CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security vs Orca Security comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 23, 2023

We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security 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: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security was lauded for its strong adherence to security best practices. It particularly excels in endpoint protection and its ability to leverage machine learning and AI. Orca Security provides comprehensive cloud insights with its patented SideScanning feature. Users like how it prioritizes vulnerabilities and risks. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security could improve its Kubernetes and GCP support. Orca Security could improve intrusion detection and data center compatibility. Reviewers also want to improve integration with non-standard ticketing systems.
Service and Support: CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security users are generally content with the support team's assistance and promptness. Orca Security's customer service has been commended for being prompt, skilled, and attentive to customers' needs.
Ease of Deployment: The setup for CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security was deemed easy, but some users struggled with the Kubernetes implementation. Orca Security offers a quick and uncomplicated initial setup, requiring just a few minutes and no ongoing maintenance.
Pricing: Users consider the pricing of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security to be fair, but it may be pricier than on-premises alternatives. Some have suggested that Orca Security's price could be lower, but others say the cost is justified because of the visibility and security it offers.
ROI: Users have provided limited feedback about the return on investment for CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. Orca Security is a holistic security solution that results in significant cost savings. It offers immediate results and does not require much training.

Conclusion: Users praise its simple setup process, extensive visibility, comprehensive features, user-friendliness, and valuable insights. Orca Security excels in container security and offers a secure cloud-based solution. Users appreciate its ability to protect data and its positive impact on time and cost savings, allowing businesses to operate securely in the cloud and achieve their objectives.

To learn more, read our detailed CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security vs. Orca Security Report (Updated: May 2024).

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CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security vs. Orca Security

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Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category, the market share of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.1% and it increased by 47.4% compared to the previous year. The market share of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is 5.8% and it increased by 83.4% compared to the previous year. The market share of Orca Security is 8.4% and it decreased by 29.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Unique Categories:

Vulnerability Management

1.8%

Container Security

9.0%

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)

6.3%

Featured Reviews

Travis Curley

Information Security Engineer at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 1, 2023

Easy to configure with real-time detection and helpful support

There's the singularity marketplace, which they've expanded a bunch. However, there are some other APIs that I'd like to see. We'd like to be able to connect to them from a SIM perspective. The Automation tab is an add-on that doesn’t work properly. They provide a list of scripts that don’t work and I have asked support to assist but they won’t help. When running on various endpoints the script doesn’t work and if it does, it’s only a couple. There are a lot of useful scripts that would be beneficial to run forensics, event logs, and process lists running on the endpoint.

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Arunachalam S.

Technical Specialist at Brilyant IT Solutions

Apr 12, 2023

Lightweight agent and easy to use

Sometimes clients seek security solutions, and we sell those solutions as a partner from India. I take care of POCs and demos for CrowdStrike Falcon Falcon is a lightweight agent that works fully with the cloud, which is a major boost for security. It is fully cloud-based, so we don't need to…

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GuilhermeTeles

Cloud Security Contractor at TripAdvisor

Jan 8, 2024

Quick and easy setup and helps comply with various security frameworks and strengthens overall security posture

I mainly use it as a posture management tool to comply with security frameworks like CIS and NIST, strengthening my overall security posture The reporting and automated remediation capabilities are valuable to me. They're real game-changers. Maybe better customization options for security…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features of PingSafe are cloud misconfiguration, Kubernetes, and IaC scanning."

"The solution is a good alerting tool."

"PingSafe offers comprehensive security posture management."

"It's positively affected the communication between cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams."

"As a frequently audited company, we value PingSafe's compliance monitoring features. They give us a report with a compliance score for how well we meet certain regulatory standards, like HIPAA. We can show our compliance as a percentage. It's also a way to show that we are serious about security."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its storyline, which helps trace an event back to its source, like an email or someone clicking on a link."

"It is fairly simple. Anybody can use it."

"The UI is responsive and user-friendly."

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"The initial setup is easy ."

"It is fully cloud-based, so we don't need to invest in third-party agents repeatedly."

