We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management 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 is strong in container security and has an easy-to-use compliance dashboard. Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management provides comprehensive 360 security and detailed reports and recommendations for errors. Orca Security could increase its coverage and provide code-level security checks, while also improving its collaboration with third-party vendors. Meanwhile, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management should enhance its reporting options, lower its price, and enhance its ability to investigate security events.
Service and Support: Orca Security's customer service receives positive feedback for their efficient and knowledgeable technical support staff, fast response times, and openness to receive feedback. In comparison, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has a mixed reputation, with some satisfied customers and others expressing dissatisfaction with technical support.
Ease of Deployment: Orca Security's initial setup is user-friendly, agentless, efficient, and requires minimal maintenance compared to Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management. While Check Point's setup is generally simple, it may require professional deployment and team collaboration.
Pricing: Orca Security has a straightforward and reasonable pricing system for setup costs, which includes all standard licensing fees and does not require any additional expenses for networking or computing. In comparison, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has a variable pricing and licensing system that is viewed differently by different users. While some consider the setup cost to be manageable and simple, others find it costly. CloudGuard's licensing model is based on the cloud infrastructure's size, which is seen by some as rigid and expensive.
ROI: Orca Security saves users money by replacing multiple solutions and offering a deep view into the environment with minimal IT knowledge required. On the other hand, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is priced higher but offers security and compliance solutions that can result in a 35% ROI growth rate.
Comparison Results: Orca Security is a preferred option over Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management due to its agentless approach, user-friendly interface, and competitive pricing. Its SideScanning feature is particularly impressive, providing excellent visibility into cloud environments. On the other hand, Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management has received mixed reviews regarding its customer service and support, and its pricing is considered expensive by some users.
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"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 vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"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."
"The ability to integrate it with Microsoft Azure Sentinel allows us to validate the logs in an even more complex and meaningful way."
"The product allows us to enhance the security of the implementations we have."
"It has great scalability."
"Compliance is becoming an important tool for us as well."
"The posture management and remediation features are the most valuable. We use GSL Builder to build custom rules in alignment with our organization's policies. CloudGuard has canned rules using multiple standard frameworks, but we also have additional rules."
"Gives us centralized firewall management for both Windows and Linux distros. Also provides a clear view of the security configurations and connections across environments (DMZ, external and internal networks)."
"The product enables us to check the information that goes out of the company."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is the training."
"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 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'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."
"Orca's platform provides an agentless data collection facility that collects information directly from the cloud using APIs, with zero impact on performance."
"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."
"There are so many valuable features that I could list, but one that I appreciate is the PCI DSS compliance report."
"The reporting and automated remediation capabilities are valuable to me. They're real game-changers."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"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 only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"Reporting should have more options."
"The security of Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management could improve. There are always new security issues coming out."
"The solution could be improved with a greater analysis of its Microsoft Security score."
"The Check Point solution is somewhat expensive."
"The costs are high."
"The guidelines to implement or to link with the clouds are not complete."
"It should capture more information in metadata including communication detail. Also, Internal IP addresses should not be tracked as this might be having some compliance issues."
"In general, for the product to be successful, they need to improve security, and configuration detection."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboards more elaborative and more descriptive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The presentation of the data in the dashboard is a little bit chaotic."
"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."
"I would like to see better customization options for security frameworks and better integration with reporting tools like Power BI or Grafana dashboards."
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 5th in Vulnerability Management with 60 reviews while Orca Security is ranked 7th in Vulnerability Management with 14 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6, while Orca Security is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Qualys VMDR and Trend Vision One - Cloud Security, whereas Orca Security is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Tenable Vulnerability Management, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and Lacework. See our Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs. Orca Security report.
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