I am primarily using Orca Security for cloud security. Being part of the vulnerability management team, I utilize Orca Security for generating vulnerability alerts on cloud assets.
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Seamless integration and side scanning optimize cloud security management
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
One aspect that stands out is the seamless integration. Once our organization is configured, any cloud account under that organization is automatically detected in Orca Security, along with all the assets associated with it.
Another valuable feature is the side scanning technology using a snapshot mechanism. This technology allows for coverage of almost all cloud assets without interrupting their operations.
What needs improvement?
Orca Security could improve its ticket creation process. Currently, it allows for creating tickets in only one bucket, which requires monitoring to redirect tickets to the appropriate team. It would be beneficial to have segregation for different projects.
Additionally, Orca Security could improve in reporting OS package vulnerabilities, such as missing MS patches or Linux patches.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Orca Security for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability as nine out of ten. I personally have not encountered any bugs or issues with the console. It runs almost 24/7.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability as nine out of ten. The seamless integration allows us to automatically reflect any connected project from our cloud into the console.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate customer service between eight and nine out of ten. The support team assists with issues and provides information on new updates, helping us understand the product better.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we used Rapid7 for vulnerability management. We switched because we moved from on-premises to the cloud, which required a cloud security solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am not sure about the pricing, as all decisions related to pricing and configuration were made by a different department.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend Orca Security to others looking for a cloud security solution due to its seamless integration and side-scanning technology that does not hamper cloud asset performance. It also offers automation for ticket creation directly from alerts.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Great tool for measuring and improving cloud security posture
What do you like best about the product?
The tool provides an amazing level of insight in our cloud presence. It is orgranized in an intuitive way, allows for customization, and is easy to drill down into details on specific alerts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Scans sometimes fail and it's not always obvious that there is an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The largest benefit we're receicing from Orca is a much more complete vision of our cloud environments. Addtionaly, it has greatly increased our efficiency in identifying and correcting vulnerabilities and compliance issues.
Security engineer's perspective
What do you like best about the product?
Very intuitive, looks great, and easy to use
What do you dislike about the product?
might be a little expensive for small businesses
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Viewing the cloud posture, vulnerabilities, and how to resolve them.
New Orca Cloud Security User
What do you like best about the product?
Orca Security is very easy to use for new user or organization. The platform is intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
While orca ofers deep visbility, managing such an extensive platform without enmterprise support can be overwhelming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Comprehensive Coverage: It provides holistic visiblity across workloads, containers, and cloud infrastructure.
Consolidating security tools with comprehensive cloud visibility
What is our primary use case?
We used Orca Security for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), vulnerability assessment, and several other security controls, including Shimless Security. It helped us consolidate our security tools and provided a central view for organization-wide visibility.
What is most valuable?
The best features of Orca Security include its ability to perform a lot of security controls without requiring any installation of agents, making it very easy to set up. This feature allowed us to replace a lot of tools with one comprehensive platform, enhancing our ability to consolidate the security footprint on a large scale.
It provided us with visibility from a central point, increasing our view from the previous thirty percent to a full one hundred percent of our cloud environment. This comprehensive view facilitated improvements in our security posture.
What needs improvement?
The documentation for Orca Security could be improved. The compliance framework also needs enhancements, especially concerning integrations with other tools like ServiceNow's vulnerability modules, which are not as mature as expected.
It should also increase its capability to ingest data from other security tools like CloudSight for endpoint detection and provide real-time monitoring.
For how long have I used the solution?
I was an administrator of Orca Security in my previous organization for almost two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
There were some stability issues in the initial months of using Orca Security, but overall, it has room for improvement and is rated seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Orca Security's scalability is rated nine out of ten due to its challenge in scaling Kubernetes workloads, which require additional steps on top of connecting cloud accounts.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support has room for improvement. The expertise levels could be improved, and on a scale from one to ten, I rate the support as six or seven out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used several other tools before Orca, such as Microsoft Defender, Twistlock (Prisma Cloud), Rapid7, and AlgoSec. Orca Security replaced these by consolidating their functionalities into a single platform, which helped us save significant costs.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Orca Security was easy. We started with the cloud accounts we already had visibility and control over, then presented its value to the organization.
