Orca Security review: agentless CNAPP for AWS, Azure, and GCP. SideScanning technology, key features, custom pricing, and top competitors compared.
Orca Security is a cloud security platform that gives security teams full visibility into risk across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes without installing agents on every workload. It was founded in 2018 by Avi Shua and Gil Geron and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional operations in the United States.
The company built its reputation on SideScanning, a patented agentless scanning approach that reads workload data directly from the cloud provider's control plane. This lets security teams onboard an entire cloud estate in minutes rather than deploying agents to thousands of individual resources, a common bottleneck with older cloud workload protection tools.
Orca combines cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection (CWPP), cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), vulnerability management, and compliance monitoring into a single platform built on a Unified Data Model, so findings across categories are correlated into prioritized attack paths instead of siloed alert feeds.
More recent additions include Orca Sensor for runtime detection and response, an AI reasoning engine that automates parts of triage and remediation, AI security posture management for organizations deploying AI models and agents in the cloud, and code security scanning that catches risks before they reach production. The platform integrates with more than 20 tools including Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, and GitHub.
Orca Security does not publish pricing on its website. Cost is determined through a custom, sales-led process typically based on the number of cloud workloads, accounts, and modules (such as CIEM, AI security, or code security) an organization needs.
Prospective customers request a personalized demo, after which Orca's sales team provides a quote scoped to the size and complexity of the customer's cloud environment.
Orca Security is a cloud-native application protection platform that detects, prioritizes, and helps remediate security risks and compliance issues across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
Orca is primarily agentless, using SideScanning to read workload data from the cloud provider's infrastructure layer, though it also offers an optional Orca Sensor for runtime protection.
Orca does not publish pricing; cost is quote-based, determined by workload count and the modules purchased.
Orca Security is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional operations in the United States including Portland, Oregon.
Orca supports AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, along with Kubernetes environments.
Orca Security was founded in 2018 by Avi Shua and Gil Geron.
SideScanning is Orca's patented method of scanning cloud workloads directly from the provider's infrastructure layer without installing agents on individual resources.
Orca competes with Wiz, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud, Lacework, and Aqua Security in the CNAPP market.