Lacework logo

How Orca Security Compares to Lacework FortiCNAPP

Features

Orca Security logo

Deployment

Simple Onboarding

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

More Friction

Requires configuration of a mix of cloud service configuration, agentless configuration (for AWS EC2 only), and multi-step agent configuration for different platforms, requiring far more planning & investment to deploy

Compliance

Comprehensive

125+ compliance frameworks covering CIS, NIST, and industry-specific standards with all data and policies shown in a single dashboard for seamless reporting

Limited

Far fewer compliance reports available means compliance teams will spend more time answering questions & completing audits.

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

Limited and Fragmented

Supports generating attack paths only for AWS EC2 instances, no centralized dashboard to investigate attack paths

PII detection

Seamless and Comprehensive

Automatic detection of PII across all cloud resources

None

No classification of data, making it far more difficult to find critical risks

Malware scanning

Robust

Signature and heuristic-based detection efficiently identifies malicious files present even when not executed

No Malware Detection

No scanning for known malware

A true smart platform

Orca Security integrates with your enterprise security, DevOps, management, and messaging platforms brilliantly, ensuring that Orca delivers the right intelligence to the right teams where they’re already working.

As an acquisition, Lacework FortiCNAPP is primarily positioned to keep you inside Fortinet’s ‘Security Fabric’, locking you into Fortinet’s platform instead of using the right tools for your enterprise.

A screenshot of available Orca platform integrations
A screenshot of an EC2 instance within the Orca platform

The agentless security pioneer

Orca’s patent-pending SideScanning technology quickly and easily scans all of your Linux and Windows workloads, including cloud VMs, containers and Kubernetes applications, and serverless functions. Lacework FortiCNAPP provides an agentless approach to vulnerability scanning but requires several agents to be deployed to get full functionality, complicating deployment and maintenance. Orca provides you with instant-on security and complete coverage for all your workloads and applications that Lacework FortiCNAPP 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.

Simple deployment, comprehensive visibility

With Orca Security, a simple, 3-step configuration enables you to get up & running quickly.  Our agentless approach ensures that all the workloads in the cloud account are discovered and assessed without having to deploy additional agents or configure additional scanners. Within hours, you have visibility that goes broad & deep while providing context that shows how an attacker might connect the disparate pieces from an exposed endpoint to critical data.

Lacework FortiCNAPP requires a complex array of configurations and agent deployments to get full functionality, making it more difficult and expensive to fully deploy.

A screenshot of advanced search options within the Orca platform
A screenshot of the compliance dashboard within the Orca platform

Govern confidently with strong, continuous compliance

Orca supports a culture of continuous compliance with over 125 compliance frameworks, as well as our own Orca Best Practices and custom frameworks. This ensures that you can view compliance in a single dashboard and report covering your cloud infrastructure, data, identities, workloads, and more.  

Lacework FortiCNAPP’s compliance functionality is poorly integrated into the larger platform, pointing users at static documentation for further details rather than providing continuous alerting of new compliance violations.

Dive Deeper into Orca Security