"The most valuable feature of Falcon Cloud Security is its comprehensive threat-hunting ability."

"Cloud security is one valuable feature. Spotlight is the other one. There is also vulnerability management and a couple of more features."

"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is its lightweight sensor, taking minimal space and not impacting server performance."

"Cloud security posture management (CSPM) is most valuable."

"CrowdStrike utilizes signatureless technology, eliminating the need for regular signature updates on endpoint systems."

"The RTR feature stands out as particularly valuable to me due to its capability to log into machines."

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"The initial setup is very easy."

"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 platform provides an agentless data collection facility that collects information directly from the cloud using APIs, with zero impact on performance."

"The reporting and automated remediation capabilities are valuable to me. They're real game-changers."

"There are so many valuable features that I could list, but one that I appreciate is the PCI DSS compliance report."

"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 most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use."

"Orca provides X-ray vision into everything within the cloud properties, whereas normally, this would require multiple tools."

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Cons

"When we request any changes, they must be reflected in the next update."

"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."

"Whenever I view the processes and the process aspect, it takes a long time to load."

"Sometimes the Storyline ID is a bit wacky."

"In terms of ease of use, initially, it is a bit confusing to navigate around, but once you get used to it, it becomes easier."

"The cost has the potential for improvement."

"We had a glitch in PingSafe where it fed us false positives in the past."

"While it is good, I think the solution's console could be improved."

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"There should be cloud storage scanning. We would like to have cloud storage vulnerability and threat management on any cloud storage."

"The log scale or Humio side of it where it collects the data and expands into the XDR world still needs time to develop in terms of the way it combines the data and metadata that flows into the platform. I know they're working on it."

"Incorporating threat intelligence into the system would be a valuable addition."

"The UI part needs to be improved."

"Customers would benefit it CrowdStrike adopted some of SentinelOne's technologies."

"The threat intelligence and user behavioral analysis could be more comprehensive."

"One area for improvement in Falcon Cloud Security is the support portal."

"The CrowdStrike partner portal documentation could be improved to provide proper instructions for integrating their products."

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"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."

"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."

"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."

"The presentation of the data in the dashboard is a little bit chaotic."

"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."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"As a partner, we receive a discount on the licenses."

"The cost for PingSafe is average when compared to other CSPM tools."

"Singularity Cloud Security by SentinelOne is cost-efficient."

"Their pricing appears to be based simply on the number of accounts we have, which is common for cloud-based products."

"Singularity Cloud Workload Security's pricing is good."

"We have an enterprise license. It is affordable. I'm not sure, but I think we pay 150,000 rupees per month."

"Pricing is based on modules, which was ideal for us."

"It was reasonable pricing for me."

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"Its price is moderate."

"I am not the one who handled the pricing. A different team worked on it, but it is pretty expensive."

"The pricing is reasonable, neither overly expensive nor excessively cheap, making it competitive compared to other market options."

"CrowdStrike Falcon is very expensive."

"The pricing is fair for what you get. I'd rate them a solid nine out of ten in terms of pricing."

"CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is pricy."

"We have a total of 25 licenses for this solution. The solution is on a pay-and-you-use model."

"The pricing depends on how many assets you have running in your cloud and how many environments you have. If you have a dev environment, test environment, and a production environment then it's really important that you have coverage for all of them."

"While it's competitive with Palo Alto Prisma, I think Orca's list price is very high. I would advise Orca to lower it because, at that price, I might consider alternatives like Wiz, which also offers agentless services."

"Orca Security charges are based on cloud workloads. So, it's based on workloads. If we look at one feature, it might be expensive."

"Orca Security is cheaper compared to other solutions in the same space."

"The most expensive solution is Palo Alto. They claim to be very robust. The next most expensive is Wiz, followed by Orca and all the rest."

"The price is a bit expensive for smaller organizations."

"Orca is very competitive when compared to the alternatives and is not the most expensive in the market, that's for sure."

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Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

13%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?

The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

I'm not aware of the exact pricing.

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

When I joined my organization, I saw that PingSafe was already implemented. I started to use the tool's alerting feat...

