We performed a comparison between Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and Orca Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation provides advanced monitoring capabilities, automated policy writing, and visibility into application communication. Orca Security is a cloud-based solution that excels at risk prioritization container security. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation could improve by supporting a wider range of operating systems. There is a need for better data security and improved effectiveness in on-premise environments. Orca Security can offer better intrusion detection, data center compatibility, and integration with non-standard ticketing systems.
Service and Support: Some users were happy with the Illumio team's quick responses and round-the-clock help. However, some said answers were unhelpful and reported slow responses. Orca Security support earned high marks for their promptness, expertise, and attentiveness to customer needs. They also valued the team's commitment to enhancing their product and the convenience of a shared Slack channel for speedy issue resolution.
Ease of Deployment: Deploying Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation requires a significant amount of time, possibly up to six months, due to the complexity of applications and tasks involved. On the other hand, Orca Security offers a fast and effortless setup process that can be completed within a few minutes, eliminating the need for ongoing maintenance or agent installation.
Pricing: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation offers one or three-year licenses, and some users say it is expensive. Orca Security's license includes all the necessary components out of the box without additional fees.
ROI: Our reviewers haven't given any feedback on Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation's ROI. Users say Orca Security has demonstrated a substantial ROI by improving security coverage and saving costs.
Comparison Results: Orca Security is favored over Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation. Users appreciate Orca's straightforward setup process, extensive visibility, and cost-effectiveness. Our users also like Orca's all-inclusive pricing model.
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"The most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"The reporting and automated remediation capabilities are valuable to me. They're real game-changers."
"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."
"Another valuable feature with Orca, something that's not talked about enough, is its ability to rank your gaps and your tasks... You can get visibility with agents and there are a lot of ways to do that. But the ranking and the context across the entire environment, that is what is unique about Orca."
"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."
"Orca's dashboard is excellent. My team needs to be able to focus on specific areas for improvement in our cloud environment. And most recently, we've started to get good use out of sonar, the search capabilities, and the alert creation."
"Orca's SideScanning is the biggest feature. It's the 'wow' factor... With Orca's SideScanning, they just need permissions for your account and that makes it so simple."
"Orca's platform provides an agentless data collection facility that collects information directly from the cloud using APIs, with zero impact on performance."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"It's not all clouds that they are currently onboarded with. For instance, they are not yet with public cloud and many other private clouds."
"Another improvement would be that, in addition to focusing on endpoint compliance, they would focus on general compliance."
"There were a couple of times when Orca was down when I was trying to access it. I work strange hours because all of my team is in the UK right now. It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday and I was trying to log in but it wasn't working. But relative to my other security tools, Orca is definitely the most stable that I've seen."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboards more elaborative and more descriptive."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see better customization options for security frameworks and better integration with reporting tools like Power BI or Grafana dashboards."
Illumio is ranked 14th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 8 reviews while Orca Security is ranked 12th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 15 reviews. Illumio is rated 8.0, while Orca Security is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, whereas Orca Security is most compared with Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Tenable Vulnerability Management and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Illumio vs. Orca Security report.
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