Orca Security – Empowering people and organizations to thrive securely in the cloud

Orca Security stands as a trailblazer in the realm of cloud security, known for its groundbreaking agentless approach. Trusted by numerous enterprises worldwide, Orca Security leads the industry as a comprehensive Cloud Security Platform. This innovative solution excels in identifying, prioritizing, and resolving security risks and compliance concerns across diverse cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. By covering a wide spectrum of cloud environments, including major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as the popular container orchestration system Kubernetes, Orca Security offers a comprehensive solution for businesses operating in complex and diverse cloud ecosystems.

SideScanning^™ Technology: The First Agentless Cloud Security Technology

The patented SideScanning^™ technology is at the heart of the Orca Platform, delivering the most comprehensive Cloud Security Platform with the deepest and widest visibility into cloud workloads and associated risks, without requiring a single agent. Orca’s SideScanning is a revolutionary new approach that addresses the shortcomings of agent-based solutions by collecting data from the workloads’ runtime block storage without requiring agents. Orca then reconstructs the workload’s file system – OS, applications, and data – in a virtual read-only view, and performs a full risk analysis with zero performance impact on the workloads themselves.

SideScanning is a bit like a medical MRI scanner - instead of using needles and scalpels, the MRI machine diagnoses health issues through non-invasive scanning of organs and tissue. SideScanning is similar in that it scans all cloud assets and their interconnectivity, providing deep and wide visibility into the entire cloud estate, without affecting the assets in any way. SideScanning covers all major workload types, including Linux and Windows VMs, containers and container images, and serverless functions. While most solutions only identify basic vulnerabilities, Orca provides detailed data on compliance issues, log inspection, file integrity monitoring, malware analysis, and more to offer telemetry that other solutions lack.

Cloud Security Platform Purpose-Built for the Cloud

The company is on a mission to provide the world's most comprehensive cloud security platform while adhering to what they believe in: frictionless security and contextual insights, so you can prioritize your most critical risks and operate in the cloud with confidence.

At Orca, they are not just innovators in the cloud security space—they are creators of it. Their founders understood that modern computing technologies and the cloud required a re-architecture of security, so they set out to change the game. Their vision turned into the industry’s first agentless cloud security solution, providing customers with comprehensive and lightweight coverage never seen before. With a patent for this revolutionary SideScanning™ technology, Orca pioneered the path for modern cloud security and continues on the path of innovation. With their Unified Data model offering contextual security insights, as well as their platform approach to securing your cloud infrastructure, Orca revolutionizes security and leads the conversation at every turn.

Continuously Monitor, Identify and Remediate Misconfigurations

Orca is a comprehensive cloud security posture management (CSPM) solution that continuously detects misconfigurations, policy violations and compliance risks in cloud environments, including cloud-native services. In a single, agentless platform, Orca helps prevent risks across every layer of your cloud estate, including workloads and configurations, from development to production, as well as continuously monitor for active cloud attacks. Traditional CSPM solutions help organizations stay compliant and address cloud risks such as misconfigurations and overly permissive identities. However, a CSPM only covers one part of the attack surface, leaving cloud workloads, event monitoring, and sensitive data discovery out of the picture. Deep and wide coverage is essential.

Orca consolidates cloud workload, configuration, identity & entitlement security, container security, sensitive data discovery, and detection & response all in one platform across the entire SDLC. This Unified Data Model allows Orca to understand the full context of risks and recognize when seemingly unrelated issues can create dangerous attack paths. Leveraging these insights, Orca is able to prioritize risks effectively, reducing alert fatigue and ensuring that security teams stay focused on what matters most.

Unlike other CSPMs, Orca also scans cloud workloads and identities to surface full insights into the risks across your entire tech stack. This enables Orca to understand which risk combinations pose the greatest danger, so your teams can address those first. Another important CSPM function that Orca provides is ensuring that cloud resources comply with regulatory frameworks and industry benchmarks, including data privacy requirements. Orca unifies compliance for cloud infrastructure workloads, containers, identities, data and more - all in a single dashboard.

Security for Cloud VMs, Containers, and Serverless

Orca offers industry-leading agentless cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) capabilities and provides 100% coverage and deep visibility into cloud workloads—spanning cloud VMs, serverless functions, containers, and Kubernetes applications— without the performance impact, security gaps and operational costs of agents. Orca also scans cloud configurations and identities in a single platform with a unified data model, providing full contextual insight and prioritized alerts. Orca scans the hidden corners of your cloud estate, searching for at-risk sensitive data, from personally identifiable information (PII) to protected healthcare information, and more.

Agent-based CWPPs require tedious deployments and management for each workload, leading to high TCO. Vendors offering a choice between agents and agentless approaches only add to the complexity and often have hidden limits on their ‘agentless’ capabilities. In addition, CWPPs only cover cloud workloads and miss risks in the cloud control plane, such as misconfigurations and overly permissive identities. Orca creates a full inventory of your cloud environment and leverages 20+ vulnerability data sources to discover and prioritize vulnerabilities across your entire cloud estate.

Gil Geron | Co-Founder & CEO

Gil Geron has more than 20 years of experience leading and delivering cybersecurity products. Previous to his role as CEO, Gil was chief product officer from the inception of Orca. He’s passionate about customer satisfaction and has worked closely with customers to ensure they are able to thrive securely in the cloud. Gil is committed to providing seamless cybersecurity solutions without compromising on efficiency. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Gil directed a large team of cyber professionals at Check Point Software Technologies.