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What do you like most about CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?

It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?

You can't get a fixed price for these tools. If you subscribe to something and need to deploy it to another team, the...

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What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?

The threat intelligence and user behavioral analysis could be more comprehensive.

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What do you like most about Orca Security?

It's for protection. It's an agentless tool. We don't need to install anything at a customer's premises. We can just ...

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What needs improvement with Orca Security?

The company is managed by industry veterans. It's a cloud-based product. They handle misconfigurations and analyse yo...

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What is your primary use case for Orca Security?

We use the solution to show misconfiguration. Often, users lack knowledge about their assets' fingerprints and their ...

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Comparisons

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 30% of the time

Wiz vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 22% of the time

AWS GuardDuty vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 10% of the time

Sysdig Secure vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 4% of the time

Snyk vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 4% of the time

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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 18% of the time

AWS GuardDuty vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 14% of the time

Wiz vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 13% of the time

Qualys VMDR vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 6% of the time

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 5% of the time

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Wiz vs Orca Security

Compared 42% of the time

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs Orca Security

Compared 10% of the time

Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Orca Security

Compared 8% of the time

Tenable Vulnerability Management vs Orca Security

Compared 4% of the time

Qualys VMDR vs Orca Security

Compared 1% of the time

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Overview

Singularity Cloud Security is SentinelOne’s comprehensive, cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). It combines the best of agentless insights with AI-powered threat protection, to secure and protect your multi-cloud infrastructure, services, and containers from build time to runtime. SentinelOne’s CNAPP applies an attacker’s mindset to help security practitioners better prioritize their remediation tasks with evidence-backed Verified Exploit Paths™. The efficient and scalable runtime protection, proven over 5 years and trusted by many of the world’s leading cloud enterprises, harnesses local, autonomous AI engines to detect and thwart runtime threats in real-time. CNAPP data and workload telemetry is recorded to SentinelOne’s unified security lake, for easy access and investigation.

Singularity Cloud Security includes both agentless and AI-powered cloud security controls, which represent two halves of our strategy to keep public cloud and container environments safe. Radically reduce your cloud attack surface with Singularity Cloud Native Security, formerly PingSafe, with agentless insights and evidence-based prioritization; protect runtime compute and container with Singularity Cloud Workload Security, SentinelOne’s real-time CWPP, with AI-powered machine-speed blocking of threats.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is a platform of cloud security solutions aimed at protecting organizations from breaches while simplifying cloud security management. The unified platform combines several cloud security functionalities for comprehensive protection. Built on the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform, it leverages the powerful agent and technology used in CrowdStrike's renowned endpoint protection solutions, extending its capabilities seamlessly to cloud environments.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is designed to be a shield for the cloud infrastructure. One of its key strengths is its ability to monitor cloud workloads for potential breaches and attacks. It doesn't matter if you're running virtual machines, containers, or a combination of both across different cloud providers – Falcon Cloud Security offers visibility and protection. Additionally, it works tirelessly to pinpoint misconfigurations or vulnerabilities in your cloud setup, proactively stopping issues before they become full-blown security incidents. Compliance becomes easier too, as it can check if your deployments meet the requirements of various industry standards and regulations.

If you heavily utilize containers and Kubernetes, Falcon Cloud Security has you covered. It delves deep into container images and running containers to spot weaknesses and potential threats, helping you secure your containerized applications from the moment they're developed to when they're up and running. Finally, it tackles the often messy world of permissions in the cloud. Falcon Cloud Security analyzes identities and their attached permissions, ensuring that the principle of least privilege is followed and sensitive data isn't exposed due to overly broad access rights.

In essence, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security aims to simplify the complexities of cloud security by consolidating tools, providing a centralized view of your risks and threats, and delivering advanced protection that blends seamlessly with your development processes.

Based on the interviews we conducted with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security users, overall, the sentiment is positive. Users praise the solution's efficacy in detecting and preventing threats, its ease of use, scalability, stability, and integration with existing systems. There were also mentions of areas for improvement, such as the pricing, the user interface, and customer support.

