This technical brief explains how Orca SideScanning is a patented, agentless technology designed to secure modern cloud environments without the deployment, performance, and cost issues of traditional tools. It shows why legacy agent-based scanners, CWPP, CSPM, and network scanners fail in dynamic cloud environments, creating blind spots, operational friction, and alert overload. SideScanning works by using read-only access to cloud provider APIs and snapshots of workload block storage to inspect cloud assets from the outside, much like an MRI, without touching or impacting running workloads. By combining deep workload inspection with control-plane metadata, Orca builds a unified data model that detects vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, malware, exposed keys and passwords, sensitive data

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