Orca Security
Agentless cloud security platform using AI to detect, prioritize, and remediate risks across cloud environments.
What it does
Orca Security is an agentless cloud security platform that provides unified visibility into security risks across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud - without requiring agents installed on every workload. Its SideScanning technology reads cloud workload data directly from the cloud provider APIs, creating a full asset inventory and risk graph without operational overhead. AI capabilities include Orca AI, a natural language interface for querying cloud security posture, AI-powered risk prioritization that identifies which vulnerabilities pose actual attack path risk versus theoretical risk, and automated remediation guidance with specific code or configuration fixes. Orca replaces the need for multiple point security tools - CSPM, vulnerability management, workload protection, and cloud detection and response - with a single platform.
Why AI-NATIVE
Orca Security is AI-native in its risk analysis approach - attack path analysis, contextual risk prioritization, and natural language security querying are architectural capabilities that define how the platform operates.
Best for
Mid-market cloud-first engineering teams use Orca to gain security visibility across their cloud environment without the operational burden of agent deployment - AI prioritization helping small security teams focus on what actually matters.
Enterprise cloud security teams use Orca as the unified security platform across multi-cloud environments - replacing CSPM, vulnerability management, and workload protection point tools with a single risk graph.
Limitations
Orca's agentless approach provides broad coverage quickly but misses some runtime behavioral signals that agent-based tools capture — organizations needing deep runtime threat detection may use Orca alongside an agent-based EDR.
Orca surfaces risks and provides remediation guidance but does not auto-remediate — engineering teams must still implement the fixes, which requires capacity and prioritization within the team.
Orca's pricing is based on cloud workload units and scales with cloud footprint — organizations with large cloud environments can face significant costs relative to narrower-scope point security tools.
Alternatives by segment
| If you need… | Consider instead |
|---|---|
| Cloud security with agent-based runtime protection | Wiz |
| AWS-native security management | AWS Bedrock |
| Broader threat detection and response | Darktrace |
Orca Security does not publish standard pricing. Pricing is based on number of cloud workloads (assets). Mid-market contracts typically start around $50,000 to $100,000 annually. Enterprise contracts negotiated.
