Agent-based CWPPs require tedious deployments and management for each workload, leading to high TCO. Vendors offering a choice between agents and agentless approaches only add to the complexity and often have hidden limits on their ‘agentless’ capabilities. In addition, CWPPs only cover cloud workloads and miss risks in the cloud control plane, such as misconfigurations and overly permissive identities.
This limited visibility impacts the tool’s ability to provide full security coverage and effective alert prioritization. Any risks due to cloud misconfiguration (such as MFA not being enabled for the 'root' user account or KMS encryption keys not being rotated) cannot be detected by a CWPP. This lack of visibility also means CWPPs lack the context necessary to understand the full implications of a security issue and are therefore unable to prioritize alerts based on environmental context. This causes “swivel chair” alert triage, which leads to alert fatigue.
The Orca Platform provides full-stack visibility of your cloud estate, spanning the cloud infrastructure, OS, application, and data layers, without requiring a single agent and providing instant and continuous 100% coverage of your cloud assets.