# Orca Security Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Orca Security the right Cloud Security solution for you? Explore 60 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/188445/Orca-Security/reviews --- Orca Security 4.8 (60) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/188445/Orca-Security/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Orca Security Ease of use 4.7 Customer Service 4.8 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews EG Edgaras G Digital Marketing SpecialistBroadcast Media, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The platform primarily serves us as a way to back up all of our information in the cloud and restore it in the event of loss.“ June 25, 2025 AW Andrew W Security Engineer IITelecommunications, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “There are always a lot of vulnerabilities that appear in our console from old kernel versions or something that has already been patched that we're still getting alerts on.“ May 31, 2022 WM Will M ManagerComputer Networking, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Orca's ability to secure out cloud assets has been just amazing and I will keep using this“ April 23, 2025 AA Azeez A DevOps EngineerComputer Software, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “The only part I have reservations about is the shift-left aspect whereby there is no known IDE extension for the CLI“ January 31, 2023 Bill M CTOInformation Technology and Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “I appreciate how Orca Security does side-scanning, unobtrusively collecting information about our cloud deployments, and then submitting those records through intensive scrutiny. “ July 7, 2022 DP Daniel P Senior SecOps EngineerSecurity and Investigations, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Some bugs from time to time and inconsistencies with labelling of alerts as time goes by.“ May 20, 2022 IR Ie R DevSecOps EngineerComputer Software, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Their product provided meaningful insights into overall project security and what can be done better on our side!“ July 10, 2023 AB Anurag B Security AnalystRetail, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “No AliCloud support and limited CI/CD and runtime serverless security visibility“ May 23, 2022 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 60 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Bill M. CTO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Orca Security : intensive scrutiny of your cloud deployments" July 7, 2022 5.0 We feel that we've been able to significantly improve our organization's awareness across the board to security issues. Pros I appreciate how Orca Security does side-scanning, unobtrusively collecting information about our cloud deployments, and then submitting those records through intensive scrutiny. The scan results are compared against CVEs to establish prioritized lists for mitigation efforts Cons Integration of Orca Security with Microsoft Teams to provide realtime alerts when issues are detected is in it's infancy at present, and we had some troubles getting it going. Review Source EG Edgaras G. Digital Marketing Specialist Broadcast Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Zero dislikes, perfect for MSPs." June 25, 2025 5.0 The tool has helped us back up corporate data from various platforms, protecting against data loss and storing it securely in the cloud. Pros The platform primarily serves us as a way to back up all of our information in the cloud and restore it in the event of loss. Initially, as we started using Orca Security, it was just a backup and disaster recovery solution but in recent months, it has introduced real security and patch management features. The partner portal is perfect for MSPs. The technical and commercial support is also excellent. Cons The initial configuration is not easy, but once you have the system running, everything goes smoothly. Switched from [ESET Endpoint Security](https://www.capterra.com/p/151915/ESET-Endpoint-Security/) Wanted a cheaper and unique platform for a smaller team. Review Source AA Azeez A. DevOps Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Orca security general overview" January 31, 2023 4.0 I have enjoyed the Orca security in the sense that it gives in-depth details of vulnerability, attack path, security posture among many others Pros It is a reach platform which provides us with comprehensive security tooling features. Cons The only part I have reservations about is the shift-left aspect whereby there is no known IDE extension for the CLI Alternatives considered [Lacework](https://www.capterra.com/p/182796/Lacework/) Reason for choosing Orca Security It provides a lot of features that many other products don't have coverage for. Switched from [CrowdStrike](https://www.capterra.com/p/147662/CrowdStrike-Falcon/) It's more expensive Review Source AB Aristide B. Product Security Engineer Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "An efficient, All-In-One entry level solution to start tackling Cloud security issues." May 23, 2022 4.0 Thanks to Orca we were able to quickly scale our vulnerability management program. Pros Very easy to set-up. Top-notch customer follow-up and support. Continual solution improvement included in the pricing. Single pane of glass visibility into your Cloud infrastructure with a powerful query language and automation features. Cons Limitations of agent-less scanning. Container and Kubernetes scanning could be more developed. Alternatives considered [Lacework](https://www.capterra.com/p/182796/Lacework/)[Intezer Protect](https://www.capterra.com/p/204814/Intezer-Protect/) Reason for choosing Orca Security Agent-less technology so we could set it up quickly without impacting our current IT operation processes. Powerful correlation, prioritization and query engine. Reasonable pricing and top-notch customer support. