Across Asia Pacific, cloud investment is soaring, global spending will double, from the already-substantial US$800 billion to US$1.6 trillion by 2028, according to IDC. This spending is driven by the need for increased flexibility, scalability, and access required to deploy and leverage advanced AI-enabled tools.
However, hidden beneath the cloud enthusiasm is a critical factor many organizations overlook: security.
Legacy security tools—such as the first-generation cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) and heavyweight agent-based solutions—simply cannot keep pace with the modern cloud landscape. These outdated solutions frequently fail to provide the comprehensive protection necessary for today’s single- and multi-cloud environments, leaving organizations exposed to cyberthreats.
Recent research underscores just how severe the gap has become. A majority (56%) of businesses now rely on cloud-provider AI models to create customized cloud solutions; yet, at least 98% still have not implemented encryption with self-managed keys. Such oversights increase the likelihood attackers can exploit exposed data and facilitate severe security incidents, including data breaches.
The problem compounds when legacy security practices lead to inefficiencies and cross-functional friction. Current statistics highlight the severity:
- 62% of organizations report severe vulnerabilities within their code repositories
- 70% of organizations store unencrypted secrets openly within repositories
- Security teams face over 500 alerts daily, with 55% admitting to regularly missing critical alerts
Moreover, a worrying lack of visibility leaves 47% of security leaders calling for enhanced oversight of their cloud environments.
Why Complete Visibility and Control Matter for Modern Cloud Security
As businesses rush to adopt cloud technologies, it’s clear that a new approach to cloud security is needed to protect these rapidly expanding digital infrastructures.
For Orca Security, this means having critical visibility into the full cloud estate and advanced capabilities that cover the entire cloud and application lifecycle, from development to production. This is seen in the Orca Cloud Security Platform, which delivers complete coverage across all cloud risks—such as misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identity risk, data security, API exposure, and other types—as well as advanced threats. The platform brings together core cloud security capabilities, including vulnerability management, multi-cloud compliance, cloud security posture management, data security, application security, infrastructure entitlement management, cloud detection, and cloud workload protection, to name just a few.
Moreover, Orca Security’s platform is engineered with risk prevention at its core, actively identifying and mitigating potential vulnerabilities before they escalate into significant security breaches. Its architecture is optimized for performance, scalability, and privacy, crucial for organizations navigating the complexities of modern, distributed, and single- or multi- cloud environments.
Orca Security takes it further by empowering security teams to prioritize the risks and attack paths that matter most to their business. This significantly reduces alert fatigue—something an often-stretched security professional would appreciate—and allows them to focus their efforts more effectively and efficiently.
For stakeholders, Orca Security’s ability to deliver persona-based views, be it for security practitioners, compliance managers, CISOs, DevOps, DevSecOps etc., gives them access to data-driven insights so they can make better decisions specific to their roles. Such tailored visibility fosters improved communication and collaboration between cross-functional teams, significantly reducing internal friction and boosting overall security posture.
Complementing the AWS ecosystem for enhanced security
Integral to Orca Security’s effectiveness is its deep integration within the AWS ecosystem, complementing AWS’s robust cloud offerings and seamlessly integrating with over 100 AWS services and products, including EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Security Hub, Bedrock, and Security Lake. Furthermore, Orca Security is an AWS Security Software partner with the AWS Security Competency certification and is AWS Service Ready for Amazon Linux 2. These integrations and certifications ensure users can leverage AWS’s powerful AI and cloud tools securely and confidently.
The tangible results from this suite of capabilities speak volumes. In 2025, Orca Security reported an impressive 55% year-over-year increase in overall platform users, including an astounding 323% growth in developer adoption. This sharp rise highlights the demand for comprehensive, secure, and manageable cloud security solutions amidst growing cloud and AI integration.
It goes without saying that robust security strategies become not just beneficial but an imperative, as the reliance on cloud and AI becomes increasingly central to business operations across industries. Orca Security provides the modern, comprehensive, and integrated security platform necessary to protect complex, AI-driven cloud operations.
With Orca Security, organizations can innovate confidently, knowing their cloud security matches the pace and scale of their businesses’ operations and ambitions in the cloud, right up to and including AI.
To learn more about how Orca Security supports secure, AI-driven cloud innovation, contact Orca Security or visit Orca Security in the AWS Marketplace.
