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Orca Security
Cybersecurity
Orca Security is an Israeli-founded cloud security company providing agentless cloud security scanning that identifies vulnerabilities and risks across cloud infrastructure without requiring software agents installed on every system.
-$7.91
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30 days ago
$12.87
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Orca Security was founded in 2019 by Avi Shua and Gil Geron, based on the observation that many traditional cloud security tools require installing a software agent, meaning a small piece of monitoring software, on every individual cloud workload, such as every virtual machine or container, that a company wants to secure, an approach that can create significant operational overhead deploying and maintaining agents across potentially thousands of cloud resources, and that inevitably leaves security blind spots for any workloads where an agent hasn't been properly installed or is malfunctioning, a meaningful risk given how large and constantly changing many cloud environments are. Orca's core technical innovation, which it calls "SideScanning," analyzes cloud infrastructure and identifies security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations by directly reading the underlying data and configuration of cloud workloads through cloud provider APIs, rather than requiring an agent to be installed and continuously running on every individual system being monitored, an approach the company argues provides more complete coverage across a cloud environment, since it doesn't depend on successfully deploying and maintaining agents everywhere, while also reducing the operational overhead and potential performance impact that installing security agents on every cloud workload can create. The company's platform covers a range of cloud security use cases, including vulnerability management, identifying misconfigured cloud resources that could expose data or create security risks, and detecting potential malware, combining what have sometimes been separate point security tools into a more unified cloud security platform. Orca has positioned its agentless approach as a key differentiator relative to some competing cloud security vendors that rely more heavily on agent-based monitoring, arguing this approach provides both more complete coverage and faster time-to-value for organizations adopting its platform, since agentless scanning can typically be deployed and begin providing security visibility more quickly than agent-based approaches requiring individual agent deployment across a cloud environment. Orca's customers span organizations across many industries with significant cloud infrastructure footprints. The company has raised very substantial venture funding from investors including Iconiq Growth, GGV Capital, and Redpoint Ventures, reaching a valuation exceeding $1.8 billion.
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