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Orca Security vs RAD Security

The Orca Cloud Security Platform discovers risks across code, cloud, runtime, and AI. RAD Security sells AI Workers that investigate, triage, and act on threats across a customer's entire stack. CISO Tribune files both under Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) and Cloud workload protection. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Orca Security vs RAD Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Orca SecurityThe Orca Cloud Security Platform discovers risks across code, cloud, runtime, and AI.orca.securityRAD SecurityRAD Security sells AI Workers that investigate, triage, and act on threats across a customer's entire stack.radsecurity.ai
What it sells
  • Orca Sensor[4][13]Provides runtime visibility and protection that extends the capabilities of the Orca Cloud Security Platform.
  • API Security[12][14]Identifies, prioritizes, and addresses API misconfigurations and security risks across a cloud estate, without agents or network changes.
  • AI AppGen Security[10]Provides posture management for applications built on AI app generator platforms like Replit, Lovable, Vercel, and Bolt.
  • RAD Bot[6][7][8][9]An AI agent with direct access to a customer's live environment data.
  • RADQL[9][10][11]A SQL-like query language built for security data.
  • AgentKeeper[2][14]An open-source tool that maps a cloud identity attack surface.
  • Evidence Room[12]Aggregates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, runtime threats, and attack paths into one prioritized view.
  • AI Insights[13]Continuously analyzes a cloud-native environment and surfaces what matters most.
  • Explore[6][10]Asset discovery and investigation across a Kubernetes environment, powered by RAD Bot.
  • Dashboards[11]Pre-built and customizable dashboards powered by RADQL.
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Recent news
  • September 16, 2026Orca Security announced a new global Partner POD Program and an AI-powered Partner Success Platform for its partners.[17]
  • May 12, 2026Orca Security announced it was included in Rising in Cyber 2026, an annual list from Notable Capital covering 30 private cybersecurity startups.[6]
  • April 13, 2026Orca Security announced a strategic distribution agreement with TD SYNNEX covering North America.[5]
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Who it fits
Not written yetRAD Security says RADQL lets security teams explore, analyze, and visualize cloud security data. The Evidence Room is described for people who are triaging alerts, remediating issues, or preparing for an audit. RAD Security provides audit-ready compliance documentation for CIS, HIPAA, and NSA Hardening frameworks, among others, and a weekly summary for leadership.
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Where they overlap

  • Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) is the primary category of both Orca Security and RAD Security; both are also filed under Cloud workload protection.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Orca Security is also filed under Cloud detection and response. RAD Security is also filed under Cloud security posture management and Vulnerability management.
  • Orca Security lists Orca Sensor, API Security and AI AppGen Security. RAD Security lists RAD Bot, RADQL, AgentKeeper, Evidence Room, AI Insights and 2 more.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Orca Security and RAD Security primarily under cloud-native application protection (CNAPP), and also files RAD Security under cloud security posture management and vulnerability management. Orca Security sells the Orca Cloud Security Platform along with Orca Sensor, API Security, and AI AppGen Security. RAD Security sells RAD Bot, an AI agent with access to live environment data, plus RADQL, a SQL-like query language, the Evidence Room, AI Insights, Dashboards, and the open-source AgentKeeper.

Orca Security and RAD Security both use eBPF-based technology for runtime visibility. Orca Security describes itself as agentless-first, scanning once cloud provider accounts are connected, and offers SaaS, customer-hosted, and government cloud deployment such as FedRAMP. RAD Security sells AI Workers and RAD Bot, which can query EDR, SIEM, vulnerability scanners, and ticketing systems through a single conversation. Orca Security and RAD Security both generate software bills of materials and map findings to compliance frameworks including PCI-DSS. Orca Security holds FedRAMP Moderate and GovRAMP authorization, while RAD Security states that its infrastructure is SOC 2 Type 2 certified.

Orca Security has raised nearly $630 million at a $1.8 billion valuation from investors including Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI. Orca Security says its customers range from Fortune 500 enterprises to cloud-native disruptors, and it supports customers in the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe. On April 13, 2026, Orca Security announced a distribution agreement with TD SYNNEX covering North America. On September 16, 2026, Orca Security announced a global Partner POD Program and an AI-powered Partner Success Platform.

What it sells: Orca Security

What Orca Sensor does[4][13]
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.
What API Security does[12][14]
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.
What AI AppGen Security does[10]
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.

What it sells: RAD Security

What RAD Bot does[6][7][8][9]
RAD Bot queries a customer's live environment, correlates the results, and delivers findings with full source attribution. RAD Bot connects to Jira, Slack, ServiceNow, and email so users can escalate, assign, and remediate without leaving the conversation. RAD Bot workflows run multi-step investigations automatically and deliver results to an inbox, Slack, email, or ticketing system.
What RADQL does[9][10][11]
RADQL is a SQL-like query language built for security data. RADQL searches containers, correlates vulnerabilities, analyzes runtime behavior, and investigates incidents. RAD Bot can generate RADQL queries from natural language descriptions. RADQL results can be exported to CSV or JSON.
What AgentKeeper does[2][14]
AgentKeeper is RAD Security's open-source tool that maps a cloud identity attack surface. AgentKeeper visualizes IAM permissions, detects over-privileged roles, and uncovers hidden access paths.
What Evidence Room does[12]
The Evidence Room aggregates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, runtime threats, and attack paths into a single prioritized view. Findings in the Evidence Room are automatically mapped to compliance frameworks such as CIS, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and NIST. Findings flow into existing tools so that users can create tickets, alert teams, and export to a SIEM.
What AI Insights does[13]
AI Insights continuously analyzes a cloud-native environment and surfaces what matters most. Every insight is categorized so that issues route to the right team with the right context. Rankings are based on exploitability, blast radius, business context, and attack path relevance.
What Explore does[6][10]
Explore is powered by RAD Bot and the same query engine behind every feature on the platform. RAD Security's sensors continuously discover and track every asset in a Kubernetes environment, including containers, images, workloads, network connections, and process executions.
What Dashboards does[11]
RAD Security dashboards visualize security posture, infrastructure, and compliance data with pre-built templates, flexible widgets, and real-time updates powered by RADQL. Dashboards pull from Kubernetes, cloud, runtime, and external integrations.

Questions about Orca Security and RAD Security

What do Orca Security and RAD Security sell?
Orca Security sells Orca Sensor, API Security and AI AppGen Security. RAD Security sells RAD Bot, RADQL, AgentKeeper, Evidence Room, AI Insights and 2 more.
Are Orca Security and RAD Security in the same category?
Yes. Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Who are Orca Security and RAD Security sold to?
RAD Security says RADQL lets security teams explore, analyze, and visualize cloud security data.
What have Orca Security and RAD Security announced recently?
September 16, 2026: Orca Security announced a new global Partner POD Program and an AI-powered Partner Success Platform for its partners.

About Orca Security

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.[4]

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.[4][8][10][11]

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.[12]

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.[1][4][8]

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.[12][14]

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.[8]

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.[2][3][4][8][15][16]

Orca Security on the record

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Orca Security full record

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  6. [6]Orca Security Named to Rising in Cyber 2026 for Third Consecutive YearBusiness Wire · published May 12, 2026 · Tier A
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RAD Security full record

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  8. [8]Knowledge Base — Searchable Security Knowledge | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]RADQL — Security Query Language | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]RADQL Engine — Advanced Security Analytics | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Security Dashboards — Real-Time Visibility | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Evidence Room — Unified Security Findings | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]AI Insights — Prioritized Security Intelligence | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Exports | RAD Security | RAD SecurityRAD Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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