Profile
Orca Security is a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that provides comprehensive security visibility and risk detection across multi-cloud environments through an agentless architecture. The platform's patented SideScanning technology enables complete visibility into cloud workloads without requiring agent installation, eliminating traditional deployment friction and performance impacts. As a category leader valued at $1.8 billion and serving hundreds of enterprise customers globally, Orca Security has established itself as a pioneering solution for organizations seeking unified cloud security coverage across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud environments.
Focus
Orca Security addresses fundamental challenges in securing dynamic cloud environments by eliminating the coverage gaps, operational overhead, and visibility limitations inherent in traditional agent-based approaches. The platform's core value lies in providing comprehensive security visibility across cloud workloads, containers, serverless functions, storage, and identity configurations without requiring agent deployment or production environment modifications. Platform engineers and security teams benefit from unified visibility into vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, malware, identity risks, and data security issues, while development teams maintain velocity without security-imposed friction. The solution particularly serves organizations operating complex multi-cloud architectures requiring comprehensive security coverage without operational burden.
Background
Founded in 2019 by cybersecurity veterans Avi Shua and Gil Geron from Check Point Software Technologies, Orca Security emerged from their recognition that cloud environments required a fundamentally new approach to security. The company's breakthrough SideScanning technology revolutionized cloud security by enabling comprehensive visibility without agents. The platform is actively maintained by a dedicated engineering team and governed through its independent board structure, with strategic direction led by CEO Gil Geron and Chief Innovation Officer Avi Shua. Major enterprises including Robinhood, Databricks, Unity, and BeyondTrust rely on Orca Security for cloud protection.
Main features
Agentless cloud asset discovery and scanning
The platform's patented SideScanning technology creates read-only snapshots of workload runtime block storage using native cloud provider mechanisms, analyzing these outside the production environment to reconstruct complete filesystem visibility. This architectural approach enables comprehensive security scanning without requiring agent installation or network access to production systems. The technology automatically covers all cloud assets regardless of their operational state, including stopped instances and ephemeral resources, while imposing zero performance impact on running workloads. The scanning process operates through cloud provider APIs and native integration mechanisms, typically delivering complete environment visibility within 24 hours of deployment.
Unified security risk detection and prioritization
Orca's Unified Data Model combines intelligence from both cloud control plane and workload runtime analysis to provide contextual understanding of security risks. The graph-based data model correlates findings across infrastructure configurations, identity permissions, network exposure, and workload contents to identify complex attack paths and prioritize risks based on actual exploitability. The system automatically identifies crown jewel assets and sensitive data, evaluating security issues within their full environmental context rather than in isolation. This approach enables security teams to focus remediation efforts on the small percentage of truly critical risks while avoiding alert fatigue from low-priority issues.
Cloud compliance and governance automation
The platform provides continuous compliance monitoring across major regulatory frameworks and security standards through built-in compliance templates and automated control mapping. Organizations can leverage over 125 out-of-the-box compliance frameworks including ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, as well as industry benchmarks like CIS foundations. The compliance engine automatically tests cloud resources against applicable controls, providing actionable remediation guidance for addressing gaps. The system maintains continuous compliance visibility as environments evolve, with support for custom policy creation and the ability to combine multiple frameworks to address specific organizational requirements.
