Orca Security CNAPP Cloud Security Platform

I use Orca Security  to analyze misconfiguration and to alert our SOC team when a misconfiguration occurs in our environment so that we can open an incident and solve it.

For example, we have one alert that triggers when a security group is created and a resource is created and exposed to the internet without an ACL  attached on the resource and with the security group allowing any IP from the internet to access the resource.

We have created some custom alerts, and we are trying to create some automatic remediation using Orca Security . However, we need to open a ticket to support Orca Security to inform them that we need it, and it will go to the development team, which is not ideal for us as a customer.

I use the risk score related to our vulnerability management program in Orca Security to analyze and prioritize how to fix issues and what we need to fix first. Any resources that have a risk score more than seven are critical for us, and we prioritize the fix accordingly.

I use Orca Security in our public cloud environment.

Using Orca Security, I have visibility in our environment without depending on another team. I can connect our AWS  accounts and our cloud accounts directly on the platform, allowing me to see and analyze our environment automatically.

We use AWS , Azure , and GCP.

I find that using the AI search feature is particularly valuable, as you do not need extensive knowledge of the platform to identify resources and define what you need to find.

The vision related to security frameworks is very valuable for us, and we use that to be compliant with standards such as PCI DSS. The way to create dashboards is very useful for us as well.

It is easy for us to have one place to check things, and when we need to create some report for our teams or for another team, we use these compliance visuals to see what is compliant and what is not compliant.

Orca Security can improve the way that a customer can create auto-remediation without depending on support to do that. Perhaps creating one space to implement a script or to create the auto-remediation inside the platform without support would be beneficial.

I have been using the solution for the last two years.

Orca Security is stable.

We used the Prisma solution from Palo Alto in the past, and I believe we changed to Orca Security because of the price that Orca Security offered. However, that is not something that relates directly to me, so I am not certain about that.

My use cases for Orca Security  include working with the sales team and the pre-sales team to offer Orca Security  in the Chilean market with an integrator or a partner of Orca Security. The real impact when the client or the potential client sees the POC is truly awesome because you can have 100% visibility since Orca Security provides full coverage across your entire cloud estate across AWS , Azure , and GCP within minutes, finding shadow assets that traditional tools like Cortex  or Prisma from Palo Alto cannot detect.

Orca Security has other strategic features such as CNAPP  or Cloud Network Application Protection Platform capabilities, including CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management). You can detect misconfiguration and ensure compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR of the European Union. Another valuable feature is the Cloud Workload Protection Platform, where you can identify vulnerabilities such as CVEs, malware, and exposed secrets such as API keys or passwords inside your workloads during scanning. Another feature is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management , where you can manage identities and permissions to enforce least privilege and find overprivileged accounts. Finally, there is Data Security  Posture Management, where Orca Security can automatically discover and protect sensitive data such as PII and PHI to prevent data breaches.

Orca Security is a really strong product because it has a lot of different differentiators. Orca Security is based on agentless side scanning, so it has the ability to scan cloud workloads including virtual machines, containers, and serverless infrastructure all without installing any software or agents. This results in zero performance impact on production, which I think is the most important thing in the market share or in an eventual Gartner Quadrant.

Orca Security helps in preventing risks and attacks across the application lifecycles by scanning not only the apps in production, but also the apps or microservices in development. This provides complete visibility to your infrastructure.

The price is one thing I would like to see improved because the pricing is a little elevated, as the pricing is based on the quantity of workloads. However, I think that since Orca Security is a medium company, you can negotiate the pricing if you are a medium company.

My experience with Orca Security is recent, approximately eight months ago.

We had a problem with the uptime with a really important client. I think the capability to respond to those kinds of issues was a little vague. I found it a little unprofessional.

I find Orca Security scalable. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate it six or seven.

The problem with the Orca Security technical support team and customer service team is that Orca Security is a medium company and I think they do not have a large team. If you have a lot of problems, you will receive an unprofessional service or unprofessional customer service because you do not have an entire team to respond to all of those kinds of problems.

I would rate the technical support team as a six.

The deployment is frictionless, and I think that feature is one of the most important.

I remember that the read-only connection is the deployment model we were using for Orca Security. Deployment is completely out of band, so we simply connect Orca Security through a read-only IAM  role or service account at the cloud root level. You need root access.

The ROI or return on investment with Orca Security might be favorable. The TCO or Total Cost of Ownership is an important term. While the initial sticker price might be higher than point solutions, the total cost of ownership is much lower. This is because you do not need a team of five persons to install and update the agents in thousands of servers. The operational overhead is equal to zero.

I have not worked with the Orca Security Cloud Cost Optimization feature. The price is one thing I would like to see improved because the pricing is a little elevated, as the pricing is based on the quantity of workloads. However, since Orca Security is a medium company, you can negotiate the pricing if you are a medium company.

I did not evaluate other options.

