Orca Security vs Skyhawk Security comparison

Orca Security and Skyhawk Security are both solutions in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category. Orca Security is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.6, while Skyhawk Security is ranked #21 with an average rating of 9.0. Orca Security holds a 5.2% mindshare in CWPP, compared to Skyhawk Security’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Orca Security users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Skyhawk Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Orca Security and Skyhawk Security compete in the cloud security solutions market. Skyhawk Security seems to have the upper hand due to its robust analytics and comprehensive feature set that appeals to larger enterprises.

Features: Orca Security provides comprehensive coverage and effective threat detection, offering quick visibility across cloud environments. It also has an intuitive interface for ease of use. Skyhawk Security boasts advanced analytics with detailed reporting tools, providing deeper risk insights and extensive feature sets for a broader security scope.

Room for Improvement: Orca Security can enhance its real-time alerting capabilities to support faster response measures. Its integration process could be smoother, and there is room for improvement in user management functionalities. Skyhawk Security needs a streamlined integration process, a more intuitive interface, and better customization options for specific user needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Orca Security offers a straightforward deployment process with responsive support, catering to companies of all sizes. Skyhawk Security has a more complex deployment, but its thorough customer support helps alleviate these challenges, providing detailed assistance to manage the complexity.

Pricing and ROI: Orca Security provides competitive setup costs with favorable ROI, driven by user satisfaction. Skyhawk Security is more expensive, delivering ROI on par with its advanced features, attracting organizations seeking a comprehensive security solution that justifies the cost.

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Qualys TotalCloud

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 1.7%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Orca Security is 5.2%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Skyhawk Security is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Orca Security	5.2%
Qualys TotalCloud	1.7%
Skyhawk Security	0.8%
Other	92.3%

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Featured Reviews

Robert Orłowski

IT Security Expert at Alior Bank S.A.

Unified risk scoring has improved our cloud visibility and simplifies remediation priorities

Qualys TotalCloud provides unified vulnerability and threat assessment across both IAS and SaaS. This solution provides a single prioritized view of risk, which helps reduce the work I would have to do. We are no longer based on CVSS; we are based on Qualys risk scoring, which is based on CVSS plus internal findings made by Qualys, and then assigns its own score. The TruRisk insight feature has found a small number of assets with high vulnerability scores, though I am cautious since some information is classified. Qualys TotalCloud has positively impacted our bank's performance, and we have definitely seen benefits after implementing this solution.

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Nykole Denoo

Cyber Security Analyst at BNY

Cloud risk visibility has transformed how I prioritize threats and reduce unnecessary spend

From my perspective, Orca Security is a really good tool. I would say one area I would like to see CNAPP platforms get is more intelligence when it comes to risk prioritization, which correlates with vulnerability, exposing assets, identities, and active threats to help the security team focus on risks that are more likely to be exploited. I am a huge advocate for automation. I also think deeper automation for remediation or stronger integration with ticketing and CI/CD pipelines or more customization would help. Executive reporting would help the security team respond significantly faster and communicate risk more effectively if those kinds of improvements are made.

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Abhimanyu Das

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Kyndryl

Cloud threat validation has reduced alert fatigue and now focuses investigations on real attacks

Skyhawk Security is pretty solid overall, but there are a few things I wish were better. One thing would be more native integration with Microsoft security tools such as Sentinel and Defender, since those are what we use daily. Having deeper built-in integration instead of relying on generic SIM connections would save time. The training and documentation could also be more comprehensive, with more real-world use case examples specific to different industries. Additionally, having more general customization for the AI models to adjust what gets flagged as anomalous in our specific environment would help reduce alert noise. These are pretty minor improvements, and most of them are probably already in their roadmap based on their recent updates adding self-AI training and bulk status changes for their customers. I believe a mobile app would benefit SOC analysts who need to respond frequently while on the go, as most of the platform feels focused on desktop use. Having a robust mobile experience for approving automated responses and reviewing critical alerts would be really useful.

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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 feature is extensibility."

"With TotalCloud, we can scan through the API. If we are not able to deploy cloud agents on the machine, we can use the API."

"We were able to realize its benefits within 24 to 48 hours."

"TotalCloud's best feature is the integration of cloud accounts. It helps with the risk and security posture management of our cloud infrastructure."

"The best features in Qualys TotalCloud include the total asset management of the cloud environment. It is very easy to export the report and see the vulnerabilities related to the cloud specifically."

"Qualys TotalCloud provides a single, prioritized view of risk, reducing the workload associated with consolidating multiple sources for risk prioritization."

"I would definitely recommend Qualys TotalCloud to other users."

"I would recommend Qualys TotalCloud to other users because it is cost-efficient and has a good return on investment."

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"Orca Security has helped reduce the time it takes to address cloud security alerts."

"Orca Security is the best one for me because it delivers all the things that I need and more."

"Orca Security has helped our organization become compliant and maintain high standards because any organization with multiple products needs to be compliant, especially when it comes to underlying infrastructure and cloud resources."

