Orca Security delivers extensive visibility into risks across AWS, Azure, and GCP using agentless scanning. It identifies a wide array of exposures—from misconfigured S3 buckets to privilege escalations and workload vulnerabilities. But while Orca reveals the breadth of risk, it doesn’t manage what happens after detection.
That’s where Strobes steps in. As part of its Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform, Strobes integrates deeply with Orca to convert raw cloud findings into prioritized, trackable, and remediated issues at enterprise scale.
This document outlines how the integration works, the operational gaps it closes, and the measurable outcomes it creates for cloud-native security teams.
What Is Orca Security?
Orca is a leading Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) providing agentless risk visibility across cloud workloads, containers, identities, and configurations.
Key strengths include:
- Read-only scanning across AWS, Azure, and GCP using side-scanning
- Detection of cloud misconfigurations, malware, vulnerabilities, and identity risks
- Mapping of lateral movement attack paths across environments
- Integration with cloud-native services and runtime contexts
But despite these capabilities, Orca has limitations when it comes to:
- End-to-end remediation workflows
- Deduplication of persistent or repeated misconfigurations
- Correlating findings with other security tools
- Prioritizing issues based on business impact
- SLA enforcement and cross-team accountability
What Is Strobes?
Strobes is a CTEM platform built to operationalize security findings across hybrid environments. It combines four key modules:
- Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM)
- Pentesting-as-a-Service (PTaaS)
- Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)
- Attack Surface Management (ASM)
Rather than replacing scanners, Strobes enhances them. It acts as a security operations control plane that:
- Ingests vulnerability and configuration data from tools like Orca, Wiz, Snyk, and others
- Deduplicates and correlates findings across tools and cloud environments
- Prioritizes risks using threat intelligence and asset sensitivity
- Automates remediation with tickets, alerts, and reporting
- Tracks SLAs and retesting workflows end-to-end
Why Orca Integration with Strobes Exists?
Security and cloud engineering teams using Orca often encounter operational friction:
- Too many issues flagged with no clear resolution path
- No consistent scoring mechanism across cloud accounts
- Manual processes to track and assign misconfiguration fixes
- Compliance gaps due to a lack of structured evidence and documentation
The Orca Integration with Strobes is purpose-built to eliminate this friction. By combining Orca’s wide cloud visibility with Strobes’ orchestration and prioritization capabilities, teams move from alert fatigue to informed action.
What the Integration Does?
1. Ingesting Orca Findings
Once connected via API, Strobes pulls in the full set of Orca-generated risks:
- Cloud misconfigurations (e.g., open storage buckets, over-permissioned roles)
- Vulnerabilities in VMs and containers
- Identity and access risks
- Malware detection and lateral movement flags
- Cloud asset inventory
Findings are updated periodically, based on a configurable schedule (e.g., daily syncs).
2. Deduplication and Correlation
Security teams waste hours re-triaging the same alert. Strobes eliminate this with:
- Deduplication of recurring misconfigurations across syncs
- Cross-correlation between Orca and other sources (e.g., Snyk, Nessus)
- Auto-closure of issues once resolved in Orca
- Consistent issue IDs across syncs for historical tracking
This reduces redundant effort and prevents “alert recycling” across remediation queues.
3. Contextual Prioritization
Orca assigns severity levels based on technical parameters. Strobes builds on that by recalculating risk scores using:
- Exploitability intelligence (e.g., public exploits, CVE threat ratings)
- Asset classification (e.g., production vs. dev, externally exposed vs. internal)
- Business unit tags and sensitivity levels
- Presence on lateral movement paths
Security teams no longer treat all high-severity issues the same they fix what matters to the business first.
4. Workflow Automation
Strobes automates ticketing and escalation for Orca findings by:
- Creating tickets in Jira, ServiceNow, or Azure Boards based on severity or tags
- Assigning remediation tasks to relevant asset owners
- Triggering SLAs based on internal or compliance-specific timelines
- Sending alerts to Slack, Teams, or email
- Closing tickets once Orca verifies that the issue is resolved
Everything is logged, traceable, and auditable no manual exports or tracking spreadsheets.
5. Real-Time Reporting and Risk Dashboards
Security leaders and compliance teams benefit from Strobes’ dashboards that translate raw alerts into insights:
- Asset-centric vulnerability and misconfiguration reports
- Time-to-fix and SLA violation trends
- Compliance views mapped to NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and custom policies
- Drill-down access for evidence collection, root cause analysis, and patch verification
With a single platform, stakeholders from engineers to CISOs can access the same data with the lens that fits their role.
Operational Outcomes That Matter
1. Clarity Over Cloud Risk
Most Orca users ingest thousands of findings weekly. Without structure, only a fraction gets resolved. Strobes gives teams:
- Prioritized task lists based on exploitability + exposure
- Less duplication, fewer false positives
- Immediate context for decision-making
2. Shorter Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR)
By automating ticket routing, SLA tracking, and retesting, teams using Orca Integration with Strobes have seen:
- 40% faster remediation for high-severity cloud risks
- 60% fewer SLA violations across cloud misconfigurations
3. Audit-Ready Compliance
Instead of pulling ad hoc data, compliance and audit teams can extract:
- Issue-level evidence of remediation
- Timestamped ticket trails
- Control framework mappings
- SLA reports for critical issues
4. Scaled Across Cloud and Teams
Strobes support:
- Multi-account Orca syncs across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Role-based access for security, engineering, and compliance users
- Custom field mapping from Orca metadata into Strobes’ asset inventory
- CI/CD and threat intel integrations for cloud-native remediation
Who Uses This Integration?
- Cloud-first enterprises with multi-cloud architecture
- Security teams handling high volumes of misconfigurations
- DevOps teams seeking structured security workflows
- Regulated businesses require audit trails and SLA enforcement
Final Word
Orca surfaces cloud risks. Strobes translate them into action. The Orca Integration with Strobes eliminates redundancy, simplifies remediation, and aligns security work with business risk. If your cloud teams are stuck with unassigned alerts, low-context findings, or inconsistent remediation, this setup closes those gaps.
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