Name: Orca Security
Rating: 4.6 (238 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Orca Security?

Orca Security is a software designed to provide comprehensive cloud security and compliance solutions across public cloud environments. The software offers features such as asset inventory, vulnerability management, threat detection, and risk assessment, enabling organizations to identify and prioritize security risks without agents. It integrates with major cloud platforms to deliver visibility into workloads, configurations, and data, supporting incident investigation and compliance reporting. Orca Security addresses challenges associated with securing complex cloud infrastructures by enabling users to detect misconfigurations, malware, and sensitive data exposure, contributing to improved security posture and regulatory compliance in cloud ecosystems.

Overall experience with Orca Security

IT Associate

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees, Education

FAVORABLE

“Great feedback loop but sometimes lacks adequate documentation or lags on feature deliveries”

5.0

Nov 20, 2025

Primarily purchased the tool to function as a CSPM. The tool delivers on that requirement. Cloud security is a new and emerging market and Orca continues to evolve to meet our needs. They are positively reflective of our feedback, and don't hesitate to follow up for further clarification to guarantee they satisfy our requests.

It Security & Risk Management Associate

50M - 250M USD, Services (non-Government)

CRITICAL

“Immediate Visibility and Fast Deployment, But UI Lag and Alert Noise Reported”

3.0

Jan 30, 2026

Orca Security can be considered a potential cloud-based security platform yet there is room for growth. Its unified dashboard and context-aware risk management makes the job easier for admins. Given the user-friendly dashboard, understanding the threats and compromises in the environment is fast and simple. I would suggest this platform for teams that want quick onboarding and strong coverage.

About Company

Company Description

Designed for organizations operating in the cloud who need complete, centralized visibility of their entire cloud estate and want more time and resources dedicated to remediating the actual risks that matter, Orca Security is an agentless cloud Security Platform that provides security teams with 100% coverage their entire cloud environment. Instead of layering multiple siloed tools together or deploying cumbersome agents, Orca combines two revolutionary approaches - SideScanning, that enables frictionless and complete coverage without the need to maintain agents, and the Unified Data Model, that allows centralized contextual analysis of your entire cloud estate. Together, Orca has created the most comprehensive cloud security platform available on the marketplace.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2019

Head office location

Portland, United States

Number of employees

201 - 500

Website

https://orca.security

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Enthusiastic customer service with a dedicated success engineer and account manager, ensuring we maintain a healthy feedback loop. They also continue to address our needs as we identify gaps between their tool and our use cases. Orca itself is fairly easy to use right out-of-the-box, doesn't require continuous maintenance on our side, or even our interaction to ensure continuous operation.

I like the agentless architecture of this platform as it makes deployment faster and less complex. Maintenance is minimal and visibility is immediate. Orca provides comprehensive visibility into cloud configuration risks and vulnerabilities.

Easy API integration, it provides what you need at a glance and works well with discovery searches. Easy reporting for scheduled tasks. Able to quickly discover details about containers or instances that may not have certain configurations set on it.

Certain features lag behind the competition. Alternatives in this market may have a feature 3-6 months before Orca. Lack of customization for certain unique use cases. I believe Orca has the data available to it, but getting that information out of it can sometimes be impossible. Documentation and self-support can be a little lacking, requiring interaction with a support engineer to address appropriately.

The UI can be laggy sometimes, especially if you are dealing with large datasets. Some of the dashboards and reporting customization feel more technical than strategic. You may get a lot of noise and alerts in the early stages of deployment that may create some frustration for the team.

Documentation is not accurate or updated at times compared to cloud services or UI. Changes that affect reporting are sometimes not communicated to us and may change how the results are presented. Customer success answering support times can be improved - I was waiting far too long to answer a simple question.

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Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Review Source

Great feedback loop but sometimes lacks adequate documentation or lags on feature deliveries

50M-1B USD

Healthcare and Biotech

Efficient Cloud Security Auditing with Streamlined Reporting and Quick Instance Insights

4.0

Nov 13, 2025

Orca has been incredibly useful in our environment because it lets us audit servers and run vulnerability reports without any heavy setup or agents getting in the way. Provides detailed insights into our EC2 instances and helps us quickly track down issues or missing configurations. Being able to pull up information on an instance in seconds has streamlined a lot of our day-to-day work, and overall it's made maintaining our cloud security posture far easier and more efficient. And let’s quickly export the results to present and schedule reports.

Services (non-Government)

Immediate Visibility and Fast Deployment, But UI Lag and Alert Noise Reported

Specialist Cloud Information Security En

<50M USD

Orca Security - Good tool with less friendly UI filters as compared to other CSPM tools in market

Dec 16, 2025

Orca security is one of the best tools I have worked on. First, I will talk about the UI, which has many bugs, and is not that user friendly. After we purchased this product, we started to work on automations and integrations with Jira along with integration of all our cloud accounts. Overall experience is good from scanning resources to verify alerts, Jira ticket dynamic flow. Even manual creation of Jira ticket works with automation which is the best feature I have ever seen in any CSPM tool.

IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

1B-10B USD

Retail

Comprehensive Cloud Visibility Offered by Orca Security Amid Performance Concerns

Dec 12, 2025

Orca Security is a tool that provided us with an overview of all our cloud environments in a consolidated view. We are able to centrally all the necessary information to take action and reduce our cloud-related risks