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Information Security Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Orca - Scan from the side, 0 user impact" February 19, 2021 5.0 We switched to a custom Linux Kernel that agent based VMS could not support. Orca was the only solution that we found that could solve our use case. Pros Orca is an agentless approach to VMS. This means there is 0 user impact or performance degradation. Your Operations team does not have to manage agent roll out, it also does not need to manage upgrades/downtime. This saves you operating costs and allows your Ops team to focus on other security items. Orca is OS agnostic, it does not matter what your development/architecture team decides to pivot to. Orca supports Windows/Linux/Mac/Containerization. It also is Cloud agnostic, have subs in Azure or AWS? Orca can handle them all with a few clicks. The entire roll out took around 10 minutes. Cons There are features missing in Orca from a nice to have stand point. The product is fairly new and a lot of these enhancements are being worked on. The Orca team has been very responsive to enhancements thus far. Reason for choosing Orca Security DivvyCloud is agent based and did not support our Linux distro. Switched from [InsightVM](https://www.capterra.com/p/169723/InsightVM/) Rapid7 could not be installed on our Linux Kernel. Review Source AB Aaron B. Senior Security Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Know your entire cloud sprawl in minutes" August 25, 2020 5.0 Product Integration - It's as easy as they sell it. I had it up and running in multiple accounts in no time. Support - Wonderful support and leadership team that cares about their customers. Open API - Rich and open API that allows you to extend and build on top of the product. Pros The extensibility of the product, and how rich the API is. I can find out almost anything about my environment. Using Orca gives me insight into my entire cloud sprawl. I can get information about malware, open-ingress to EC2 instances, and open source vuln management. The only limit to its use is imagination. Cons Creating new alerts can be clunky. However, the Orca team is always improving and is currently working on a V2. Navigating the UI can be a bit of a challenge at times when looking for specific info. This is why I often opt for using the API over the UI. Alternatives considered [Harmony Email & Collaboration](https://www.capterra.com/p/178133/Check-Point-CloudGuard-SaaS/) Reason for choosing Orca Security I ended up choosing Dome9 because it's feature-rich, but bells-and-whistles light. It provides to me the most salient alerts and alarms, while not making too much noise. A lot of competitors' products are very opinionated, which can force a security organization to shape their processes around the tool. With Orca it's the opposite, the tool is powerful, lightweight and malleable. Review Source JV Jonas V. Senior Security Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Faster and Stroger that´s Orca Security" January 31, 2023 5.0 Faster and easier deployment, full visibility into AWS and Azure. Pros Easy deploy and powerfull visibility it´s most values of Orca. Cons Lack of visibility into the on-premises environment Alternatives considered [Lacework](https://www.capterra.com/p/182796/Lacework/)[Wiz](https://www.capterra.com/p/237703/WIZ/) Reason for choosing Orca Security Best solution in our assessment and presence with local partners. Switched from [Tenable Vulnerability Management](https://www.capterra.com/p/230629/Tenableio/)[CleanCloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/133390/CleanCloud/) Partial visibility and no prioritization correlation Review Source AP Abhinay P. Director of Software Engineering Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Agent less solution is the future in security vulnerability and container security monitoring." August 11, 2020 5.0 We were trying to solve container security challenges. Actively monitoring what is going on within container. Benefit of agent less solution is two fold, 1) Do not have to install agents on the host machine. 2) Effective in monitoring workloads running in managed containers. Orca security, ability of side-scanning technology examines block storage out of band via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Pros Agent less no installation required. Simple 3 step process to connect account and start monitoring. Extensive deep insight into installed packages within container. Clear categorization of alerts as Imminent compromises, Hazardous, Informational with color coding for clear visibility. Also builds digital asset inventory for tracking different types cloud based assets ex: S3 buckets, EC2 instances. Easy to connect multiple accounts across AWS, Azure, GCP. Under Vulnerability management some of the key features to highlight are Asset Discovery, Asset Tagging, Network Scanning, Patch Management,Vulnerability Assessment,Web Scanning, Risk Management and Policy Management. Couple of the key cloud security features to highlight are Endpoint Management,Threat Intelligence,Vulnerability Management, Intrusion Detection System, Behavioral Analytics, Encryption and Application Security. Ease of integration was one of the reason to consider Orca security solution. Cons Reporting and user interface are immature, but improving, not real time. This is near real time solution