According to VulnCheck, roughly a third of vulnerabilities now fit the description of “Zero Day,” meaning they’re exploited on or before the day of CVE disclosure. In the era of cloud computing and AI-powered threats, security teams must defend a more expansive attack surface and do so faster than ever before.
For modern defenders, Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) represents the last line of defense against adversaries that have gained a foothold in cloud environments. Defenders’ ability to stop or contain an active breach depends on how quickly they can detect, investigate, and respond to suspicious behavior. When speed matters, delays in threat intelligence can be costly.
By ingesting and delivering near real-time event feeds from cloud-native services such as AWS GuardDuty, Orca enables security teams to detect and respond to emerging threats as they unfold, without sacrificing the benefits of a unified, agentless-first approach.
Near real-time event feed
The challenge: Security teams often rely on native consoles to view active events. While these tools are effective within their respective environments, they can fragment visibility across multiple clouds. For multi-cloud organizations, this means toggling between consoles or depending on third-party tools that update too slowly to track near real-time activity.
The solution: Near real-time log ingestion enables security teams to view events from AWS in a unified, continuously updated feed. Instead of monitoring separate dashboards or waiting for delayed updates, teams can track high-fidelity event data as it’s generated. This consolidated view accelerates threat detection and streamlines investigations, ensuring defenders always have the full picture.
Near real-time detection
The challenge: Detecting threats as they occur requires more than ingesting logs—it demands the ability to interpret patterns, anomalies, and relationships in real time. Without this context, teams are flooded with alerts that lack prioritization or actionable insight.
The solution: By applying Orca’s unified context and dynamic risk scoring to continuously ingested cloud telemetry, teams can distinguish between noise and true risk immediately. Each alert includes a numerical risk score, a breakdown of contributing factors, and detailed security graphs showing affected assets and relationships. This allows analysts to see how a single event fits into a broader attack path, enabling faster and more confident decisions.
Accelerated remediation
The challenge: Even when detection is immediate, many teams struggle to act quickly enough to neutralize threats. Manual playbooks and ticket-based workflows can delay response efforts, giving attackers precious time to exploit vulnerabilities.
The solution: By combining near real-time detection with AI-driven remediation, teams can generate high-quality fixes within moments of alerting. The Orca Platform delivers context-aware, code-ready fixes that integrate seamlessly with ticketing systems and developer workflows. Whether the response involves rotating a key, updating a policy, or isolating a resource, teams can move from detection to mitigation in record time, without leaving the Orca Platform.
Command your cloud with Orca
Orca offers a unified and comprehensive cloud security platform that identifies, prioritizes, and remediates security risks and compliance issues across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Kubernetes. The Orca Cloud Security Platform leverages Orca’s patented SideScanning™ technology to provide complete coverage and comprehensive risk detection.
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