Workload Protection

Despite being a crucial cloud security solution, CWPP tools present important limitations, including:

• No visibility into the control plane: CWPPs only provide visibility into and security for workloads, not the cloud control plane, including misconfigurations such as publicly exposed storage buckets. 
• Inability to contextualize risks: Because CWPP solutions can’t see into the cloud control plane, they also can’t account for contextual factors that may make a risk more or less severe. As a result, they can’t effectively alert teams and prioritize their efforts to focus on the most critical risks.
• Limited coverage: Traditional CWPPs are agent-based and therefore require individual agents to be installed and maintained for every cloud asset. This creates blind spots in cloud security. However modern CWPPs, such as the Orca Platform, provide instant 100% workload coverage and combine CWPP with other cloud security capabilities such as CSPM, CIEM, DSPM, and more. 
• No detection for lateral movement: Without an additional solution, CWPP tools can’t identify keys that hackers could exploit to move laterally and access other assets.

Agent-based CWPPs require tedious deployments and management for each workload, leading to high TCO. Vendors offering a choice between agents and agentless approaches only add to the complexity and often have hidden limits on their ‘agentless’ capabilities. In addition, CWPPs only cover cloud workloads and miss risks in the cloud control plane, such as misconfigurations and overly permissive identities.

This limited visibility impacts the tool’s ability to provide full security coverage and effective alert prioritization. Any risks due to cloud misconfiguration (such as MFA not being enabled for the ‘root’ user account or KMS encryption keys not being rotated) cannot be detected by a CWPP. This lack of visibility also means CWPPs lack the context necessary to understand the full implications of a security issue and are therefore unable to prioritize alerts based on environmental context. This causes “swivel chair” alert triage, which leads to alert fatigue.

The Orca Platform provides full-stack visibility of your cloud estate, spanning the cloud infrastructure, OS, application, and data layers, without requiring a single agent and providing instant and continuous 100% coverage of your cloud assets.

Container and Kubernetes vulnerabilities can result in data breaches, unauthorized access to sensitive information, and disruption to business continuity. Since containers and Kubernetes were originally designed for functionality and not security, they lack important security controls and capabilities to address issues such as misconfigurations, vulnerable images or components, sidecar injection, and orchestration layer privilege escalation. Container and Kubernetes Security allows organizations to proactively detect and mitigate security risks, prevent unauthorized access, and maintain a robust security posture.

Traditional API Security tools present several challenges, including:

1. API sprawl: The inability to effectively inventory APIs, preventing organizations from discovering rogue endpoints. 
2. Lack of visibility into unmanaged APIs: Unmanaged APIs create vulnerabilities that can lead to security incidents. 
3. Understanding high vs. low priority API risks: API Security tools lack visibility into the cloud plane or workload data. As a result, they can’t effectively communicate or contextualize API risks. 
4. APIs change fast and often: The speed of cloud-based application development and growing adoption of CI/CD processes make it unrealistic to manually track changes in APIs. Each API change requires the manual reconfiguring of traditional security tools. 
5. Understanding API risk exposure is difficult: As a result of incomplete API inventories, not keeping track of API changes, and incomplete insight into context, organizations can’t easily get answers to their API exposure questions.

However, Orca Cloud Security Platform solves these problems by offering agentless API Security in combination with comprehensive insights into cloud workloads and configurations to provide security teams with a 360-degree view of APIs and related risks, effortlessly scaling as your cloud environment grows.

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.