Orca Security is the pioneer of agentless cloud security that is trusted by hundreds of enterprises globally. Orca makes cloud security possible for enterprises moving to and scaling in the cloud with its patented SideScanning™ technology and Unified Data Model. The Orca Cloud Security Platform delivers the world's most comprehensive coverage and visibility of risks across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes.

At Orca Security, we’re on a mission to make it fast, easy, and cost effective for organizations to address critical cloud security issues so they can operate in the cloud with confidence.

Key Platform Features:

Agentless: Complete, centralized coverage of the entire cloud estate, without the need for installing and configuring agents or layering together multiple siloed tools. Full visibility of cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, workload protection, malware scanning, image scanning, file integrity monitoring and more.
Asset Inventory: Get a complete inventory of all your public cloud assets, including detailed information on installed OSes, software, and applications, as well as data and network assets such as storage buckets, Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), and Security Groups.

Attack Path Analysis: Visualize attack vectors to critical assets or crown jewels. See which assets are susceptible to lateral movement, assume roles, privilege escalation, and more.

Risk Prioritization: Prioritize the 1% of risks that matter the most, based on impact scores. Secure the vulnerabilities and misconfigured targets (critical assets) and eliminate the potential risks residing on the attack paths to those targets.
Cloud Threat Detection: Monitor for malicious activity within your entire cloud estate. Be aware of detected threats, user behavior anomalies and more.

Breach Forensics: Log every change and all activity into a central repository for investigation procedures to confirm or deny entry and compromises within the cloud estate.
Cloud To Dev (Shift Left): Orca’s built-in shift left capabilities enables DevOps to focus more security attention earlier in the CI/CD pipelines. Security teams are able to trace a production risk (misconfiguration or vulnerability) directly to the original source code repository from which it came, even down to the exact line of code that is at the root of the identified risk.
Compliance: Choose from over 60 preconfigured compliance frameworks, cloud security best practices, CIS Benchmarks, or design and build your own compliance framework for fast and continuous reporting.
Security Score: The Orca Security Score is found on Orca’s Risk Dashboard and is updated daily. The overall score is calculated based on performance in the following five categories - Suspicious Activity, IAM, Data at Risk, Vulnerable Assets, and Responsiveness. Since the scores are percentage based and not raw numbers, you can objectively make comparisons to other organizations within your industry or business units of different sizes. In addition to reporting to senior management, the Orca Security Score can help with internal self-monitoring, as a way of measuring risk mitigation efforts, to know where to focus efforts, and track progress.

Orca Security Benefits

Consolidate technologies to reduce costs and complexity:

“The more I can get out of this one solution, the better. I see Orca as the tool where we get all cloud-related security data.” - Joshua Scott, Head of Security and IT | Postman

Avoid costly breaches:

"I look at proactive asset discovery, configuration management, and vulnerability management as being able to find a vulnerability before the bad guys do and being able to deal with it before something exploits it. This is what Orca does for us." - Doug Graham, CSO & CPO | Lionbridge

Increase team productivity and efficiency by focusing on high-value activities and solving the 1% of risks that matter most:

"Orca is unique in that it locates vulnerabilities with precision and delivers tangible, actionable results – without having to sift through all the noise." - Aaron Brown, Senior Cloud Security Engineer | Sisense

Quick Time-to-Value with Immediate ROI:

"Orca told us we could have some visibility within 5 or 10 minutes, and I thought, ‘There’s no way.’ Well, I was wrong. They really did it." - Thomas Hill, CISO | Live Oak Bank

Reduce MTTR and remove operational friction:

“We can’t ask developers things like ‘Did you think about security? When you start a new VM on AWS, can you please let me know so I’m able to scan it? Can you please deploy an agent on that machine for me?’ We need a better way to work. Orca provides that better way by eliminating organizational friction.” - Erwin Geirnaert, Cloud Security Architect | NG Data

Sample Customers

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BeyondTrust, Postman, Digital Turbine, Solarisbank, Lemonade, C6 Bank, Docebo, Vercel, and Vivino

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