How Orca Security Compares to CrowdStrike

Orca Leads with a Purpose-Built Platform

Orca Security is built from the ground up to solve one problem: Cloud Security. From the industry-first agentless SideScanning’s comprehensive cloud coverage to full lifecycle Application Security capabilities that find security problems from your first code check-in, enabling cloud security teams to deliver better outcomes with less investment. CrowdStrike’s strengths lay outside the cloud, and Falcon Cloud Security delivers incomplete and fragmented tools for cloud security teams.

Features

Deployment

Easy Onboarding

Simple 3-step activation model scans your cloud accounts, assets, workloads, data, and identities across multiple clouds without having to deploy agents.

Difficult Activation and Optimization

Multi-stage activation includes onboarding users to multiple locations. Agent-based Defender deployments need to be done alongside every single workload.

Asset Inventory

Unified

Continuously monitor public cloud services and configurations, entitlements and identities, workloads and applications, all from a single dashboard with powerful search features.

Limited

Limited cloud coverage and clean, simple inventory views fall apart as organizations grow their footprint across clouds.

Attack Path Analysis

Automated and Interactive

Interactive dashboard, with automated impact score, surfaces toxic combinations of risks so teams can prioritize and fix the top 1% of issues.

All risks mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Alert Overload

Falcon Cloud Security lacks contextual prioritization of alerts, leaving analysts to sort through a mess of alerts to determine what’s truly critical.

Operationalization

Batteries Included

Agentless-first methodology, strong integrations, and world-class support enable Orca Security customers to get deployed quickly and to secure their cloud with little overhead.

Not Included by Default

With the added overhead of deploying a heavy agent and limited integration, Falcon Cloud Security users rely on paid services, increasing the total cost of ownership and slowing deployment.

AppSec

Unified with Context

Orca’s world-class Application Security solution enables visibility and enforcement across the entire application lifecycle, ensuring that developers and security teams get the intelligence they need where they need it.

Incomplete

Falcon Cloud Security only offers scanning of Infrastructure as Code artifacts without context, ensuring that everybody is less effective.

A purpose-built platform to simplify cloud security

To secure the cloud, security teams want to easily onboard cloud accounts, quickly activate security capabilities, and avoid operational overhead from traditional, agent-based solutions–ensuring comprehensive coverage across the entire cloud tech stack.

With Orca Security, you benefit from a purpose-built Cloud Security Platform that addresses all of your cloud risks, realizing value very quickly with Orca’s unified, agentless-first approach to cloud security.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security delivers a mashup of agent-based and agentless features, requiring dramatically more investment in deployment and management as well as significant overhead to run the Falcon agent on cloud workloads.

A screenshot of the Orca platform's alerts dashboard

The agentless security pioneer

Orca’s patented SideScanning technology quickly and easily scans all of your Linux and Windows workloads, including cloud VMs, containers and Kubernetes applications, and serverless functions, without the need to deploy and update agents like CrowdStrike Falcon. This provides you with instant-on security and complete coverage for all your workloads and applications that CrowdStrike can’t match. Within the Orca UI, you can view detailed risk prioritization information about all of your assets with context to understand your greatest risks and the impact to your business.

A unified data model

The Orca Platform brings all of your data into a unified, easily-queryable location. With Orca’s Unified Data Model, you can view assets, compliance status, risks, and security incidents from one dashboard, rather than constantly hopping between multiple screens in Falcon Cloud Security to only see part of the problem.

A screenshot of an attack path for a public-facing asset identified by the Orca platform

A screenshot of a code repository with identified security vulnerabilities in the Orca platform

Full lifecycle AppSec

Orca provides visibility into the entire lifecycle of your applications, scanning for vulnerabilities, source code defects, secrets, and misconfigurations in your source control platform, CI/CD pipelines, and deployed cloud assets. We believe that correcting issues early and connecting from code all the way to deployed assets (and back) are the keys to maximizing the impact of cloud security teams.

CrowdStrike offers limited scanning of Infrastructure as Code artifacts with little integration with the rest of the Falcon Cloud Security Platform. Security teams are left to address all security challenges post-deployment and to struggle to identify which teams need to address those challenges.

A screenshot of the Orca platform dashboard

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How Orca Security Compares to CrowdStrike