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Orca Security Advances AI-First Cloud Defense with Autonomous Agents and Runtime AI Threat Detection

Orca Security Advances AI-First Cloud Defense with Autonomous Agents and Runtime AI Threat Detection

Ahead of RSAC 2026, Orca Security unveils new AI-driven capabilities that help organizations cut through alert noise, accelerate investigations, and focus on the risks that truly impact multi-cloud and AI environments

Orca Security, the pioneer of agentless cloud security, announced major enhancements to the Orca Platform, introducing new AI-powered security agents, real-time detection of AI usage across cloud environments, remediation-focused workflows, and code reachability analysis. These innovations enable organizations to move beyond fragmented alerts to faster investigation, clearer prioritization, and measurable risk reduction in the AI-era.

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As enterprises accelerate AI adoption and scale across multi-cloud environments, security teams are inundated with alerts yet lack the context and prioritization needed to distinguish real, business-critical risk from background noise.ย Research showsย that 84% of organizations now run AI workloads in the cloud, and 62% already have vulnerable AI packages in their environments. Orcaโ€™s latest innovations extend its unified platform to help teams understand threats faster, focus on truly exploitable vulnerabilities, and take action with confidence.

โ€œSecurity teams donโ€™t need more data. They need to know what actually matters and what to do about it,โ€ said Gil Geron, CEO and co-founder of Orca Security. โ€œThese new capabilities are designed to turn complex cloud risk into clear, actionable guidance so teams can make faster decisions and reduce exposure in a measurable way. That shift from information to action is what ultimately improves security outcomes.โ€

New platform capabilities include:

  • Threat Investigation Agent:ย Orcaโ€™s Threat Investigation Agent automatically analyzes risk, correlates signals across the cloud environment, and produces transparent investigation reports with recommended containment actions.
  • AppSec Triage Agent:ย The new AppSec Triage Agent analyzes SAST findings to identify false positives, reduce alert fatigue, and help teams focus on real vulnerabilities.
  • Runtime AI Threat Detection:ย Orca now identifies when workloads, identities, and processes interact with AI models, MCP servers, and third-party AI tools. This enables security teams to understand how AI is being used, detect potential exposure of sensitive data, and implement AI governance based on real runtime activity.
  • Orca Missions:ย Orca groups related findings into Missionsโ€”focused remediation initiatives with clear objectives and verificationโ€”allowing teams to resolve clusters of risk efficiently and track meaningful improvements in their security posture.
  • Code Reachability Analysis:ย Orca now analyzes whether vulnerable code paths are actually invoked in applications, in addition to identifying vulnerable packages. Combined with Orcaโ€™s existing Agentless and Dynamic Reachability Analysis, this provides comprehensive context to help teams prioritize vulnerabilities that are truly exploitable.

These enhancements build on Orcaโ€™s agentless-first architecture, which provides deep visibility and risk prioritization across cloud infrastructure, workloads, identities, applications, and now AI systems, without requiring agents.

โ€œCloud security tools generate an incredible amount of data, but what teams really need is help understanding what to do next,โ€ said Erika Voss, SVP, Chief Security Officer at Blue Yonder. โ€œWhat stands out about Orca is the way it connects the dots. Instead of spending hours piecing together alerts, our team can see what actually happened, whatโ€™s exposed, and where to focus first.โ€

Orca Security will showcase these new capabilities at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco. Attendees can visit Orca at Booth #1035 in the South Hall of Moscone Center to see live demonstrations.

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