We performed a comparison between Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation 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: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation provides advanced monitoring capabilities, automated policy writing, and visibility into application communication. Orca Security is a cloud-based solution that excels at risk prioritization container security. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation could improve by supporting a wider range of operating systems. There is a need for better data security and improved effectiveness in on-premise environments. Orca Security can offer better intrusion detection, data center compatibility, and integration with non-standard ticketing systems.
Service and Support: Some users were happy with the Illumio team's quick responses and round-the-clock help. However, some said answers were unhelpful and reported slow responses. Orca Security support earned high marks for their promptness, expertise, and attentiveness to customer needs. They also valued the team's commitment to enhancing their product and the convenience of a shared Slack channel for speedy issue resolution.
Ease of Deployment: Deploying Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation requires a significant amount of time, possibly up to six months, due to the complexity of applications and tasks involved. On the other hand, Orca Security offers a fast and effortless setup process that can be completed within a few minutes, eliminating the need for ongoing maintenance or agent installation.
Pricing: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation offers one or three-year licenses, and some users say it is expensive. Orca Security's license includes all the necessary components out of the box without additional fees.
ROI: Our reviewers haven't given any feedback on Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation's ROI. Users say Orca Security has demonstrated a substantial ROI by improving security coverage and saving costs.
Comparison Results: Orca Security is favored over Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation. Users appreciate Orca's straightforward setup process, extensive visibility, and cost-effectiveness. Our users also like Orca's all-inclusive pricing model.
"The UI is responsive and user-friendly."
"PingSafe's graph explorer is a valuable tool that lets us visualize all connected services."
"Cloud Native Security helps us discover vulnerabilities in a cloud environment like open ports that allow people to attack our environment. If someone unintentionally opens a port, we are exposed. Cloud Native Security alerts us so we can remediate the problem. We can also automate it so that Cloud Native Security will fix it."
"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."
"All the features we use are equal and get the job done."
"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."
"It's positively affected the communication between cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams."
"Cloud Native Security's most valuable features include cloud misconfiguration detection and remediation, compliance monitoring, a robust authentication security engine, and cloud threat detection and response capabilities."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"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 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."
"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 most valuable feature of Orca Security is the automated scanning tool, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"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."
"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."
"Orca provides X-ray vision into everything within the cloud properties, whereas normally, this would require multiple tools."
"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."
"Whenever I view the processes and the process aspect, it takes a long time to load."
"The main area for improvement I want to see is for the platform to become less resource-intensive. Right now, it can slow down processes on the machine, and it would be a massive improvement if it were more lightweight than it currently is."
"I'd like to see better onboarding documentation."
"The categorization of the results from the vulnerability assessment could be improved."
"With Cloud Native Security, we can't selectively enable or disable alerts based on our specific use case."
"If I had to pick a complaint, it would be the way the hosts are listed in the tool. You have different columns separated by endpoint name, Cloud Account, and Cloud Instances ID. I wish there was something where we could change the endpoint name and not use just the IP address. We would like to have custom names or our own names for the instances. If I had a complaint, that would be it, but so far, it meets all the needs that we have."
"While it is good, I think the solution's console could be improved."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboards more elaborative and more descriptive."
"In the future, I'd like to see Orca work better with third-party vendors. Specifically, being able to provide sanitized results from third parties."
"I would like to see better customization options for security frameworks and better integration with reporting tools like Power BI or Grafana dashboards."
"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."
"The interface can be a bit cranky and sometimes takes a lot of time to load."
"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 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."
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Illumio is ranked 14th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 8 reviews while Orca Security is ranked 12th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 15 reviews. Illumio is rated 8.0, while Orca Security is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Orca Security writes "Allows agentless data collection directly from the cloud". Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Zero Networks Microsegmentation, 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 Illumio vs. Orca Security report.
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