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What is Wiz
Wiz is a cloud security platform that provides unified visibility and risk prioritization across public cloud environments. It is used by security, cloud, and DevSecOps teams to identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identity and access risks, and sensitive data exposures across cloud accounts and workloads. The product emphasizes agentless discovery and correlation of findings into attack paths to help teams prioritize remediation. It also supports continuous compliance reporting and integrations with common cloud and security tooling.
Agentless cloud asset discovery
Wiz primarily uses API-based, agentless scanning to inventory cloud resources and evaluate risk across accounts and subscriptions. This approach can reduce deployment overhead compared with tools that require per-host agents for baseline visibility. It is well-suited for organizations that need broad coverage across multiple cloud services and rapid onboarding. It also helps teams assess ephemeral and managed services where agents are not practical.
Correlated risk and attack paths
Wiz correlates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity permissions, network exposure, and data sensitivity into contextual risk views. This can help teams move from large volumes of discrete findings to prioritized remediation based on reachable attack paths. The approach supports cross-team workflows by tying issues to affected assets and contributing factors. It is particularly useful in complex cloud environments where risk emerges from combinations of conditions.
Broad CNAPP feature coverage
The platform spans multiple CNAPP capabilities, including CSPM, CIEM, workload and container security signals, and data security posture use cases. This consolidation can reduce the need to operate separate point tools for posture, entitlement analysis, and exposure prioritization. It also supports compliance-oriented reporting for common cloud control frameworks. Integrations with ticketing and security operations tools help operationalize findings.
Not a full runtime EDR
While Wiz provides workload and container security context, its core model is cloud configuration and control-plane visibility rather than deep endpoint-style runtime telemetry. Organizations needing high-fidelity process, memory, and behavioral detection on hosts may still require dedicated endpoint/runtime tooling. This can lead to a split architecture for prevention and detection across layers. Buyers should validate runtime coverage for their specific threat models and workloads.
Prioritization depends on data quality
Attack-path and exposure prioritization relies on accurate cloud inventory, identity mappings, and configuration data from cloud providers and connected systems. Gaps in tagging, ownership metadata, or inconsistent account structures can reduce the usefulness of prioritization and routing. Teams may need governance work (naming, tagging, account hygiene) to get consistent results. This adds operational effort beyond initial deployment.
Cost and scope management
CNAPP platforms can become expensive as cloud footprints grow, especially when licensing scales with assets, accounts, or workloads. Broad feature sets also require careful scoping to avoid enabling more modules than teams can operationalize. Without clear ownership and remediation SLAs, findings can accumulate and reduce perceived value. Procurement should align licensing metrics and rollout phases with measurable operational capacity.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Hybrid / Usage-based and seat-based How to get prices: Custom quote required (pricing not published on Wiz official site)
Billing metrics (as stated on Wiz official site):
- Wiz Cloud (CNAPP/CSPM/CWPP/etc.): Typically priced based on cloud assets/workload count ("cloud workload count").
- Wiz Code (ASPM/SCA/SAST/IaC scanning): Billed based on number of active developers (seat-based).
- Wiz Defend / runtime capabilities: Included as part of the platform; exact billing metric not published.
Free tier/trial: 14-day free trial / PoC available (official "Start your free trial" page).
Example costs: Not published on the vendor site; Wiz requires contacting sales for a custom quote.
Discounts / Pricing notes: The site indicates pricing depends on factors specific to the customer environment (number of clouds, features required, workloads), so discounts/volume options are provided via sales during quoting (not publicly listed).
Seller details
Wiz, Inc.
New York, NY, USA
2020
Private
https://www.wiz.io/
https://x.com/wiz_io
https://www.linkedin.com/company/wizsecurity/
