Orca Security

What the company sells

The Orca Cloud Security Platform discovers risks across code, cloud, runtime, and AI. The platform unifies cloud posture, identity permissions, workload security, sensitive data at risk, and runtime threats into one connected view. Orca applies a risk score to each alert, considering severity, accessibility, exploitability, and business impact. Orca evaluates and prioritizes the paths to crown jewels, combining misconfigurations, identity risks, lateral movement and more.

Orca Security offers a product area for knowing cloud exposure and proving to the board that risk is under control. Orca Security offers a product area for governing every AI system in the cloud. Orca finds every AI model, package, and agent running across a cloud, including shadow AI. AI AppGen Security is posture management for applications built on AI app generator platforms like Replit, Lovable, Vercel, and Bolt. AI AppGen Security continuously discovers apps built on those platforms, identifies the misconfigurations they ship with by default, and connects each finding to the surrounding cloud environment. AI AppGen Security is a capability within Orca's existing AI Security, not a standalone tool. Orca AI includes Core Agents, a natural-language AI Assistant, and an MCP Server, all grounded in Orca's Unified Data Model.

Orca scans code, dependencies, IaC, images, and secrets agentlessly and prioritizes each finding by what is reachable and exposed in the running cloud. Orca scores every code vulnerability against live cloud context: reachability, internet exposure, identity permissions, and proximity to sensitive data. Orca generates SBOMs and flags vulnerable and license-risky open-source packages before they ship. Orca pushes findings and context straight into the IDE, repos, and ticketing tools that developers use. For high-impact issues, Orca drafts AI-generated fixes and opens pull requests. Orca's AppSec Triage Agent uses code context to automatically deprioritize false positives and escalate true positives.

Orca Security offers a product area for hardening every cloud workload without slowing pipelines down. SideScanning™ technology covers VMs, containers, and serverless, and cloud infrastructure resources such as storage buckets, VPCs, and KMS keys. Orca Security offers a product area for catching cloud and AI attacks as they unfold and containing the blast radius. Orca Sensor provides runtime visibility and protection that extends the capabilities of the Orca Cloud Security Platform. Orca Sensor monitors runtime activity across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments. Orca Sensor secures workloads across Linux, Kubernetes, and Windows environments, including servers and workstations. Orca Sensor uses eBPF-based technology to deliver runtime visibility and protection. Orca Sensor includes a library of runtime detections that alert on active threats and can be configured to terminate processes. Orca Sensor identifies whether a vulnerable package is actually being executed. Orca monitors AI workloads at runtime, detecting model exfiltration attempts, prompt injection patterns, unusual inference traffic, and configuration drift.

Orca offers API Security to identify, prioritize, and address API misconfigurations and security risks across a cloud estate, without agents or network changes. Orca provides security teams with a full inventory of APIs and related web domains in their cloud estate, and API-related security and compliance risks, without agents. Orca continuously monitors API behavior and usage and alerts teams to potentially unwanted API drift. Orca scans a cloud estate and surfaces potentially hazardous API security risks, providing actionable data and remediation suggestions. Orca provides linked alerts for adhering to compliance frameworks like PCI-DSS.

Orca states that, since Orca is agentless-first, scanning can start as soon as cloud provider accounts are connected, without the need to install agents. Orca offers three deployment options: a SaaS platform, hosting in the customer's own boundary, and running from government cloud such as FedRAMP. Orca connects to Slack for alerting, Jira for ticketing, and SIEM platforms for streaming data.

Orca Security is FedRAMP® Moderate and GovRAMP® authorized and TX-RAMP certified. The Orca Platform is FedRAMP Moderate and StateRAMP authorized and holds SOC 2 TYPE II, ISO/EC 27001, ISO/EC 27017, and ISO/EC 27018 certifications. Orca supports 150+ compliance frameworks and CIS benchmarks, including NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, DISA STIG, and ISO 27001. Access to the Orca Platform can be procured from partners including Carahsoft, SAIC, GuidePoint Security, Lumen technologies, Braxton Grant technologies, and Optiv+Clearshark. Orca Security is available on the GSA Multiple Schedule through its partner Guidepoint Federal. Orca has full-time dedicated technical support staff based in the US. Orca Security's customers range from Fortune 500 enterprises to cloud-native disruptors. Orca Security supports customers in the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Orca Security brought its platform to market in 2019. Orca Security has raised nearly $630 million in combined funds at a $1.8 billion valuation. Orca Security's investors include Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI.^{[1][2][3][4][8][10][11][12][14][15][16]}

Categories

• Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) (primary category)
• Cloud workload protection
• Cloud detection and response
• Compare Orca Security with companies in the same categoryside by side

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Website

orca.security

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

• Orca Sensor^[4][13]

  Provides runtime visibility and protection that extends the capabilities of the Orca Cloud Security Platform.

