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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.
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
Platform Capabilities
Posture & Compliance
Workload & Runtime Protection
Identity & Access Governance
Application & Supply Chain Security
Code and pipeline security targeting developer workflows.
Data & AI Security
Ecosystem Integrations
Native ecosystem integrations mapping into external enterprise tooling.
Extensibility & Policy Customization
Tracks platform customization limits, specifically engine custom policy writing engines.