How Orca Security Compares to Wiz

Focused on What Security Teams Need

Orca Security started with the vision of making a cloud security platform that enables security teams to get the intelligence they need to efficiently do stuff. In contrast, Wiz’s platform is often panned for focusing more on flash than on delivering the depth and flexibility that modern cloud security demands.

Features

Agentless Scanning

The Original And Still The Champ

Full stack support for hosts, containers, and functions. Automated malware and PII detection. Automated and manual crown jewel identification.

Fast Follower

Followed Orca’s patented SideScanning technology.

Dynamic Risk Scoring

Orca Does The Work

Every alert is dynamically scored across multiple dimensions, ensuring that teams know which risks are most critical. Reduce your investment in triage and improve your security outcomes by focusing on the tasks that are most critical.

Wiz Doesn’t

Alerts in Wiz lack granular prioritization based on the entire context of a risk and asset. Security teams spend more time figuring out what’s really important and less time resolving them.

Smart Platform

Part of the Team

Modern enterprises don’t run on a single platform. Orca integrates seamlessly with the tools and services you’re using to ensure that your teams get the right intelligence delivered where they’re working.

Locking You In

Wiz wants to push everybody into the Wiz UI – a clear benefit to Wiz but, for security teams, another tool to train users on, manage access to, and fragment user attention.

Deployment Options

Do It Your Way

Orca supports three deployment modes including a full SaaS deployment, flexible In-Account scanning, and the fully self-hosted Bring Your Own Cloud option to enable organizations to meet both their privacy and their operational cost metrics. For orgs that must meet enhanced privacy requirements, Orca’s laser focus on efficiency ensures that the self-hosted components of In-Account and Bring Your Own Cloud don’t break the bank.

Inflexible, Expensive

Wiz only offers a full SaaS mode and an In-Account equivalent referred to as Outpost. Deployments of Outpost have much higher resource requirements, costing organizations many times what Orca’s In-Account mode costs.

Inventory

Professional Tools

Orca’s Discovery feature enables users to answer questions, whether simple or very complex, using elegant tools in a repeatable fashion. Analysts become empowered to query and analyze the entire inventory, finding exactly what they’re looking for.

Graph Madness

Wiz wants users to answer questions manually by traversing their graph view to find the answer. While this very visual approach is initially appealing, it quickly becomes a slog for users with complex problems to investigate.

Orca’s dynamic risk scores prioritize threats with full context awareness

Orca assigns a dynamic risk score to every alert based on the severity of the risk, the likelihood of exploitation, and the value of the asset involved. Lots of products claim to enable organizations to focus on the most critical risks but most – Wiz, for example – fail to take into account all of the context that contributes to the potential damage that might come.

A screenshot of a Jenkins vulnerability detailing the associated risk factors in the Orca platform

A screenshot of some integrations available in the Orca platform

A security platform to build on

In real-world organizations, a security platform won’t be best without integrating into the other platforms and processes that the business runs on. Orca is committed to playing well with others and that commitment is immediately visible in everything from best-in-class integration with ticketing systems such as Jira and ServiceNow, enabling security teams to put the right intelligence in front of developers, operations, SOC teams, and other stakeholders, to innovative integrations with security agents such as Aqua Enforcer, enhancing the runtime detection that the SOC relies on with Orca’s unparalleled visibility & context.

Wiz’s alternative is something they call “the democratization of security”, which really means making everybody from developers to auditors log into Wiz’s platform and click endlessly around to find the information they need.

All of your data, at your fingertips

Questions come at security teams fast and being able to find the right answers efficiently is critical. Orca Security has the deepest data and, equally importantly, the most flexible tools for finding the answer you’re looking for. Discovery provides powerful, flexible, easy-to-learn tools to answer every question and, with AI Discovery Search, anybody can get started. Whether you’re looking for Lambda functions using deprecated frameworks or all Artificial Intelligence assets with vulnerabilities that might expose them to compromise, Orca’s got you covered.

Wiz’s simpler data model and tools show you what Wiz thinks you want to see…but not necessarily what you need to see.

A screenshot of the advanced search capabilities within the Orca platform

A screenshot of the compliance dashboard within the Orca platform

Real solutions for real problems

In a world where many security vendors focus on hype, Orca has always been focused on delivering a platform that solves the things our customers need to solve. We believe we need to make cloud security teams more efficient, extend security across the entire lifecycle of cloud applications, and build a platform that integrates smartly into how organizations function. Everything we do aligns clearly to these goals.

Wiz has been more focused on finding the spotlight than solving customers’ problems.

A screenshot of the Orca platform dashboard

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How Orca Security Compares to Wiz