depends on frequency of scanning. VM specific details if consolidated as actionable insights will be very helpful to narrow our focus to relevant issues (ex: identified affected packages within a container is great, giving link to specific patches will be very helpful. Alternatives considered [VM-Series](https://www.capterra.com/p/175509/VM-Series/) Reason for choosing Orca Security Agent less deployment with similar functionality. Review Source JT Jeremy T. Cloud Security Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Super Easy to Setup and Start Managing Your AWS Risks" August 30, 2020 5.0 Not having to deal with agents combined with direct integration with our ticking system has saved us countless hours of precious engineering time. Because of this, we have gained tremendous value from the product since we can effectively manage AWS risks while focusing on creating more features and values for our customers. Pros Since Orca Security does not require any agents to install, setup took less than five minutes. We are also use multiple AWS accounts and since setup was simple, within less than thirty minutes, we had a single pane view of most of our AWS risks. In addition, since Orca Security integrates with Atlasssian Jira, with only one click, we could quick open remediation tickets for high risk vulnerabilities. Cons Although Orca Security offers a ton of AWS coverage, I'd like to see more work with AWS RDS and AWS networking services such as VPC and Security Groups. Alternatives considered [Nessus](https://www.capterra.com/p/130577/Nessus/)[Trend Micro Deep Security](https://www.capterra.com/p/238491/XGen/) Reason for choosing Orca Security Partly because of the \[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN\] experience and track record but mainly because of the fact that we don't have to deal with installing and managing agents. Review Source WM Will M. Manager Computer Networking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Amazing!!!!!!" April 23, 2025 5.0 Orca has been able to let us just set things to "automatic" and it just works. Pros Orca's ability to secure out cloud assets has been just amazing and I will keep using this Cons Nothing and I mean nothing. software has been solid since day 1 Review Source MS Michael S. IT Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Orca Security review" January 22, 2023 5.0 Orca Security is constantly reviewing our AWS cloud environment security posture keeping our business as safe as possible Pros The most I like about Orca is its extensive collection of security check for our AWS environment, also that Orca is always working on new features and new improvements Cons I wish there was also a live scanner, but I guess its not part of the product or how its works, also if the price was lower Alternatives considered [Prisma Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/10002302/Prisma-Cloud/) Reason for choosing Orca Security More features and lesser price Review Source AG Alexey G. Security Engineer Construction Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Agentless Solution with quality results" May 23, 2022 5.0 Pros Ease of deployment and accuracy of resutlts Cons Some features are clunky have to escape out of investigation panel multiple times. Switched from [CloudSploit](https://www.capterra.com/p/155577/CloudSploit/) Integrations and quality of results Review Source NT Nickelby T. Chief Information Security Officer Insurance Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "An easy to deploy, manage and administer security solution" January 26, 2023 5.0 Pros Agentless was a very big win for me. And now with API scanning, it goes to the next level! Cons No dark mode. Seriously. We need to make sure that products have dark mode! Review Source DG Doug G. CSO Information Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Lightning Fast Deployment and Accurate Results" February 19, 2021 5.0 We've been able to rapidly get our arms around our cloud configuration and vilnerability management and reduce our risk Pros Within minutes we were able to deploy this product and begin receiving accurate and actionable insight. There is no performance impact, no agent deployment to worry about and it just works. We were able to integrate this into our devops toolchain and drive results directly to the people who will remediate. Cons We're still adjusting to the new UI, but that's just familiarity, there is really nothing we don't like about the software. Review Source AW Aaron W. Director of Cloud Security Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Agentless Cloud Security" August 10, 2020 5.0 With other tools we struggled with complete visibility into our cloud. Deploying cloud scanners is a hassle as is agents and we had no visibility into our containers. This product provided all of that in the much coveted "single pane of glass." Pros The fact that the gaining complete visibility into our cloud workload is agentless and that gives us a complete view into our configurations, VM's, containers and security. Cons At this point everything is headed in the right direction. Review Source ID Idan D. CISO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "client-less malware detection " August 11, 2020 4.0 Orca provides me with contextual security risk, it can identify a server with PII file which is exposed to the internet and rate it with a higher severity than a server which is not exposed to the internet. Pros agentless malware detection and great server/ containers visibility to identify security-related threats Cons The one thing that I least liked about this software, is that it's not real-time protection Reason for choosing Orca