About Orca Security
Orca Security is a cloud-native application protection platform, or CNAPP, for teams that secure workloads, configurations and identities in the cloud. Its main differentiator is agentless scanning: a technology it calls SideScanning reads data from cloud workloads without installing software on each one.
The platform covers cloud security posture management, cloud infrastructure entitlement management, container and Kubernetes security, vulnerability management, multi-cloud compliance, API security and cloud detection and response. A runtime sensor adds observability and protection, a unified data model correlates risks, and risk prioritization uses attack path analysis. Newer additions focus on securing AI systems and code before it reaches production.
Orca is delivered as a hosted service for multi-cloud environments. Its solutions are organized around reducing cloud risk, securing AI, coding securely, protecting workloads, and detecting and responding to attacks.
Key features
- Agentless scanning of cloud workloads
- Cloud security posture management
- Cloud identity and entitlement management
- Container and Kubernetes security
- Attack path-based risk prioritization
- Multi-cloud compliance checks
- Cloud detection and response
Good fit for
- →Cloud security teams finding exposed workloads
- →Platform teams checking compliance across multiple clouds
- →Organizations governing AI systems running in the cloud
- Tags
- cnapp
- cloud-security
- cspm
- agentless
- kubernetes-security
- vulnerability-management
- ciem
Orca Security: questions and answers
- What is Orca Security used for?
- Orca Security is an agentless cloud security platform that scans workloads and configurations across multi-cloud environments and prioritizes risk. It is a good fit for cloud security teams finding exposed workloads, platform teams checking compliance across multiple clouds and organizations governing AI systems running in the cloud.
- How much does Orca Security cost?
- Orca Security doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
- Is Orca Security open source?
- No. Orca Security is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Orca Security include Trivy, Grype and Kubescape.
- What are some alternatives to Orca Security?
- Orca Security competes with Wiz, Prisma Cloud and Aqua Security. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Orca Security alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Orca Security
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Trivy
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Grype
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Kubescape
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tfsec
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DefectDojo
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Open-Source Unified Vulnerability Management, DevSecOps & ASPM
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SaaS alternatives to Orca Security
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Security
Agentless cloud security platform mapping risk across code, cloud and runtime
SaaS
Prisma Cloud
Security
Cloud-native application protection platform from Palo Alto Networks
SaaS
Aqua Security
Security
Cloud native security platform for containers, Kubernetes and serverless
SaaS
Sysdig
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Cloud and container security platform with runtime threat detection
SaaS
CrowdStrike
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Cloud-native endpoint protection, threat detection and response platform
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Amazon GuardDuty
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Managed AWS threat detection service for accounts, workloads and data
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