We performed a comparison between Aqua Security Platform 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: Aqua Security Platform users said they liked its vulnerability checks, malware detection, and on-demand patching. Orca Security is a cloud-based solution that stands out for its deep visibility, SideScanning feature, and vulnerability ranking. Aqua Security Platform could improve log forwarding and reporting. Users also complained about its high resource consumption. Orca Security could be better at intrusion detection and real-time risk assessment. Other pain points include compatibility with data centers and integration with non-standard ticketing systems.
Service and Support: Users have reported that Aqua Security Platform's customer service is generally responsive and helpful, although there were instances where users had to resolve issues independently. Orca Security's customer service has received positive feedback for being competent and attentive to customer needs. One user noted that the CEO personally helped them resolve a problem.
Ease of Deployment: The setup for Aqua Security Platform can be complex and time-consuming, and customers may need specialized personnel for maintenance. By contrast, Orca Security offers a quick and straightforward setup that only takes a few minutes.
Pricing: Users considered Aqua Security Platform to be moderately priced compared to other options, while opinions on Orca Security's pricing are mixed. Users say it is expensive, but many point out that it's a great value in terms of visibility and security.
ROI: Our users have left no feedback on Aqua Security Platform's ROI. Orca Security users report cost and time savings with this comprehensive solution.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Orca Security over Aqua Security Platform. Users appreciate the deep visibility provides and its holistic approach to security. Orca stands out for its comprehensive container security and highly responsive customer service. Reviewers also like the effortless setup and user-friendly interface. Although some users find the price tag steep, they can't deny that Orca provides a significant ROI by saving users money and time.
"It used to guide me about an alert. There is something called an alert guide. I used to click on the alert guide, and I could read everything. I could read about the alert and how to resolve it. I used to love that feature."
"The most valuable feature of PingSafe is its integration with most of our technology stack, specifically all of our cloud platforms and ticketing software."
"The visibility PingSafe provides into the Cloud environment is a valuable feature."
"It is fairly simple. Anybody can use it."
"The solution helped free other staff to work on other projects or other tasks. We basically just had to do a bunch of upfront configuring. With it, we do not have to spend as much time in the console."
"It is scalable, stable, and can detect any threat on a machine. It uses artificial intelligence and can lock down any virus."
"We liked the search bar in PingSafe. It is a global search. We were able to get some insights from there."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to detect vulnerabilities inside AWS resources and its ability to rescan after a specific duration set by the administrator."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"The most valuable feature of Aqua Security is the scanner."
"The CSPM product is great at securing our cloud accounts and I really like the runtime protection for containers and functions too."
"Support is very helpful."
"The most helpful feature of Aqua Security is Drift Prevention, which is a feature that allows images to be immutable. In addition, one of the main reasons we went with Aqua Security is because it provides strong protection when it comes to runtime security."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and manage."
"The DTA, which stands for Dynamic Threat Analysis, allows me to analyze Docker images in a sandbox environment before deployment, helping me anticipate risks."
"Customers find it invaluable to have the ability to check for vulnerabilities in an image before deployment, similar to a sandbox environment."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"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."
"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 provides X-ray vision into everything within the cloud properties, whereas normally, this would require multiple tools."
"The most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"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."
"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 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."
"Their search feature could be better."
"We wanted it to provide us with something like Claroty Hub in AWS for lateral movement. For example, if an EC2 instance or a virtual machine is compromised in a public subnet based on a particular vulnerability, such as Log4j, we want it to not be able to reach some of our databases. This kind of feature is not supported in PingSafe."
"While PingSafe offers real-time response, there is room for improvement in alert accuracy."
"While it is good, I think the solution's console could be improved."
"One of our use cases was setting up a firewall for our endpoints, specifically for our remote users... We were hoping to utilize SentinelOne's firewall capabilities, but there were limitations on how many URLs we could implement. Because of those limitations on the number of URLs, we weren't able to utilize that feature in the way we had hoped to."
"When you find a vulnerability and resolve it, the same issue will not occur again. I want PingSafe to block the same vulnerability from appearing again. I want something like a playbook where the steps that we take to resolve an issue are repeated when that issue happens again."
"There is a bit of a learning curve for new users."
"With Cloud Native Security, we can't selectively enable or disable alerts based on our specific use case."
"Aqua Security could improve the forwarding of logging into Splunk and into other tools, it should be easier."
"In the next release, Aqua Security should add the ability to automatically send reports to customers."
"It's a bit hard to use the user roles. That was a bit confusing."
"I would like Aqua Security to look into is the development of a web security portal."
"Sometimes I got stressed with the UI."
"The user interface could be improved, especially in terms of organization and clarity."
"Since we are working from home, we would like to have the proper training for Aqua."
"We would like to see an improvement in the overview visibility that this solution offers."
"The interface can be a bit cranky and sometimes takes a lot of time to load."
"Another improvement would be that, in addition to focusing on endpoint compliance, they would focus on general compliance."
"I would be happy if they offered more automatic remediation options. They're working on that, but the more the better. For example, if they want you to harden a server, they would offer a hardening script that would be more aware of what's going on."
"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."
"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."
"They can expand a little bit in anti-malware detection. While we have pretty good confidence that it's going to detect some of the static malware, some of the detections are heuristics. There could be a growth in the library from where they're pulling their information, but we don't get a lot of those alerts based on the design of our products. In general, that might be an area that needs to be filled since they offer it as a service within it."
"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."
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Aqua Cloud Security Platform is ranked 7th in Container Security with 16 reviews while Orca Security is ranked 12th in Container Security with 15 reviews. Aqua Cloud Security Platform is rated 8.0, while Orca Security is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Aqua Cloud Security Platform writes "Reliable with good container scanning and a straightforward setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". Aqua Cloud Security Platform is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, Snyk, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and Qualys VMDR, 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 Aqua Cloud Security Platform vs. Orca Security report.
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