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Orca Security

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4.7
Market Presence: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, API Protection

Overview

Product Information on Orca Security

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.

Orca Security Pricing

Orca Security software typically offers a subscription-based pricing model structured around cloud asset coverage and environment size. Pricing varies according to the number of cloud workloads, accounts, or resources protected, with options for annual or multi-year subscription terms and tiered packages based on specific feature sets and organizational requirements. Custom quotes may be provided for enterprise deployments.

Overall experience with Orca Security

IT Security & Risk Management Associate
500M - 1B USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Significant reduction in critical and high-level vulnerabilities after the first year of use.”

5.0
Feb 22, 2026
The product is easy to use. The initial setup is very simple. In the first year of use, we managed to reduce vulnerabilities classified as High and Critical by more than 90%, considering the 3 main market clouds. Thanks to this, we considerably increased the level of governance in our cloud environments. The product has many ready-made connectors, which greatly facilitates system integration, and also provides APIs for direct consumption of key information.
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Cybersecurity Engineer
250M - 500M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“AWS Vulnerability Monitoring Works but Requires Substantial Manipulation for Insights”

3.0
Aug 22, 2025
The product itself does what it's supposed to and helps us keep an eye on vulnerabilities in our AWS environment. Although, it does a very sub-par job at doing it. We have to manipulate the numbers a lot to get the numbers we need and the dashboards aren't as helpful as we would like.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 10th November 2023

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

Updated 26th February 2025
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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Orca Security Reviews and Ratings

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4.7

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  • IT Security & Risk Management Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Significant reduction in critical and high-level vulnerabilities after the first year of use.

    5.0
    Feb 21, 2026
    The product is easy to use. The initial setup is very simple. In the first year of use, we managed to reduce vulnerabilities classified as High and Critical by more than 90%, considering the 3 main market clouds. Thanks to this, we considerably increased the level of governance in our cloud environments. The product has many ready-made connectors, which greatly facilitates system integration, and also provides APIs for direct consumption of key information.
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  • Director, IT Security and Risk Management
    <50M USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Agentless Architecture Enables Broad Cloud Security and Immediate Visibility Gains

    5.0
    May 13, 2026
    We have adopted Orca Security as our primary cloud security platform and it has become the backbone of our security posture across multiple domains. What started as as CSPM purchase has expanded into a unified platform covering application security, vulnerability management, container security, IaC scanning, secrets detection and software supply chain security. The agentless architecture was a game changer - zero deployment friction, no agents to maintain, and immediate visibility across our cloud estate. The platform continues to evolve rapidly and the Orca Security team is genuinely receptive to feedback. Our dedicated customer success team maintains a healthy feedback loop so gaps are followed through effectively and efficiently. Cloud security is a fast moving space and they have consistently kept pace with our needs.
  • IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Comprehensive Cloud Visibility Offered by Orca Security Amid Performance Concerns

    5.0
    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
  • Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Agentless Deployment Simplifies Onboarding and Enhances Multi-Cloud Security Visibility

    5.0
    Feb 20, 2026
    Our overall experience with Orca Security has been very positive. The agentless deployment model significantly simplified onboarding and reduced operational overhead. The platform provides strong visibility across multi-cloud environments. Additionally, the dedicated vendor support team has been responsive and knowledgeable. Having direct support from de manufacturer has provided valuable guidance during the implementation and tuning phases
  • DIRECTOR, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMEN
    <50M USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Solid Tech Stack Delivers Speed Yet AI and Reporting Capabilities Require Enhancement

    5.0
    Mar 4, 2026
    Their tech stack is solid. The product does what it says. They are constantly improving and adding more value without charging us.
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Orca Security Likes & Dislikes

Like

The product stands out for the wealth of information it provides, as well as the accuracy and precision of that information, and also for the remediation strategies suggested for each case. It clearly explains where vulnerabilities can be found and how to resolve them.

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Like

I do appreciate some of the compliance framework mapping and the Jira integrations.

Like

1. Agentless SideScanning architecture 2. Breadth of the platform (CSPM, SAST, SCA, Secrets Detection, IaC Scanning, Container Security, CI/CD pipeline security) 3. Risk Prioritization and Context Aware Alerting 4. Easy to use platform.

Dislike

For initial product integration, it is indeed possible without using agents as the advertising claims, and the information provided is extremely rich and detailed. However, to achieve a similar level of information about what exists within a Kubernetes cluster, it is necessary to manually create a connector for each cluster, or plan for this creation in Terraform modules. The connector is not complex and is very performant; it works very well.

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Dislike

As mentioned above: 1. We have to manipulate the numbers a lot to get the statistics that we value. 2. Dashboards aren't very helpful 3. Our team has brought up a lot of our concerns with Orca, and very little of them have been resolved.

Dislike

1. Dashboard customization could be stronger. 2. Third party ticketing flows require more manual configuration and field mapping than I would expect.