"Orca Security has helped significantly to reduce the time it took to identify or prioritize cloud security alerts because of the way it provides a centralized view of risk and correlated findings across the cloud environment."

"It covers our entire multi-cloud environment in a single view and tells us everything we need to know about our vulnerability footprint."

"Orca Security saves resources because it provides the actual output on the screen with the package path."

"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."

"One of the valuable features of Orca Security is its design and options that allow flexible filtering and user-friendly visualization."

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"We fell in love at the first sight."

"The initial setup process is easy and intuitive."

"Skyhawk Security has positively impacted my organization because we are a small security team, and Skyhawk Security allows us to prioritize our work."

"It helps us in reaching the ISO27001 certification."

"Skyhawk Security has plenty of products and subscriptions available, and at this moment, Skyhawk Security appears to be the leading company in the cybersecurity area."

"Skyhawk Security has had a really positive impact on our organization, especially in reducing false positives and speeding up incident response times."

Cons

"To improve the user experience, reporting could be simplified for better comprehension by end users and project managers, facilitating issue resolution."

"Although TotalCloud is a helpful tool, some of its advanced features are still under development."

"The main area needing improvement is integration. Although the team is strengthening TotalCloud, integration can be enhanced with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, and other sources."

"The support process is inefficient due to the excessive number of replies required when submitting tickets."

"In a future release, I suggest that zero-day vulnerabilities should be predicted in advance using AI technologies. The system is not 100% secure yet, so proactive threat hunting could be enhanced to be more proactive than the current system."

"Their customer support needs improvement."

"The areas in the solution that have room for improvement include the UI/UX design, which should be improved, and they should integrate more artificial intelligence into the product."

"I would like the ability to disable certain default built-in policies as they can be misleading when creating dashboards. That is the top one."

More Qualys TotalCloud cons

"I work in an SMB organization and find Orca Security quite expensive."

"I would like to see better customization options for security frameworks and better integration with reporting tools like Power BI or Grafana dashboards."

"I would be happy if they offered more automatic remediation options."

"Orca Security can be improved as it is very good at posture, but it does not detect attacks or behavioral attacks in the cloud on its own; it depends on other security features or logs like GuardDuty from Amazon, lacking its own intelligence to detect and respond to attacks."

"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."

"They can expand a little bit in anti-malware detection."

"Some visualizations and dashboards in Orca Security were not as clear to me; even though I can edit and modify them as much as I prefer, the dashboards that came with the application were not ideal."

"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."

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"I wish there was more transparent self-service pricing information available instead of having to go through sales to get the details."

"The solution needs automatic testing."

"The platform’s interface needs enhancement."

"Skyhawk Security can be improved mainly by improving the UI so it is a little bit easier to use, and the speed that it takes pages to load are the main downfalls."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Although Qualys TotalCloud is relatively expensive due to its unique automation features, its cost-effectiveness is rated an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."

"It isn't cheap, but it's reasonable. It helps us to manage things with very few resources."

"I am not sure about the pricing. From what I understand, it is a bit on the higher side, but I do not have the exact numbers."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility."

"Qualys TotalCloud is cost-efficient and was selected for its value compared to other products."

"The cost is high, but it meets our organizational needs."

"The pricing for TotalCloud is attractive and competitive in the market. Given the features, especially the dashboard, I have no concerns regarding pricing."

"Its price seems higher compared to other tools, but it is worth it. If they could adjust the pricing and make it comparable with other tools, that would be great."

More Qualys TotalCloud pricing and cost advice

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

"I think their pricing model is aligned with market demand. Of course, Orca could probably better align their pricing model with the needs of smaller businesses as well as some larger-scale enterprises with millions of assets. But in all fairness, I think the Orca sales team has been accommodating and ensured that we're happy with the pricing."

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

"Overall, the pricing is reasonable and the discounts have been acceptable."

"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."

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

"Its license is a bit expensive."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	30

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	16

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys TotalCloud?

The price is very expensive, actually.

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What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?

To be totally honest, I do not have any best features because I have had a bad experience using this tool, especially...

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What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?

My main use case for Qualys TotalCloud is vulnerability management and exposure management. I use this tool to evalua...

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What needs improvement with Orca Security?

Regarding how Orca Security can be improved, I think there is not much; it is fully completed and it is great.

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What is your primary use case for Orca Security?

My main use case for Orca Security is to secure infrastructure, course, and service. A specific example of how I use ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Orca Security?

My advice to others looking into using Orca Security is to practice and study the platform in test scenarios. My impr...

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I do not have access to specific pricing details and licensing costs as that is managed by our management team, but I...

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What needs improvement with Radware Cloud Native Protector?

Skyhawk Security is pretty solid overall, but there are a few things I wish were better. One thing would be more nati...

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What is your primary use case for Radware Cloud Native Protector?

My main use case of Skyhawk Security is cutting through the massive volume of alerts I deal with daily in my SOC oper...

