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Description

Wiz is the industry-leading Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that empowers organizations to secure everything they build and run in the cloud. By utilizing a proprietary 'Security Graph' engine, Wiz correlates data across CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, DSPM, and ASPM modules to eliminate the noise of siloed security tools. The platform provides a unified, contextual view of cloud risk, allowing security teams to prioritize and remediate the most critical toxic combinations such as vulnerabilities, excessive privileges, and exposed sensitive data across multi-cloud and containerized environments.

Key Features

  • The Wiz Security Graph: A contextual risk-correlation engine that synthesizes data from across the entire cloud stack. It identifies "toxic combinations" e.g., an internet-facing virtual machine with a critical vulnerability, an associated administrative role, and access to a database containing PII surfacing deep risk paths that traditional scanners miss.
  • Agentless-First Discovery & Scanning: Achieves 100% visibility into cloud environments via cloud-provider APIs and out-of-band disk snapshot analysis. This eliminates the operational burden of agent deployment and maintenance, ensuring complete coverage of serverless, managed services, and transient workloads.
  • Unified Data & AI Security: Integrated Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) that automatically discovers sensitive data across object stores and databases, coupled with AI-SPM to monitor LLM integrations, training buckets, and model misconfigurations, ensuring comprehensive data governance.
  • Developer-Centric Remediation: Democratizes security by providing developers with actionable insights, custom dashboards, and automated ticket routing (Jira/ServiceNow). Bidirectional code-to-cloud traceability allows teams to pinpoint the exact repository, branch, and developer responsible for a production misconfiguration or vulnerability.
  • Extensible Policy Engine: Provides robust customization through a visual GUI rule builder and native support for Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Rego, allowing security engineering teams to codify organization-specific compliance requirements directly into the platform.
Best Fit

Wiz is the best fit for enterprise organizations and cloud-native startups that prioritize speed, scale, and operational efficiency. It is specifically designed for:

  • Multi-Cloud Enterprises: Teams managing vast, dynamic footprints across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI who need a single source of truth to normalize security posture.
  • Resource-Constrained Security Teams: Organizations aiming to move away from 'agent-heavy' architectures that cause performance overhead, deployment friction, and visibility gaps.
  • Mature DevSecOps Organizations: Teams looking to shift left by integrating security directly into CI/CD pipelines while maintaining deep, graph-based observability in the production environment."

Deployment & Architecture

Agentless Scanning
YES
Agent-Based Protection
YES
Snapshot Analysis (Vendor Cloud)
YES
Snapshot Analysis (Customer Cloud)
YES
Fully Self-Hosted Backend (BYOC)
NO
Terraform Provider Available
YES
Opensource
NO

Platform Capabilities

Posture & Compliance

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

API Security Posture Management

Graph-Based Attack Path Analysis

Workload & Runtime Protection

Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
eBPF Runtime Enforcement
Vulnerability Management (CVE)
Malware & Ransomware Detection
Container Registry Scanning
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
Network Microsegmentation

Identity & Access Governance

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)
Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)
Least-Privilege Remediation Automation
Just-In-Time (JIT) Privileged Access

Application & Supply Chain Security

Code and pipeline security targeting developer workflows.

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Scanning
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Dynamic SBOM Generation
Hardcoded Secrets & Token Detection
Code-to-Cloud Traceability Mapping

Data & AI Security

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)

Ecosystem Integrations

Native ecosystem integrations mapping into external enterprise tooling.

Extensibility & Policy Customization

Tracks platform customization limits, specifically engine custom policy writing engines.

Custom CWPP Workload Behavior Rules
Custom Infrastructure-as-Code Policies