We performed a comparison between Orca Security and AWS GuardDuty based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Orca Security offers comprehensive cloud visibility and simplified insights through its patented agentless SideScanning technology. Users like its container security, compliance dashboard, and non-intrusive vulnerability management. AWS GuardDuty stands out for its single pane of glass data collection and the ability to monitor AWS accounts at no additional cost. Orca Security could enhance its intrusion detection, data center compatibility, and integration with non-standard ticketing systems. AWS GuardDuty would benefit from a mobile version and stronger dashboard analytics.
Service and Support: Users praised Orca Security's customer service for their prompt assistance and proactive approach to meeting customer requirements. Users value the team's commitment to enhancing their product. Reviewers also spoke highly of AWS technical support, but some users reported occasional delays when reaching out via phone.
Ease of Deployment: The initial setup of Orca Security is quick and uncomplicated, requiring minimal effort and no ongoing maintenance. AWS GuardDuty is also relatively simple and efficient to set up, although it may vary in complexity based on the architecture and integrations involved.
Pricing: Some Orca Security users find it expensive compared to alternatives like Wiz. At the same time, many think the cost is justified due to the level of visibility and security it offers. AWS GuardDuty offers a competitive pay-go license without any extra charges.
ROI: Orca Security offers an all-inclusive security solution that saves users money and allows them to consolidate tools. It delivers instant results, and minimal training is required. Additionally, Orca Security constantly introduces new features without additional charges. In contrast, AWS GuardDuty enhances an organization's overall security posture, resulting in improved customer trust and potential business prospects.
Comparison Results: Orca Security is favored over AWS GuardDuty. Users appreciate the visibility Orca Security offers and find it easy to gain insight into their environment. Orca Security effectively ranks vulnerabilities and risks and excels in container security. Users complained about AWS GuardDuty's lack of dashboard analytics and mobile app.
"The real-time detection and response capabilities overall are great."
"My favorite feature is Storyline."
"I did a lot of research before signing up and doing the demo. They have a good reputation as far as catching threats early on."
"We use the infrastructure as code scanning, which is good."
"I like CSPM the most. It captures a lot of alerts within a short period of time. When an alert gets triggered on the cloud, it throws an alert within half an hour, which is very reasonable. It is a plus point for us."
"We really appreciate the Slack integration. When we have an incident, we get an instant notification. We also use Joe Sandbox, which Singularity can integrate with, so we can verify if a threat is legitimate."
"It is advantageous in terms of time-saving and cost reduction."
"Cloud Native Security's most valuable features include cloud misconfiguration detection and remediation, compliance monitoring, a robust authentication security engine, and cloud threat detection and response capabilities."
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"Since our environment is cloud based and accessible from the internet, we like the ability to check where the user has logged in from and what kind of API calls that user is doing."
"Deployment is great, and we didn't face any big challenges."
"One of the advantages of cloud services is the ability to use them on demand. There's minimal installation involved; you can check the latest offerings and make new deployments while dismantling the previous ones. This approach keeps you ahead of potential services, showcasing the agility of AWS."
"The way it monitors accounts is definitely a very important feature."
"AWS GuardDuty helps by providing continuous threat detection and signaling potential threats. Its most valuable feature is continuous monitoring. The tool's integration with other AWS services has improved security. It provides continuous monitoring and intelligent threat detection, quickly signaling any issues. I would rate this improvement a seven out of ten."
"What we found most valuable in Amazon GuardDuty is its threat detection feature, especially because we were monitoring a huge number of AWS accounts, so we needed a solution that would monitor for any kind of malicious activity. The monitoring aspect of the solution was great because it gave us timely notifications if and when anything happened, and Amazon GuardDuty helped keep us on our toes to make sure we took action right away."
"The correlation back end is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"It's for protection. It's an agentless tool. We don't need to install anything at a customer's premises. We can just scan the entire assets in the cloud."
"Orca Security has patented technologies. It's an agentless solution, so you don't need to install an agent. Instead, it contacts your account provider and fetches metadata, eliminating the need for snapshots or reserved space to copy client infrastructure."
"Orca gives you great visibility into your assets. It shows you the issues and the things that you need to attend to first, by prioritizing things. You can see a lot of information that is not always visible, even to DevOps, to help you know about the machines and their status. It's very easy to see everything in a single dashboard. That makes it a very useful tool."
"Orca provides X-ray vision into everything within the cloud properties, whereas normally, this would require multiple tools."