Overall, my impressions of the risk detection and identification capabilities of Orca Security are that it has the capability to scan and show you all your infrastructure. If you have any kind of vulnerabilities, you can see them. It is very important to see all your infrastructure and all the possible ways to have vulnerabilities. Another important thing is if you need to scan all your workloads.

Overall, I think Orca Security is the leader because of the strategic features I mentioned. It is easy to analyze and detect breaches, anomalies, and misconfiguration. It is a tool that is designed to be very user-friendly.

The real value of Orca Security is not just finding vulnerabilities but reducing the noise so the security team can focus on the critical attack path. Orca Security is a really complete tool for cloud security. I think Orca Security reduces alert volume by focusing only on the one percent of risk that actually matters, which I refer to as the one percent rule. Orca Security filters the noise and reduces alert fatigue.

My advice for other organizations considering Orca Security is to remember that Orca Security is a great product, but the team should work on customer service. I gave this review an overall rating of eight.

I normally use Orca Security  for AppSec, and one of the features that I use commonly is the application security. I love it because it's already covered in the same license, and I can get a good overview of all of my assets. I have a lot of accounts in cloud, and so it's sometimes hard to identify all activities or assets that have been used or not. Normally, some developers create some virtual machines and leave the VM on or don't remove it. Orca Security  usually helps me to see these kinds of problems because I can see every asset in one platform.

I don't use the Cloud to Dev feature they mentioned, since I'm working with Orca Security directly.

I believe the feature referred to as Orca  Sensor is cloud security detection. I use it frequently because it's very important. I really enjoy it because it's agentless. I don't need to install or build an agent in my assets in the cloud. Orca Security accomplished this safely and fast. It's pretty easy to identify security risks or security issues using Orca Security because it's totally agentless and I just need to connect my cloud environment. It's really good and pretty easy. They have one feature that I really like in this same vein; it's the news about security. For example, if a new vulnerability is found and it's not already published in a CVSS bug, Orca Security has new papers that already inform me, stating that I have this new issue and this asset has been affected by this new vulnerability, and it provides guidance on how I can fix it. I love it.

What I love most about Orca Security is the easy integration with other tools. I really like it because it's very easy to integrate with other tools that are important for the company. It's already set up in the platform easily. I don't need to do unusual modifications or create a script. It's pretty easy to integrate these tools.

It is easy to prioritize risks using Orca Security because they have already been categorized. The severity of some risks is delivered from Orca Security, and I can set some kind of high-value asset designation. I can define what is a high-value asset or not. The attack paths also help me to understand the prioritization of the risks of these assets.

Orca Security has helped my company reduce the time it needs to address cloud security alerts and make it faster. When one critical risk or high risk is identified in my environment, I already receive notifications, even in email or in Teams, Slack, or any channel that is integrable to Orca Security. I receive a very fast notification to address the vulnerability and security issues to the teams.

I think the downside of Orca Security is the reports. I don't have any good reports ready to deliver to an executive. If I need to deliver some reports to my account manager or an executive, I don't have anything ready. I need to extract information and put it in another tool to construct some reports or dashboards or to report to my manager.

I've been using Orca Security for exactly one year and one month.

Normally, I don't have any problem with maintenance in Orca Security platform. I don't have any downtime using it for this one year. When I need any support, it's very fast to get an answer from the support team.

I don't have any lagging using Orca Security. As I said, using it for one year, I don't have any downtimes.

From what I’ve seen, I think it’s really easy to scale your usage. I did a POC (Proof of Concept) where I extended some workloads and it was very easy, but I don't use it frequently in production, just in that Proof of Concept.

Not so many people are required for the deployment of Orca Security; just one person can do it.

I have been in contact with technical support regarding Orca Security twice to solve some issues, but it wasn't an issue, just a wrong configuration that I made. I contacted them and they shared some documentation. After that, I could resolve it pretty well.

I tried similar solutions from Trend Micro. From Trend Micro, I also tried a new one that is called Wiz . Orca Security is the best one for me because it delivers all the things that I need and more.

The initial deployment of Orca Security was pretty easy from my point of view.

It took just one hour to create the roles and the credentials for Orca Security. Then I just need to wait for the time for Orca Security to enrich data and index data in the platform. On the first day, I can already use Orca Security fully and identify every resource.

For my company, I don't use a huge workload. It's a small workload, around 90 workloads, but we have more. For this amount of workload, the price is high. When you have more workloads, the price is much better. I think it's not so expensive when you have the right amount of workloads. It's more directed toward big companies.

I have tried to use Cloud Cost Optimization with Orca Security. We used it to reduce some costs by removing some unused assets. It really helped us, but I don't think that is the main focus of Orca Security. I use other tools to do FinOps in a better way.

I use a reseller that is a partner that helps me with Orca Security. I am just a client, but we have a company that sold Orca Security to us, and they are the bridge between my company and Orca Security company.

I would rate this product a 10 out of 10.