We performed a comparison between AWS Security Hub 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: Orca Security stands out in its ability to manage container posture and cloud security posture through its SideScanning and ranking gaps features, while AWS Security Hub is appreciated for its strong integration capabilities and real-time alert system. Orca Security needs to expand their coverage and work better with third-party vendors, while also offering security checks on a code level. AWS Security Hub, on the other hand, should improve their user interface, add more integration options, and become multi-cloud compatible.
Service and Support: Orca Security's customer service is exceptional, with a technical support team that is both responsive and competent. They have a strong focus on customer success and are willing to take feedback in order to improve their service. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub's support is good and prompt but lacks the same customer-centric approach as Orca Security.
Ease of Deployment: Orca Security's initial setup is hassle-free, while AWS Security Hub's setup is generally straightforward but may require some additional effort. AWS Security Hub comes pre-enabled on AWS, but users still need to set up policies.
Pricing: Orca Security's setup cost is straightforward and includes standard licensing fees without additional charges for networking or computing. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub's pricing is reasonable, although it may be unclear for those outside of the central team. Orca's pricing model is aligned with market demand, and they offer discounts. However, smaller organizations may find it expensive.
ROI: It is able to replace several other solutions, leading to significant cost savings. Additionally, it offers a comprehensive view of the environment and does not require extensive IT knowledge. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub only offers a positive user experience.
Comparison Results: Orca Security offers a non-intrusive approach with a comprehensive suite of tools for vulnerability management and attack detection, providing excellent visibility into container posture and cloud security posture management. In addition, despite AWS Security Hub's integration capabilities, it lacks the same level of comprehensive tools and ease of use as Orca Security.
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to manage...It is a scalable solution."
"AWS Security Hub provides comprehensive alerts about potential compliance issues with CIS standards. The integration with third-party tools is another excellent feature. All our workloads are on AWS."
"It's a security posture management tool from AWS. Basically, it identifies misconfigurations, similar to Trusted Advisor but on a larger scale."
"Currently, our organization utilizes AWS for various purposes, including SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and hosting applications in the cloud. We develop our applications and use AWS services as a platform for basic functions and secondary development needs. Additionally, we rely on PaaS for accounting services. Approximately, 50% of our applications are hosted in the cloud environment, making it a significant part of our current setup."
"Finding out if your infrastructure is secure is a valuable feature."
"I like that AWS Security Hub currently has several good features, around four or five. The technical support for AWS Security Hub is also responsive."
"I find all of the features to be highly valuable."
"Cloudposse is a valuable feature as it guarantees my security."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"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 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."
"From an improvement perspective, there is a need to add more compliance since, right now, AWS Security Hub only provides four to five compliances to control the tool."
"Whenever my team gets some alarms from the central team, my team needs to initiate whether it's a real or false trigger. The central team needs to keep adjusting to the parameters or at least the concerned IPs, whether it's really from the company's pool of IPs, so the trigger process can be improved. In the next release of AWS Security Hub, I'd like a better dashboard that could result in better alert visibility."
"One aspect that could be improved in the solution is its adaptability to different markets and geopolitical restrictions. In certain regions like Thailand, specific services from certain countries or providers, such as AWS or Azure, might be limited or blocked. It also needs improvement in would require configuring the solution more adaptable to AWS infrastructure and function."
"AWS Security Hub should improve the time it takes to update. It takes a long period of time when updating. It can take 24 hours sometimes to update. Additionally, when integrating this solution with more security tools, takes time."
"We need more granular-level customizations to enable or disable the rules in AWS Security Hub."
"The solution lacks self-sufficiency."
"The solution should be easier to learn and use"
"The support must be quicker."
"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."
"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 interface can be a bit cranky and sometimes takes a lot of time to load."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
AWS Security Hub is ranked 13th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 17 reviews while Orca Security is ranked 8th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 15 reviews. AWS Security Hub is rated 7.6, while Orca Security is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of AWS Security Hub writes "A centralized dashboard that enables efficient monitoring and management of possible security issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". AWS Security Hub is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and IBM Security QRadar, whereas Orca Security is most compared with Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Tenable Cloud Security. See our AWS Security Hub vs. Orca Security report.
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