Wiz Accused of Patent Infringement by Competitor Orca Security

Orca Security has filed a lawsuit against Wiz, its competitor in the cloud security space, accusing it of patent infringement. Orca Security, which was founded in 2019, is a pioneer in agentless cloud security and has around 500 employees. Wiz, which was founded one year later, has already grown to 1,000 employees and claims to be reinventing cloud security from the cloud environment. Both companies offer security solutions for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Orca Security Alleges Wiz Copied Their Intellectual Property

According to the complaint, Orca Security alleges that Wiz’s success is due to copying their intellectual property. The complaint states that Wiz copied everything from Orca’s posts to “even the coffee it serves at trade shows.” Furthermore, Orca Security alleges that Wiz employed Orca’s former patent attorney “to copy Orca’s intellectual property and even the numbers of Orca’s patents.”

Orca Security Claims Wiz Is Competing With Its Own Technological Breakthroughs

Orca Security claims that Wiz has embedded a number of revolutionary inventions developed and patented by Orca, and has falsely passed them off as Wiz innovations. As a result, Orca Security is forced to compete with its own technological breakthroughs in the marketplace.
It remains to be seen whether Orca Security can prove that intellectual rights have been violated. Wiz has already secured a number of collaborations, including with SentinelOne and Noname last year.