ORION Security Reviews & Product Details

What stands out most is how ORION moves away from the static, rule-based approach that most DLP tools rely on. Instead of maintaining an ever-growing library of content-match policies, it evaluates the full context around a data movement — destination, identity, and whether the behavior fits a normal pattern for that person — which cuts down significantly on false-positive noise compared to traditional policy-based DLP. When something does get flagged, the investigation view brings severity, detection score, timestamp, and data classification together in one place, so you're not piecing that together across tools. The AI-driven classification also handles unstructured data well — flagging sensitive material inside things like source code or internal documents, not just pattern-matching structured PII/PCI fields, which is where a lot of legacy DLP tools fall short.<br><br>A less obvious benefit is visibility into how people are sharing information with GenAI tools like ChatGPT — seeing the destination, content, and whether it fits an expected workflow turns that from a blind spot into something that can actually be monitored and governed.<br><br>On the practical side, initial deployment to first detections is fast, though pricing is quote-based rather than published, so it's worth budgeting time for that conversation with sales rather than expecting a self-serve price list.<br><br>Support has a lot of useful information that can easily be found online and accessed for the sake of self-troubleshooting, which I like.<br>Integrations allow you to discover shadow-it and messaging apps that are not allowed usually, which is necessary for modern work env. - to prevent data leakage and such<br>And of course the first detections 40-50 minutes since implementation - that is amazingly fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing opacity<br>The endpoint agent and browser extension operate close to everyday employee activity, which means real planning is needed for compatibility testing and rollout communication<br>It's scoped to DLP; it doesn't substitute for SSE, DSPM, SIEM, or endpoint security - reduces the burden but not eliminate it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Orion Security’s DLP has completely transformed how we manage sensitive data. What I like best is the seamless balance between state of the art protection and a user-friendly interface. It provides deep visibility into data movement across our entire network without slowing down our team’s productivity. The automated discovery, detections and classification features are top-tier, giving us a peace of mind that our intellectual property is secure at all times. It has also over time greatly reduced the number of false-positives and the amount our team spends on investigation and remediation. The product boast a rich integrations portfolio that the Orion team is constantly building upon allowing us to track all possible data movement.

The initial onboarding and ongoing support was on another level. I am extremely satisfied working with the amazing Orion team! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

N/A. Any feedback or feature requests we’ve shared have been addressed in a timely manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest structural difference I've found is that Orion is built around investigation and visibility first, where DG is built around rules and endpoint enforcement first. Discovery gives me a graph of where our data actually flows — sources on the left, destinations on the right, thickness = volume — so I can literally see "AI tools and personal email are eating our data" at a glance before I write a single policy. DG never gave me that macro picture; I found out what was happening by reading alerts one at a time.

The AI layer is the second real win for me, and it's threaded through everything rather than bolted on. I can build a policy by typing "block PII uploads to Dropbox" and it fills the whole wizard. I can query Discovery in plain English. Detections come with an AI Risk Score (0–10) broken into Context / Content / Entities / Anomaly, plus an AI Insights narrative explaining why it fired — and I can ask it follow-up questions. For my team's day-to-day triage burden coming off DG, that's the difference between reading raw event logs and getting a pre-written incident summary.

Third: Simulate before enabling. I can point a draft policy at historical data and see the blast radius before I turn it on. That alone has de-risked a lot of our Fortra-to-Orion cutover, because I can validate that a migrated rule matches the same traffic before it starts blocking people.

Fourth, noise control is a first-class feature here, not an afterthought — detections cluster related traces into one incident, there's a single sensitivity slider (Balanced by default), and Accept Risk lets me create time-boxed exceptions instead of permanently poking holes. Coming from a system I found too cumbersome, this is exactly the streamlining I was after.

And fifth, mitigation lives in the console: I can Notify the manager/actor, Revoke Access on external shares, and Delete File through CrowdStrike, all without leaving the detection. DG typically punted me to other tools for response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wouldn't say anything is least helpful. I would say that Orion is still in it's infancy and has a lot more potential than what's available now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ORION Security is the best-performing, best value, and most comprehensive DLP solution I have encountered in my career. The UX is simple and uncluttered while still providing the depth of information necessary for thorough analysis, and support is extremely responsive. When integrations do not exist the turnaround time to create them has been measurable in hours, not days. The AI delivers better insights and analysis than the dedicated MSP we had monitoring DLP previously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found anything to dislike yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use ORION Security every day for DLP monitoring and data visibility. It was straightforward to implement, and policy tuning is fast compared with other DLP products I have used. The monitoring helps me understand data activity, and the support team responds well when I need assistance. I also appreciate that the product continues to improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with most DLP products, ORION needs fine-tuning so that its policies fit our environment. The tuning process is easy, but it still requires time and regular review. I would like more guidance and ready-made options for common tuning scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like ORION Security's context-aware protection that takes into account how data is moving. The setup process was quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think ORION Security could improve by providing greater control over how organization-defined risk levels are handled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Excellence contextualization of findings with natural language and team orientation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

False positives are still present, mostly due to bugs. The experience around risky but mostly appropriate business data flows still isnt solved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.