Security easy deployment, no need to operate any agent, great visibility to security thearts Review Source YR Yevhen R. DevSecOps Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Amazing team, great product!" May 20, 2022 5.0 Result-oriented people, great support team Pros Amazing company, fast replies, knowledgeable people! Cons Honestly, nothing bad. Only good things! Review Source SJ Sujeet J. SR cloud and devops engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "software usage" January 23, 2023 5.0 Pros I like how this product identifies, prioritizes and remediates security risks and compliance issues Cons for started it is a difficult software or UI is complex Review Source JG Joshua G. Director of DevOps Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Excellent tool for scanning and managing vulnerabilities in your cloud environment" June 1, 2022 5.0 Overall, we've become more secure, and vastly more aware of the security vulnerabilities that existed for us Pros Side scanning, vulnerability detection, compliance management Cons Occasional website glitches, usually solved with a simple refresh Review Source AT Alice T. Security Program Manager E-Learning Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Orca Security " February 26, 2021 4.0 Pros I really like how simple it was to deploy across the teams and our infrastructure as it is agent-less. It helps me prioritize effectively and shows me areas that need immediate attention. The integrations are easy to action things into our workflows and delegate to the correct team Cons There is a lot of data (we have a lot of infrastructure too) but it can be overwhelming initially but once you get used to the product it provides invaluable insights to all of the data. Review Source JN Jason N. Manager - Information Security Operations Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Product" July 12, 2024 5.0 Pros I believe Orca is an amazing tool. The fact it is agentless, can be deployed in AWS, Azure, and GCP make it an all around tool. Another reason I like Orca is the support I have gotten. The team is always available when we have issues and is able to resolve anything we see quickly. Cons I have no cons on this product. It works as intended. Review Source BC Brenden C. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Best in class, but expensive" June 10, 2024 5.0 Pros Orca has the complete package of security tooling available. If cybersecurity is a very important concern for your company, this is the best choice. Cons While a complete package, they are very expensive. If you don't need all features other competitors might be more valuable for the money. Review Source SF Simon F. Senior Application Security Engineer Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Probably the best Cloud Native Application Protection Platform I've used" May 23, 2022 5.0 Orca solves several problems we regularly face including producing asset inventories, helping with compliance, and providing focussed mitigation of security vulnerabilities. Orca's dashboards provide the necessary insights into the latest threats to allow a more focused application of security resources. Pros Orca's agentless side-scanning techniques mean that all assets are automatically scanned - even if not running. Their dashboards provide an intuitive, easy to digest view of the current state of application security without being swamped by alerts and information. Orca provides an excellent way of producing an inventory of assets - particularly useful for ephemeral assets that are perpetually being created and destroyed. The compliance feature is also useful for auditing purposes. The recently introduced attack paths feature shows graphically how an attacker could gain access and potentially pivot through the system. Cons Because of the way Orca's side-scanning technology works using snapshots, the downside is that the scanning is not performed in real-time so cannot provide true xDR capabilities. It would also be useful if older alerts were automatically dismissed after a while when the vulnerability is no longer detected. This would help to reduce the total number of vulnerabilities and alerts that are displayed in the dashboards. Review Source AW Andrew W. Security Engineer II Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Orca's SideScanner is a game changer. " May 31, 2022 5.0 Orca is solving our visibility issue. Without it, we wouldn't have been able to triage log4j, see malware in our environments, investigate vulnerable cloud instances, and a range of other basic but tricky cloud problems. Pros Orca's SideScanning technology is excellent. The fact that it doesn't require an agent and is still able to provide as much insight as it does is truly amazing. Cons Orca needs to figure out how to separate the wheat from the chaff. There are always a lot of vulnerabilities that appear in our console from old kernel versions or something that has already been patched that we're still getting alerts on. Reason for choosing Orca Security Ease of setup, agentless, very little overhead. Review Source IR Ie R. DevSecOps Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great company! Awesome product! Amazing staff!" July 10, 2023 5.0 Great team, useful product! I loved working with Orca Security as vendor! Their product provided meaningful insights into overall project security and what can be done better on our side! Pros I honestly love their innovative product! Used it with AWS cloud infrastructure - only really cool benefits! Cons Nothing, really! The are clock-sharp in resolving any issues, hepling with setup and configuration, everythin was perfect! Review Source Similar Products Featured