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Description

Orca Security is an enterprise-grade Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that utilizes its patented SideScanning™ technology to provide deep, context-aware visibility into cloud environments across workloads, configurations, and identities without requiring operational agents.

Key Features

  • Patented SideScanning™ Technology: Operates completely out-of-band, accessing runtime block storage via read-only cloud APIs to clone and index virtual disks. It surfaces OS and application vulnerabilities, active malware, operational misconfigurations, and exposed secrets with zero runtime resource overhead or network packets sent.
  • Unified Data Model & Graph Engine: Integrates workload-deep intelligence directly with raw cloud infrastructure configurations into a single graph. Instead of generating isolated, siloed alerts, it traces full attack paths to reveal how minor configuration issues, overly permissive identities, and software bugs combine to threaten crown-jewel assets.
  • Full-Stack Contextual Visibility: Broadly scans all operational layers spanning the foundational control plane, virtual machines, container registries, Kubernetes structures, serverless architectures, and attached enterprise SaaS platform configurations to surface risk patterns from a single pane of glass.
  • Out-of-the-Box Compliance Automation: Continuously maps the cloud estate against over 100 built-in compliance frameworks (including PCI-DSS v4, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and CIS Benchmarks), automatically generating audit-ready dashboards and guided remediation scripts.
Best Fit
  • Compliance-Driven Enterprise Engineering Teams: Ideal for large organizations that require deep asset analysis, vulnerability metrics, and continuous compliance posture reporting without the massive operational friction of installing and maintaining endpoint agents across thousands of multi-cloud instances.
  • Multi-Cloud Environments Experiencing Alert Fatigue: Best suited for teams managing complex AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes footprints who want to filter out low-context vulnerability noise and isolate the top 1% of actionable risks based on true internet reachability and lateral movement potential.
  • Frictionless Shift-Left Operations: Highly effective for DevOps groups aiming to secure build-to-runtime pipelines by checking Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and container images without disrupting standard continuous delivery cycles.

Deployment & Architecture

Agentless Scanning
YES
Agent-Based Protection
YES
Snapshot Analysis (Vendor Cloud)
YES
Snapshot Analysis (Customer Cloud)
YES
Fully Self-Hosted Backend (BYOC)
NO
Terraform Provider Available
YES
Opensource
NO

Platform Capabilities

Posture & Compliance

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

API Security Posture Management

Graph-Based Attack Path Analysis

Workload & Runtime Protection

Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
eBPF Runtime Enforcement
Vulnerability Management (CVE)
Malware & Ransomware Detection
Container Registry Scanning
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
Network Microsegmentation

Identity & Access Governance

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)
Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)
Least-Privilege Remediation Automation
Just-In-Time (JIT) Privileged Access

Application & Supply Chain Security

Code and pipeline security targeting developer workflows.

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Scanning
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Dynamic SBOM Generation
Hardcoded Secrets & Token Detection
Code-to-Cloud Traceability Mapping

Data & AI Security

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)

Ecosystem Integrations

Native ecosystem integrations mapping into external enterprise tooling.

Extensibility & Policy Customization

Tracks platform customization limits, specifically engine custom policy writing engines.

Custom CWPP Workload Behavior Rules
Custom Infrastructure-as-Code Policies