"With its Cloud Security Posture Management capability, we have the ability to read across all of our cloud-based environments, which includes AWS and Azure. We have visibility into those environments. Seeing all vulnerabilities and configurations is really powerful for us, but ultimately, the ability to use the API to query across the fleet to understand what is the current state, what is the patch level, which ones are potentially exposed for a new CVE that just came out is even more valuable. It allows us to gather really specific intelligence through simple queries."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The vulnerability management does not require network scanning or agent technology, so I don't need to modify any of my products in order to do vulnerability assessments."
"It would be really helpful if the solution improves its agent deployment process."
"In addition to our telecom and Slack channels, it would be helpful to receive Cloud Native Security security notifications in Microsoft Teams."
"Whenever I view the processes and the process aspect, it takes a long time to load."
"While it is good, I think the solution's console could be improved."
"They need more experienced support personnel."
"We are getting reports only in a predefined form. I would like to have customized reports so that I can see how many issues are open or closed today or in two weeks."
"We are experiencing problems with Cloud Native Security reporting."
"The Automation tab is an add-on that doesn’t work properly. They provide a list of scripts that don’t work and I have asked support to assist but they won’t help. When running on various endpoints the script doesn’t work and if it does, it’s only a couple. There are a lot of useful scripts that would be beneficial to run forensics, event logs, and process lists running on the endpoint."
"I work in a bank, and it would be good if AWS GuardDuty could be integrated with other monitoring and detection tools we use."
"Improvement-wise, Amazon GuardDuty should have an overall dashboard analytics function so we could see what's in the current environment, and then in addition to that, provide best practices and recommendations, particularly to provide some type of observability, and then figure out the login side of it, based on our current environment, in terms of what we're not monitoring and what we should monitor. The solution should also give us a sample code configuration to implement that added feature or feature request. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon GuardDuty are more security analytics, reporting, and monitoring. They should provide recommendations and additional options that answer questions such as "Hey, what can we see in our environment?", "What should we implement within the environment?", What's recommended?" We know that cost will always be associated with that, but Amazon GuardDuty should show us the increased costs or decreased costs if we implement it or don't implement it, and that would be a good feature request, particularly with all products within AWS, just for cloud products in general because there are times features are implemented, but once they're deployed, they don't tell you about costs that would be generated along with those features. After features are deployed, there should a summary of the costs that would be generated, and projected based on current usage, so they would give us the option to figure out how long we're going to use those features and the option to keep those on or turn those off. If more services were like that, a lot more people would use those on the cloud."
"It is evolving, and at the moment, I will just need it on a larger scale. Then, it will satisfy my demand, initially."
"One improvement I would suggest for AWS GuardDuty is the ability to assign findings to specific users or groups, facilitating better communication and follow-up actions."
"Because it's a threat detection service, they need to keep up with the various threat factors because new threat factors and attack factors come up all the time."
"AWS GuardDuty sometimes shows false positives and should have better detection accuracy."
"It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities."
"For me, I would say just the presentation of findings, like the dashboards and other stuff, could be improved a bit."
"I would like to see an option to do security checks on a code level. This is possible because they have access to all of the code running in the cloud provider, and combining their site-scanning solution with that would be a nice add-on."
"The presentation of the data in the dashboard is a little bit chaotic."
"I would like to see better customization options for security frameworks and better integration with reporting tools like Power BI or Grafana dashboards."
"I think Orca could give me more alerts. It could give me a dashboard with all the specific types of alerts I want to see for the day. It should just be one click."
"In the future, I'd like to see Orca work better with third-party vendors. Specifically, being able to provide sanitized results from third parties."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboards more elaborative and more descriptive."
"The main drawback in an agentless approach is that if the solution detects a virus or malware in the environment, we need to manually remove it. But from my experience with other production environments, it's not straightforward to install agents in the hope they will automatically remediate viruses, even from production environments... Ultimately, the ability to auto-remediate is something that I would like to see."
"As with all software, the user interface can always be made simpler to use. It would be helpful for people with very little knowledge, like somebody sitting behind the SOC, to allow them to be able to drill down into things a little bit easier than it is currently."
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AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 20 reviews while Orca Security is ranked 12th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 15 reviews. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.2, while Orca Security is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of AWS GuardDuty writes "A stellar threat-detection service that has helped bolster security against malicious threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, whereas Orca Security is most compared with Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and XM Cyber. See our AWS GuardDuty vs. Orca Security report.
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