GenAI has dramatically changed how cloud native applications are built and deployed, leading to both a shift and opportunities for cloud security teams. As developers and DevOps teams leverage GenAI copilots and other modern tools to build applications, security teams are faced with many difficult tasks.
These teams need to monitor AI assets in use and ensure data is protected, all while GenAI accelerates software development. At the same time, security teams are looking for ways that GenAI can accelerate risk prioritization, asset management, and incident response.
Today, I am proud to share that Orca Security continues its mission to enable organizations to thrive securely in the cloud with the acquisition of Opus, the pioneer in agentic AI-powered cloud security remediation and prevention. The time is now for delivering autonomous remediation and prevention to CNAPP using agentic AI.
Orca has Been at the Forefront of GenAI Innovation
Over the past few years, Orca has been at the forefront of GenAI innovation. This strategy has focused on two key areas.
1. Ensuring that organizations can use GenAI securely in the cloud: Security teams need visibility and understanding of GenAI in use at their organizations. These teams want to see the configurations of GenAI services across cloud service providers, the roles and entitlements in use, and the data that the services may be accessing. This set of capabilities is now widely known as AI Security Posture Management, referred to as AI-SPM.
2. Using GenAI within the Orca Platform to accelerate cloud security outcomes: At Orca, we never want to shy away from innovation, that’s why we have securely brought GenAI into our Cloud Security Platform to accelerate remediation and natural language search within our CNAPP. We’ve integrated with the GenAI services across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to provide AI-driven code remediation, search, and understanding of your cloud environments. This saves teams across the organization time and increases overall efficiency.
This strategy of innovation is what brings us to this exciting moment for Orca.
The Time for Agentic AI within CNAPP is Now
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems capable of autonomous decision-making and goal-directed behavior. Unlike traditional AI that passively processes input to generate output, agentic AI can initiate actions, plan across time, and adapt dynamically based on changing environments or feedback. These systems are especially valuable in cybersecurity, where proactive identification and mitigation of threats are crucial.
In the cloud, every organization wants to protect their data – agentic AI will make that even more possible as part of our vision for CNAPP. With great data comes great responsibility, Orca will be the leading CNAPP to leverage agentic AI for prevention of data exposure risks.
What Orca Customers Can Expect from Opus
With the strategic addition of capabilities from Opus, Orca customers can expect:
- More Autonomous Threat Response: Agentic AI can detect anomalies and initiate mitigation protocols without human intervention. For example, it can isolate compromised cloud instances or revoke access permissions in real time, reducing response time dramatically.
- Prioritized Risk Identification and Remediation: In complex cloud environments, risks are often numerous and interrelated. Agentic AI can assess risk severity, contextual relevance, and business impact, then prioritize actions to address the most critical threats first.
- Workflow Automation: Orca plans to integrate agentic AI to streamline workflows, automate repetitive security tasks such as alert triaging, compliance checks, and policy enforcement, and free up analysts to focus on strategic initiatives.
- Continuous Learning and Adaptation: With its goal-oriented design, agentic AI continuously learns from security events and adapts to new threat vectors, keeping pace with evolving cloud architectures and attacker methodologies. By embedding agentic AI into its cloud security operations platform, Orca can move from reactive defense to proactive protection, ultimately improving both the speed and effectiveness of cloud security outcomes.
As of the acquisition, I am proud that the Opus team will be joining the Orca Pod to make this vision a reality within our Platform.
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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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