IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment and Orca Security compete in the cybersecurity market with different focuses. Orca Security seems to have the upper hand due to its cloud-native security platform and efficiency, while IBM Guardium is favored for data protection.
Features: IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment provides robust database activity monitoring, strong data encryption capabilities, and ensures compliance to secure sensitive information. Orca Security offers comprehensive cloud security posture management, real-time risk analysis across various cloud services, and provides a broader security scope in cloud environments.
Room for Improvement: IBM Guardium could benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing infrastructure adjustment requirements, and enhancing real-time risk analysis capabilities. Orca Security might improve its database protection features, increase support documentation, and expand its offerings to cater more to on-premise solutions.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Orca Security features an agentless deployment model, enabling faster integration without significant disruption, suitable for dynamic environments. IBM Guardium, though supported by comprehensive documentation, requires more infrastructure adjustments, which can slow deployment. Both offer strong customer service, but Orca's deployment model provides an edge in speed.
Pricing and ROI: IBM Guardium typically involves higher initial setup costs due to infrastructure needs, justified by its focus on data protection. Orca Security, with its cloud-centric model, tends to lower operational costs and enhance ROI for cloud-focused organizations with minimized deployment time and efficient administration.
Additionally, it covers a large scope of vulnerabilities, CVEs, malware, and misconfiguration.
Another improvement is in handling alerts for multiple files with the same CVE; it should provide an option to manage each file separately without affecting others.
When you onboard an organization, Orca will find new projects, folders, and resources without any additional effort required.
I would rate the quality of support as nine stars out of ten due to their quick and helpful responses.
The initial price seemed high, however, after negotiation, the final price was ideal.
IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment scans data infrastructures (databases, data warehouses and big data environments) to detect vulnerabilities, and suggests remedial actions. The solution identifies exposures such as missing patches, weak passwords, unauthorized changes and misconfigured privileges.
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
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