Orca Security Wants To Streamline Cloud Computing
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Israeli upstart Orca Security has raised $55m to fund its plan to disrupt the cloud security industry with touchless, workload-deep, context-aware security and compliance for AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The aim of the company is to reduce thousands of security alerts to the critical few that matter, along with their precise path to remediation.
“Cloud security is fundamentally broken. Practitioners are forced to waste their time installing and maintaining security agents instead of managing actual security risks,” said Avi Shua, CEO of Orca Security.
Orca treats each customer’s cloud estate as an interconnected web of assets, prioritising risk based on the underlying security issue combined with environmental context, including its accessibility and potential damage to the business. Orca’s patent pending SideScanning technology, reads the cloud configuration and workloads’ runtime block storage out-of-band to detect vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, lateral movement risk, weak and leaked passwords, secret keys, unsecured PII, and more.
Orca Security has created the first cloud security solution that can meet these needs without agents or per asset integration, gaining full coverage within minutes.
Unlike competing tools that operate in silos, Orca treats the cloud as an interconnected web of assets, prioritising risk based on the severity of the underlying security issue combined with environmental context, including its accessibility and potential damage to the business.
The idea is to eliminate numerous unfiltered security alerts and to provide only a critical few, along with their precise path to remediation.
Orca Security plans to triple the size of its R&D team and to expand its sales team to nearly 30 people to meet anticipated global demand. Sales offices in the UK and Australia to serve the European and APAC markets are intended.
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