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Overview

Qualys TotalCloud enhances security posture across cloud environments with continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and risk visualization, ensuring efficient threat assessment and automated remediation for improved cyber risk reduction.

Qualys TotalCloud offers a robust suite of security tools essential for organizations managing multi-cloud infrastructures. By integrating cloud accounts and automating workflows, it supports AWS, Azure, and GCP, offering comprehensive vulnerability management and zero-day detection. The platform's user-friendly design, combined with its extensive risk management and unified threat assessment capabilities, enables organizations to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities effectively. TruRisk Insights provides clear insights on cyber risks, while the automation options streamline patch management and scanning processes. API integration across IaaS and SaaS environments further enhances resource allocation efficiency and saves time, addressing misconfigurations across cloud environments.

What are the most important features of Qualys TotalCloud?

Accurate Vulnerability Reports: Delivers precise and actionable insights for risk mitigation.
Zero-Day Detection: Identifies and addresses zero-day vulnerabilities proactively.
Unified Threat Assessment: Offers comprehensive evaluation of threats across the environment.
Extensive Risk Management: Manages risks effectively with advanced insights and prioritization.
Continuous Monitoring: Provides non-stop surveillance for vulnerabilities and threats.
Cloud-Native Automation: Streamlines processes and reduces manual efforts using automation.
FlexScan for Internet-Facing VMs: Scans external VMs efficiently to detect vulnerabilities.
Dashboard Risk Visualization: Clear visualization helps prioritize vulnerabilities.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Improved Security Posture: Enhances threat detection and response across clouds.
Time Savings: Automation reduces time spent on manual vulnerability management.
Resource Efficiency: Better allocation of resources through streamlined workflows.
Enhanced Risk Prioritization: Focus on critical vulnerabilities for effective mitigation.
Integrated Cloud Accounts: Facilitates seamless cloud management and security.

Qualys TotalCloud is deployed in sectors needing rigorous vulnerability management, such as finance and healthcare. Companies utilize it to secure multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP, focus on compliance, and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines to detect and remedy threats pre-deployment.

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Orca Security provides comprehensive security management with agentless visibility and SideScanning technology, ensuring efficient threat detection without performance impact.

Orca Security offers agentless visibility across multi-cloud environments, streamlining security management with features like SideScanning technology and centralized security tools. It focuses on automation, vulnerability management, and compliance checks, enhancing a company's security posture with real-time alerts and integrated threat detection. Its intuitive interface prioritizes critical issues, making it suitable for managing DevSecOps processes efficiently.

What are the key features of Orca Security?

Agentless Visibility: Gain comprehensive insights into cloud environments without deploying agents.
SideScanning Technology: Detect threats and vulnerabilities efficiently across platforms.
Comprehensive Security Management: Centralizes security across AWS, GCP, and Azure with minimal setup effort.
CIEM Feature: Enhances security posture with integrated identity and access management.
Real-Time Alerts: Provide immediate awareness of security threats and vulnerabilities.
Automation and Compliance: Streamline processes with automated vulnerability management and compliance checks.

What benefits and ROI should companies look for in Orca Security?

Centralized Management: Simplifies security operations by consolidating tools across cloud environments.
Improved Security Posture: Reduces alerts and manages threats effectively with detailed insights.
Efficient Threat Detection: Enhances response capabilities with integrated threat detection and real-time alerts.
Easy Deployment and Setup: Facilitates quick implementation without complex configurations.
Enhanced Integration: Supports seamless integration with existing security frameworks and processes.

Companies in industries such as finance, healthcare, and technology leverage Orca Security for cloud security posture management, ensuring compliance with standards and securing applications and databases. Its agentless approach provides comprehensive visibility across AWS, GCP, and Azure, enhancing risk assessment and vulnerability management without impacting asset performance.

Orca Security

Skyhawk Security provides advanced threat detection and response, offering businesses comprehensive cybersecurity management in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Skyhawk Security stands out in threat intelligence, delivering robust solutions tailored to enhance cybersecurity protocols for organizations. It specializes in detecting and analyzing potential threats with high accuracy, effectively minimizing risks. Its intuitive technology allows for streamlined integration and efficient scalability, making it adaptable for businesses of different sizes and requirements.

What features does Skyhawk Security offer?

Advanced Threat Detection: Identifies threats quickly and accurately, reducing potential risks.
Scalability: Adapts to business size and growth without compromising performance.
Intuitive Integration: Seamlessly integrates with existing systems for easier management.

What benefits should users look for?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for extensive manual security management, saving costs.
Improved Risk Management: Enhances identification and response capabilities, lowering threat impacts.
Time Savings: Automates routine tasks, allowing teams to focus on strategic security measures.

Industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail implement Skyhawk Security to strengthen their defenses against cyber threats, ensuring data protection and compliance with industry regulations. Its adaptable solutions provide the reliability needed in these sectors, offering peace of mind and robust security management.

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Sample Customers

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

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