Case Study: Live Oak Bank achieves near‑real‑time cloud visibility and FDIC‑ready, developer‑friendly security with Orca Security

Orca Security Helps Live Oak Bank Innovate While Facilitating Compliance with Data Privacy and Security Mandates

Live Oak Bank, a cloud-native commercial bank focused on small businesses, needed to secure a sprawling AWS and Azure estate without slowing its DevOps teams or resorting to agent-based tools. Facing FDIC/FFIEC guidance on cloud security and a requirement for near-real-time visibility, Live Oak engaged Orca Security — using Orca’s SideScanning™ approach and a hybrid-SaaS deployment (Orca Pod) to meet regulatory and operational constraints.

Orca Security delivered an agentless, read-only integration that gave Live Oak full cloud visibility in as little as 5–10 minutes and enabled daily scans without impacting production or developer workflows. As a result, Live Oak moved from monthly vulnerability assessments to near-real-time monitoring, reduced friction with IT and DevOps, and gained the evidence needed to support FDIC compliance while keeping sensitive data in its own environment via Orca Pod.

Live Oak Bank

Thomas Hill

Chief Information Security Officer