Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
The true CNAPP that secures all your cloud assets, data, cloud native applications, APIs, and more from a single platform
The Challenge
Siloed Point Solutions and Poorly Integrated CNAPPs
Security teams waste valuable time deploying and administering disparate point solutions and correlating high-volume, low-risk alert data from multiple or disjointed security tools. This leads to inefficiency and, even more importantly, the inability to see the big picture, which is essential to identifying attack paths and understanding which risks are the most critical and need to be fixed first.
Critical alerts are being missed because of alert fatigue caused by having too many point solutions.
Several ‘CNAPP’ solutions have been stitched together by acquiring different tools, lacking the unified insights of a true CNAPP.
Many CNAPP tools only offer limited shift left capabilities and completely miss tying issues in production back to code origin.
Our Approach
A Purpose-Built Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
Orca’s agentless-first CNAPP for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes was built from the ground up as a truly unified cloud native platform: a single platform that provides 100% coverage, detects risks at every layer of your cloud estate, and sees the bigger picture to effectively identify the most critical risks that security teams should focus on.
Purpose-built CNAPP
Orca unifies many different point solutions in one platform, such as CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, DSPM, Container security, and much more.
Risk prioritization with attack path analysis
Orca effectively prioritizes risks and recognizes when seemingly unrelated issues can be combined to create dangerous attack paths straight to your crown jewels.
Full lifecycle security
Orca’s CNAPP shifts security left by seamlessly integrating into the CI/CD process so that applications can be secured from code to cloud – and back.
AI-powered
Orca’s CNAPP leverages Generative AI to lower skill thresholds, simplify tasks, accelerate remediation, and improve understanding of risk.
2024 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
The Comprehensive CNAPP with 100% coverage
Orca’s patented SideScanning™ technology allows you to deploy comprehensive cloud native security in minutes without requiring agents – providing 100% continuous coverage and automatically including any newly added assets.
- Replace many disparate point solutions with a purpose-built CNAPP that combines workload-deep intelligence with cloud configuration metadata in a truly unified data model.
- Surface all cloud risks, including vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, lateral movement risks, IAM risks, API risks, sensitive data at risk, and suspicious activities.
- Streamline cloud security and compliance across all your cloud platforms from a single CNAPP, ensuring policies are aligned and avoiding duplicate efforts.
Strategic remediation with attack path analysis to understand risks
With multi-cloud attack path analysis, Orca helps security teams work smarter and utilize their resources in the most effective way. Instead of trying to fix all risks, Orca shows teams how to remediate strategically by highlighting which cloud security risks:
- Endanger their most critical business assets
- Are part of the most attack paths with the highest severity
- Affect the most cloud assets
- Are exposed by the most cloud assets
Armed with this intelligence, security teams instantly know where their time is best spent, relieving alert overload and burnout, as well as dramatically improving security outcomes.
Security across the full application lifecycle–and back again
Orca’s CNAPP secures cloud native applications in development by identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations as code is built before it’s deployed to production and helps security teams coordinate remediation with development and DevOps.
- Orca enables organizations to apply security policies early in development to avoid issues making it to production.
- Automatically run compliance and security checks as part of the CI/CD process, including IaC template and container image scanning.
- Orca traces findings from the production environment to their code origins, greatly accelerating the remediation of risks in cloud native applications.
Augmented Cloud Security with Generative AI
The Orca CNAPP Platform widely leverages AI to enhance the detection of risks, simplify investigations, and speed up remediation – saving cloud security, DevOps, and development teams time and effort while significantly improving security outcomes:
- Accelerate cloud security remediation by applying AI-generated code for IaC and CLI or following steps in the console.
- With cloud asset search that is as intuitive as asking a question, teams across the organization are empowered to make data-driven decisions.
- Quickly apply identity policies to effortlessly right-size permissions and entitlements.
Complete and Prioritized Cloud Risk Intelligence
Austin, Texas
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AWS, GCP
“Orca adds value practically from the first day of use. With other tools, we wait months to see value coming from them.”
San Francisco, California, USA
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AWS
“Orca gives us a complete cloud inventory to know about all our assets and workloads for vulnerability management.”
São Paulo, Brazil
Finance
AWS, GCP
“Since the beginning, security has always been one of the most important pillars for C6 Bank. Orca helps us strengthen that pillar.”
Frequently Asked Questions
A Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) is a cloud security solution that provides comprehensive coverage and visibility into multi-cloud environments, while also detecting risks across the full technology stack. This includes cloud misconfigurations, mismanaged identity access, vulnerabilities, and insecure workloads.
First named as a cloud security category by Gartner in 2020, CNAPPs have emerged as an alternative solution to many traditional cloud security tools, integrating their disparate capabilities into one platform. This includes Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM), and other solutions such as compliance tools, API Security and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM).
CNAPPs have emerged to address the challenges of using siloed traditional cloud security solutions. CNAPPs offer a number of benefits, including:
- Improved cloud risk management: Advanced CNAPP solutions centralize cloud security insights, fully contextualize and prioritize risks, detect new issues and threats, and provide reporting, analytics, and remediation guidance.
- Comprehensive cloud visibility: Agentless-first CNAPPs provide complete visibility across cloud infrastructure and workloads, including containers and serverless functions.
- Lower TCO and licensing costs: By consolidating standalone tools, many CNAPPs allow organizations to reduce their cloud security spend.
- Enhanced compliance: CNAPPs ease compliance efforts, lower costs, and improve adherence.
- Support for DevSecOps: Some CNAPPs offer “Shift Left” security capabilities that detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and malware early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), making it possible to fix problems before being pushed into production. This reduces development costs, accelerates production, and eases friction between security and development teams.
CNAPPs manage risks and compliance issues across an organization’s entire cloud estate, including multi-cloud environments. CNAPPs perform the following activities to provide complete visibility, coverage, and protection:
- Provide a full inventory of cloud assets: Track and present a detailed inventory of cloud assets and applications.
- Detect cloud risks and generate alerts: Identify all risks and compliance issues in the cloud environment,create alerts, and prioritize issues for remediation.
- Continuously monitor: Continuously monitor the cloud environment to discover new assets, issues, and risks.
- Integrate with productivity and security tools: Communicate with common security and productivity tools (e.g., SIEM, ticketing systems, developer tools, etc.) to streamline and enhance workflows.
- Reporting: Generate reports to assist with compliance efforts, internal and external communications, and other purposes.
CNAPP actually combines the capabilities of CSPM (detect misconfigurations and compliance), CWPP (detect vulnerabilities, malware, and exposed secrets in cloud-based workloads across virtual machines (VMs), containers, and serverless functions), CIEM (manage access rights and permissions for your cloud resources), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Kubernetes and container security, API security, and more.
Orca Cloud Security Platform was built from the ground up as a truly unified cloud native platform: a single platform that provides 100% coverage, detects risks at every layer of your cloud estate, and sees the bigger picture to effectively identify the most critical risks that security teams should focus on.
Because Orca is agentless-first, the platform deploys in minutes with no downtime and without impacting workload performance or DevOps workflows—while maintaining full visibility as your cloud estate evolves. In addition to containers, serverless, and cloud infrastructure, Orca discovers and monitors idle, paused, and stopped workloads, orphaned systems, and devices that can’t support agents.
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