We performed a comparison between Orca Security and Tenable.sc based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Tenable.sc stands out for its risk-based approach, advanced scanning, and asset discovery, while Orca Security shines in cloud visibility, container security, and non-intrusive vulnerability management. Both platforms have user-friendly dashboards, but Tenable.sc has the advantage in terms of compliance and vulnerability scans. Tenable.sc has areas for improvement in terms of penetration testing, pricing, ticketing, GUI, reporting, vendor training, and accuracy. On the other hand, Orca Security could improve their offerings in terms of host intrusion detection, risk assessment in real-time, coverage expansion, education, UI simplification, and alert options.
Service and Support: Tenable.sc's customer service has varying opinions, while Orca Security's support is highly regarded for being responsive and customer-focused.
Ease of Deployment: Tenable.sc takes up to three weeks for on-prem deployment, but the initial setup is generally easy. On the other hand, Orca Security's setup is incredibly easy and can be completed in a matter of hours or even minutes, making it highly rated and exceeding expectations. Additionally, there are no agents to install with Orca Security.
Pricing: Tenable.sc charges based on IP addresses and has additional costs for advanced support, while Orca Security includes standard licensing fees with no added costs. Orca's pricing model is flexible and aligned with market demand, with potential discounts available. Some find Tenable's pricing to be expensive compared to competitors. Orca may be expensive for smaller organizations, but is recommended for those managing cloud infrastructure.
ROI: Tenable.sc can save on manpower costs and offers a positive ROI. Orca Security can replace multiple solutions and save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Additionally, Orca Security is simpler to use and provides a comprehensive view of the environment.
Comparison Results: Tenable.sc is the better choice when compared to Orca Security, as per the user reviews. It has comprehensive features, accurate vulnerability detection, and a risk-based approach. Although Orca Security is praised for its ease of use and agentless approach, Tenable.sc's pricing and licensing are more reasonable and affordable, especially for larger organizations.
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"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 reporting and automated remediation capabilities are valuable to me. They're real game-changers."
"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 Security has updated its interface, making it more user-friendly. I find it particularly useful as it allows me to easily navigate the dashboard and prioritize actions based on severity and criticality."
"Orca provides X-ray vision into everything within the cloud properties, whereas normally, this would require multiple tools."
"The visibility Orca provides into my environment is at the highest level... When I dropped them into the environment, from the very get-go I had more insight into the risks in my environment than I had had during the entire two and a half years I had been here."
"The most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"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."
"The solution is one of the most, if not the most, stable product available."
"The tool's dashboard and reporting capabilities match our company's needs since we are able to modify the basic view to create a new dashboard, and it works out very well for our needs."
"The feature we've liked most recently was being able to take the YARA rules from FireEye and put them into Tenable's scan for the most recent SolarWinds exploit. That was really useful."
"Tenable.sc's best features are the availability model, accident management, and scoring."
"The scans are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"One of the most valuable features is their distributed scan model for allotting engines to work together as a pool and handle multiple scans at once, across multiple environments. Automatic scanning distribution is a distinguishing feature of their toolset."
"The scanning part, the agent part – that's the valuable aspect."
"I think that this is a good solution for evaluating vulnerability in the network."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboards more elaborative and more descriptive."
"I would like to see better customization options for security frameworks and better integration with reporting tools like Power BI or Grafana dashboards."
"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."
"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."
"Another improvement would be that, in addition to focusing on endpoint compliance, they would focus on general compliance."
"The interface can be a bit cranky and sometimes takes a lot of time to load."
"We are PCI DSS compliant, so we need to scan our environment externally with tools vetted by the PCI DSS organization. Orca doesn't scan the environment externally. It only scans what's currently in the cloud."
"The presentation of the data in the dashboard is a little bit chaotic."
"Tenable's reporting engine needs improvement. It needs to be more efficient and add more features."
"I think the vendor training provided for Tenable.sc could be a lower price. It's quite expensive for the training."
"The integration is very good, although it still needs to improve."
"Certain aspects require manual effort, such as exporting and analyzing data for our dashboards. The built-in components of the Tenable solution are somewhat clumsy that require external tools. So, this is an area of improvement."
"We experienced some difficulties with the solution’s support."
"The product could be user-friendly, and they could enhance the web application's security features."
"Current web page needs improvement, slows down processes."
"Tenable has some problems with agents going offline during scanning and lag between agents and the security center."
Orca Security is ranked 8th in Vulnerability Management with 15 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Orca Security is rated 9.4, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". Orca Security is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Tenable Vulnerability Management, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and AWS Security Hub, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM and Forescout Platform. See our Orca Security vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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