What was our ROI?
Orca Security significantly improved our visibility from 30% to 100%, enabling better security posture improvements rather than just general cost savings.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost of Orca Security is competitive compared to other market solutions.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend Orca Security to other users and rate it eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
I have been supporting and learning the Orca product to deploy the VM alerting.
What do you like best about the product?
The Orca Alerts Dashboard is very useful in the sense that it contains a ton of features, ease of integration and use as far as creating new customized dashboards.
Orca has already pre-selected the best practice alerts for your company to focus on, by pulling them in from all of the most pertienent compliance frameworks enabling you meet understand and meet your compliance needs.
Orca has already pre-selected the best practice alerts for your company to focus on, by pulling them in from all of the most pertienent compliance frameworks enabling you meet understand and meet your compliance needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I will say that my organization has been involved with assisting in beta groups to test and validate data and feature functionality. Orca has many new releases planned for 2025 and I'm hoping the new Compliance service will be released ASAP.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Orca Security is enabling my Cloud Security team a hollistic view into our overall cloud posture management across all three of our cloud service providers from one tool.
Great & smooth experience
What do you like best about the product?
the flexibity & it being the agentless platform. supporting multi cloud
What do you dislike about the product?
dislike the fact that many CVEs will be categorized under service vuln & vuln software
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it makes sure all the assets on different cloud platform are at 1 place & gives the complete details of those
Orca CNAPP
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best is its agentless architecture; there's no need to install agents on each workload, which significantly reduces friction and speeds up deployment across our cloud estate.
Orca's compliance reporting and automated inventory give us excellent insights across our assets, which is invaluable for audit preparation.
The contextual alerting and prioritization features in Orca are also standout advantages. It cuts through the noise by correlating security issues to highlight the most critical risks in the environment, saving time and reducing alert fatigue.
Excellent customer support from our account team.
Orca's compliance reporting and automated inventory give us excellent insights across our assets, which is invaluable for audit preparation.
The contextual alerting and prioritization features in Orca are also standout advantages. It cuts through the noise by correlating security issues to highlight the most critical risks in the environment, saving time and reducing alert fatigue.
Excellent customer support from our account team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited reporting capabilities, we had to create custom reporting platforms to track alert statistics over time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Orca solves the issue of being able to scan lambda and kubernetes workloads in our production environmenets and in our pipelines.
In-Depth Cloud Security Monitoring and Vulnerability Detection
What do you like best about the product?
The platform offers clear visibility into vulnerabilities and compliance risks, helping us prioritize and resolve issues effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
The dashboard can sometimes feel cluttered with information, making it a bit overwhelming for newer users to navigate efficiently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Orca Security has greatly improved our cloud visibility by giving us agentless monitoring across all assets, which traditional tools often miss. It simplifies our security operations by consolidating vulnerability management, compliance, and threat detection into one platform. The risk prioritization feature is a huge benefit, allowing us to focus on the most critical issues first, saving time and resources.
Great cloud security platform
What do you like best about the product?
Orca provides greate visibility to our cloud environment, it helps us prioritise alerts and checks our environment with the latest vulnerabilities.
I really like the attack path feature it helps us closing gaps in our environments, also it provides as with a lot of the needed information about the resource or the alert that was triggered.
I really like the attack path feature it helps us closing gaps in our environments, also it provides as with a lot of the needed information about the resource or the alert that was triggered.
What do you dislike about the product?
Orca's searching capabilities could be better, sometimes it takes me more time than needed to be able to use their search engine.
Also I think the UI can be improved a little bit, with some alerts it can be overwhelming with the amount of details presented in the screen.
Also I think the UI can be improved a little bit, with some alerts it can be overwhelming with the amount of details presented in the screen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been using Orca Security for managing my cloud infrastructure, and overall, it helped me resolve a lot of issues for both cloud configuration and cloud vulnerabilities.
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