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Orca Security

by Orca Security

Agentless cloud security platform with CSPM, vulnerability management, and workload protection for APAC organisations managing cloud risk across multi-cloud environments without operational agent overhead.

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Recommended
5/5

"Orca Security is the agentless cloud security platform for APAC organisations — CSPM, vulnerability management, and workload protection across multi-cloud environments. Best for APAC security teams wanting deep cloud risk discovery without agent-based scanning overhead."

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What it does

Key features

  • SideScanning — agentless workload analysis via cloud storage snapshots without performance impact
  • Asset discovery — comprehensive cloud resource inventory across APAC multi-cloud environments
  • Vulnerability management — CVE scanning for OS and application packages across cloud workloads
  • CSPM — cloud configuration assessment with APAC compliance framework mapping (MAS TRM, PCI DSS)
  • Identity and access risk — IAM misconfiguration and overprivilege detection across APAC cloud accounts
  • Malware detection — cloud workload malware scanning from storage snapshot analysis
  • Secrets detection — exposed credential and API key discovery in cloud workloads and storage
When to reach for it

Best for

  • APAC cloud security teams wanting comprehensive workload visibility without agent operational overhead
  • Organisations with dynamic auto-scaling APAC cloud infrastructure where agent deployment is impractical
  • APAC compliance-driven organisations needing cloud configuration assessment against MAS TRM and PCI DSS
  • Security teams wanting risk-prioritised cloud vulnerability findings rather than raw CVE score lists
Don't get burned

Limitations to know

  • ! Orca enterprise pricing requires business case justification for APAC SMBs — evaluate cloud-native tools for smaller environments
  • ! SideScanning snapshot approach means vulnerability data has some latency — not real-time continuous monitoring
  • ! Runtime threat detection (active attack detection on running workloads) is less mature than agent-based EDR solutions
  • ! APAC-specific cloud provider coverage (Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud) is limited — China-market cloud security requires supplementary tooling
Context

About Orca Security

Orca Security is an agentless cloud security platform that provides APAC organisations with cloud security posture management (CSPM), vulnerability management, malware detection, and identity risk assessment across AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud environments — using a proprietary SideScanning technology that reads cloud workload data directly from cloud storage snapshots without requiring agent installation on running workloads.

Orca's SideScanning technology — which creates out-of-band snapshots of cloud instances and containers, analyses the snapshot data for vulnerabilities, installed packages, OS configurations, exposed secrets, and malware signatures, and then discards the snapshot — provides comprehensive workload security visibility without the performance impact, deployment complexity, or coverage gaps that agent-based scanning tools create on dynamic APAC cloud environments with auto-scaling workloads.

Orca's unified asset inventory — which discovers and maps every cloud resource in an APAC organisation's multi-cloud environment (EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS databases, Lambda functions, EKS clusters, managed services) and assesses each for security risks — provides APAC security teams with the comprehensive cloud asset visibility that is the prerequisite for effective cloud security governance. APAC cloud environments that lack a comprehensive asset inventory have security blind spots in resources that were provisioned without security team awareness — Orca's automatic discovery eliminates these blind spots.

Orca's risk prioritisation — which scores cloud risks based on severity of the vulnerability, accessibility from the internet, proximity to sensitive data, and blast radius if exploited — enables APAC security teams to focus remediation effort on the highest-impact cloud risks rather than addressing undifferentiated vulnerability lists by CVSS score alone. An APAC security team with 500 open cloud findings can identify the 10 that represent active exploitation risk and require immediate remediation, versus the 490 that are low-exploitability findings requiring scheduled remediation.

Orca's compliance assessment — which maps cloud environment configuration to PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, and Singapore MAS TRM framework controls — generates compliance gap reports that APAC security and compliance teams use for audit preparation and regulatory evidence documentation. APAC financial institutions demonstrating cloud security governance to MAS auditors can export Orca compliance assessment results as structured audit evidence.

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