Cloud Security

Most organizations deploy five or more siloed security tools, many of them agent-based. This leads to alert fatigue, with a constant stream of (possibly duplicate) alerts that lack context and provide little insight into how and where to respond to the most critical threats. Agent-based security solutions are tedious to deploy and maintain, and only offer partial coverage. New agent installations are continually needed as the cloud environment grows, making it virtually impossible for security teams to keep up with DevOps.

As opposed to other solutions, the agentless-first Orca Platform deploys across your cloud estate in minutes, automatically discovers new assets as your environment expands, and has zero impact on your workloads. And Orca’s context-aware engine separates the 1% of alerts that demand quick action from the 99% that don’t, enabling security teams to avoid alert fatigue and fix the truly critical security issues before attackers can exploit them.

CSPMs are essential for cloud security, however traditional CSPM solutions present important limitations, including:

• Only cover control plane: CSPMs provide visibility into cloud configurations (control plane) but not cloud workloads (data plane). As a result, they have no insight into vulnerabilities, malware, or exposed secrets. 
• Alert fatigue: Without visibility into workloads, CSPM solutions lack the unified insight to fully contextualize risks and prioritize alerts based on the full context. 
• No identity and permissions management: CSPM tools also don’t manage access controls, permissions, or entitlements. To support and enforce the principle of least privilege (PoLP), organizations need a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.

For this reason, CNAPPs (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms) have emerged to address the challenges of using siloed traditional cloud security solutions. A CNAPP is a cloud security solution that detects risks across the full technology stack (control plane and data plane), including cloud misconfigurations, mismanaged identity access, vulnerabilities, malware and data at risk.

Orca provides Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) by: 

1. Promoting identity hygiene, including enforcement of Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP).
2. Detecting deviations from identity best practices.
3. Using identity data to help understand and prioritize the risks that are found in your system.
4. Calculating optimal policy configurations based on role usage in the past 90 days, using Orca’s IAM Policy Optimizer.

While a necessary function of cloud security, vulnerability management solutions can present several challenges, including: 

• Lack of visibility into the full cloud estate increases the likelihood a vulnerability goes undetected. 
• Lack of vulnerability prioritization forces security teams to spend time diagnosing alerts and determining which deserve immediate attention.
• False positives exacerbate alert fatigue and delay the time it takes to respond to actual vulnerabilities. 
• Vulnerability growth makes vulnerability management an ongoing challenge, requiring a sustainable approach to ensure continued protection.

The Orca Cloud Security Platform simplifies multi-cloud compliance across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Orca performs out-of-the-box compliance checks across cloud workloads, configurations, identities, and data, ensuring that security and compliance policies in all cloud provider platforms are aligned. Orca enables organizations to achieve continuous compliance by effectively prioritizing the most critical risks and providing automated and guided remediation options. 

Orca also enhances compliance by enabling organizations to easily create custom frameworks, manage and tailor internal and external reporting, and leverage automation workflows and integrations.