for Product Owners that captures and comunicates risk and impact to the LOB. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca provides a single pane of gllass across a spectrum of security concerns that quickly illuminates our overall risk posture. ### 35. The solution is incredible. Easy deployment and full visibility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** The ability to understand the risks of the cloud environment with its main threats and how we can remediate in an automated way. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** So far no difficulty encountered in usability **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the visibility and exposure of my environment and the ability through templates to correct in an automated way. ### 36. Find Vulnerabilities Even Software Vendors Miss **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Excellent detection capabilities led to the detection of Log4J hidden in a Zip file inside of a Zip file that even our software vendor did not detect. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Product would be improved with an option of agent based scanning for even improved run-time protection. Hoping this will be on the roadmap. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to scan multiple public clouds platforms and workloads via a single, consolidated interface. How to prioritize and remedy threats. Orca made this possible and is easy to use making our administration effort easy. ### 37. My experience with Orca Security has been pretty great overall **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Orca has a lot of great features and and is very intuitive to use and integrate new machines onto the account. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Orca Security does not have the capability to support on-prem systems. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca is mainly helping in identifying vulnerabilities in the organizations cloud assets. ### 38. Hassle free security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** How incredibly easy it is to get up and running. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** We are not 100% cloud, so it doesn't cover everything we need to monitor. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plays a huge roll in security visibility and helps us meet the needs for SOC 2 compliance. ### 39. Great product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** It's lightweight, and simple to implement. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Getting information on exactly what the impact would be across aws services added some time to implementation and planning **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a unified tool for security across our AWS ecosystem ### 40. Excellent tool for identifying potential vulnerabilities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** I like that Orca works from within your network and is able to find any areas of concern, rather than running externally and only finding open vulnerabilities. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** There were a number of false positives, and some recommended fixes and patches that did not work. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We discontinued service with our previous vulnerability scanner after years of receiving monthly audits with no results (which is a good thing). Orca was able to scan from inside our network and point us to areas of concern, and helped us with GDPR compliance. ### 41. Orca Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** The Security Features are perfect for Cloud Security. We use Orca for scanning our cloud accounts in AWS, GCP and Azure. Orca has some great Cloud Security features: Vulnerability Management, CSPM, and Shift Left Security. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Sometimes the Engineered solutions seems to have issues. All of these are addressed in the new Orca architecture (Serving Layer 2). **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud Scanning for Vulnerabilities and Shift Left Security. ### 42. Flexibilité et bonne technique **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samuel C. | directeur des opérations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** the offer is very customer-oriented, flexible, and reliable **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** the pricing model during the contract **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** the re-billing during the year ### 43. Sales experience with orca **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** romain h. | Channel sales manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** The platform and the compliance on cybersecurity rules **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** nothing about orca on the tehcnology platform **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compliance and cybersecurities issues ### 44. Orca cloud security solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maneesh G. | SOC and data security admin, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Alerts, compliance, agentless approach, lateral movement, priortization of alerts, 100 % coverage etc these are the main features are excellent. easy to integrate. good customer support. easy to impelement the solution. very easy to use. i am using from last one year. Very good experience. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** sometime tool failed to load modules in identity and access management, and scoring system need to change **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** overall cloud risk is solving by orca ### 45. A practical and reliable tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sébastien G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Allows an agentless scan of our entire cloud infrastructure and improves the security of our environment daily. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Do not have a VM agent outside the cloud provider, which restricts usage to a part of the information system. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows the detection of CVEs, proposes corrections. Allows scanning of containers. Provides a first draft on numerous compliance certifications. ### 46. Excellent CSPM/CWPP with great onboarding and features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Logan G. | Senior Security Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** 100% visibility into cloud assets with both broad and deep vulnerability detection (along with contextual information to assist in prioritization). **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Findings aren't grouped for scaled assets so alert volume can rapidly increase **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed full cloud asset visibility and automatic vulnerability detection. We're working towards automatic remediation and shifting left, both of which are Orca features. ### 47. A complete assessment and defined priorities in less than 24 hours **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geoffroy V. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** The platform is very intuitive and does not require extensive training to set it up and understand the initial results. In less than 24 hours, a complete overview of our cloud was provided and priorities were defined. The dashboard provides great clarity and relevant metrics. Orca also offers possible resolutions recommended by AI. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** The KPIs showing the evolution over time could be a bit more refined. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orca, in 24 hours, provided a clear and precise result as well as priorities, while we had been trying to implement tools by ourselves for several months. ### 48. end to end cloud security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sathish k. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** one of the best all in one suite i ever used so far seemless and its abudance of features helps us to get our hygenie report quickly and helped us on our pre audit. easy integrations and implementation since its agentless. customer support is one of the best i have seen compared to other big players. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** UI should be improved and they are working on it **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** entire cloud security findings its helping us >90% issues found due to our own lack of understanding or operational use. reporting helps us to know where we are ### 49. Simple and Easy Product to improve our Cloud Security Posture. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Prirotizes which one to work and easy setup. **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Consitently updates in web platform and i see staus page alerts for Increased Delay / Elevated Errors in Asset Scanning or something once a month. **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Show us our Security Posture tying to Compliance, Provide us which assest is at risk for latest CVE threads. ### 50. Easy on-boarding, massively effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Orca Security?** Orca is super-easy to set up, being agentless - and their engagement managers are very helpful. Once on, it shines - the whole landscape of attack surface-related issues are "in your face", easy to comprehend and address. It integrates with Jira in just a few clicks, it allows adding people and providing necessary visibility easily, and UX is really slick and useful **What do you dislike about Orca Security?** Its pricing model is based on VMs - which is not only outdated in the world of highly containerized and vertical serverless cloud configurations, but also impedes effective deployment on large legacy accounts with many VMs on them. Granted, Orca folks makes all they can easy, being flexible and helpful, but if there is one thing I dislike about Orca, it is this pricing model **What problems is Orca Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a really good "one click" security posture evaluation tool - immediately showing the wealth of issues related to attack surface, as they propagate through enterprise tech landscape tiers ## Orca Security Discussions - [Where is Orca security based?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/where-is-orca-security-based) - 2 comments - [How much does Orca security cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-orca-security-cost) - 1 comment - [What is ORCA platform?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-orca-platform) - 1 comment - [What does Orca Security do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-orca-security-do) - 1 comment - [View Orca Security pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/orca-security/reviews?page=3&qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-22+03%3A24%3A04+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fc8338a7-bd85-4ce5-9a7a-1deda6af6961&secure%5Btoken%5D=93b0791f2b5d3a47f1454b1ada28fd94cc72aba119aeb46afb3e1b9d6270830b&format=llm_user) ## Orca Security Integrations - 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DevSecOps Integrations - Unified Visibility **Functionality - AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) Tools** - Security Ecosystem Integration - AI Asset Discovery - Adaptive Policy Updates - Access and Permissions Monitoring - Policy Enforcement **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Operations** - Governance - Logging and Reporting - API / Integrations **Monitoring** - Continuous Image Assurance - Behavior Monitoring - Observability **Compliance** - Governance - Data Governance - Sensitive Data Compliance **Network** - Compliance Testing - Perimeter Scanning - Configuration Monitoring **Security Testing** - Compliance Monitoring - API Verification - API Testing **Visibility** - Multicloud Visibility - Asset Discovery **Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)** - Monitoring - AI-based detection **Artificial Intelligence - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)** - Intelligent remediations and suggestions - Risk prioritization - Anomaly detection using machine learning **Risk Assessment - AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) Tools** - AI Risk Assessment - AI Asset Posture Scoring **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Security Controls ** - Anomaly Detection - Data Loss Prevention - Security Auditing - Cloud Gap Analytics **Protection** - Dynamic Image Scanning - Runtime Protection - Workload Protection - Network Segmentation **Administration** - Policy Enforcement - Auditing - Workflow Management **Application** - Manual Application Testing - Static Code Analysis - Black Box Testing **Security Management** - Security and Policy Enforcement - Anomoly Detection - Bot Detection **Vulnerability Management** - Threat Hunting - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Risk-Prioritization **Auditing - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)** - Visibility - Compliance Reporting **Cloud Configuration Management - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)** - Multi-cloud visibility - Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) **Governance & Compliance - AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) Tools** - AI‑Generated Content Controls - Audit Trails **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics **Agentic AI - Vulnerability Scanner** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning **Agentic AI - Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Services - Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) ** - Managed Services ## Top Orca Security Alternatives - [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (784 reviews) - [Microsoft Defender for Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (281 reviews) - [FortiCNAPP](https://www.g2.com/products/forticnapp/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (383 reviews)