  Orca Sensor monitors runtime activity across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments. Orca Sensor uses eBPF-based technology to deliver runtime visibility and protection. Orca Sensor identifies whether a vulnerable package is actually being executed.

• API Security^[12][14]

  Identifies, prioritizes, and addresses API misconfigurations and security risks across a cloud estate, without agents or network changes.

  Orca provides security teams with a full inventory of APIs and related web domains in their cloud estate, and API-related security and compliance risks, without agents. Orca continuously monitors API behavior and usage and alerts teams to potentially unwanted API drift. Orca scans a cloud estate and surfaces potentially hazardous API security risks, providing actionable data and remediation suggestions.

• AI AppGen Security^[10]

  Provides posture management for applications built on AI app generator platforms like Replit, Lovable, Vercel, and Bolt.

  AI AppGen Security continuously discovers apps built on those platforms and identifies the misconfigurations they ship with by default. AI AppGen Security connects each finding to the surrounding cloud environment.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of Orca Security's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

• On cloud-native application protection (cnapp), Orca Security competes with Lacework, Sysdig, Uptycs, Wiz, Aqua Security, Plerion, RAD Security, Sweet Security, Upwind, Cyscale and 12 more.

• On cloud workload protection, Orca Security competes with AccuKnox, Modelyo, Oligo, Raven.io, VMware, Lacework, Sysdig, Uptycs, Wiz, Aqua Security and 3 more.

• On cloud detection and response, Orca Security competes with Miggo, Mitiga, Skyhawk Security, Stream.Security, Lacework, Sysdig, Uptycs, Wiz, Sweet Security, Upwind and 4 more.

What review platforms show

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• G2 · 4.7 out of 5 · 315 reviews^[7]seen November 10, 2026

Recent news

Dated company events from the last twelve months, each in one sentence of ours with its source. Newest first.

• September 16, 2026

  Orca Security announced a new global Partner POD Program and an AI-powered Partner Success Platform for its partners. Orca Security^[17]

• May 12, 2026

  Orca Security announced it was included in Rising in Cyber 2026, an annual list from Notable Capital covering 30 private cybersecurity startups. Business Wire^[6]

• April 13, 2026

  Orca Security announced a strategic distribution agreement with TD SYNNEX covering North America. Business Wire^[5]

References

Every fact above cites one of these by number. Tier A is the company itself, a regulator or a filing; tier B is trade or business press.

1. [1]orca.securityOrca Security · orca.security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
2. [2]PlatformOrca Security · orca.security · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
3. [3]Orca Security Report 99.9 of Fixable AI Vulnerabilities Remain Unpatched as AI Moves Into ProductionOrca Security via Business Wire · businesswire.com · published July 9, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
4. [4]Orca Security | AI-Powered Cloud Security Platform & CNAPPOrca Security · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
5. [5]Orca Security Accelerates AI-Driven Cloud Security Growth with TD SYNNEX PartnershipBusiness Wire · published April 13, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
6. [6]Orca Security Named to Rising in Cyber 2026 for Third Consecutive YearBusiness Wire · published May 12, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
7. [7]Orca Security Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier C
8. [8]Trusted Cloud Security Platform | Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
9. [9]Government Cloud Security | Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
10. [10]AI AppGen Security: Uncover Shadow App Builders | Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
11. [11]Orca AI Overview: AI Agents, MCP Server & Assistant | Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
12. [12]Code Securely with Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
13. [13]Runtime Visibility and Protection for Cloud and AI | Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
14. [14]API Security Company and Services | Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
15. [15]About Us - Cloud Security Innovation | Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
16. [16]Sales Engineer | Orca SecurityOrca Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
17. [17]Orca Launches AI-Powered Partner Success PlatformOrca Security · published September 16, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

Last verified September 27, 2026. Our code found the quoted passage behind each fact on its source page when the fact was recorded, and re-checks every record against its sources each month.

Recorded September 27, 2026, expanded November 10, 2026 from the references above.

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