Wiz Cloud Security Platform
Wiz is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that provides agentless visibility and risk assessment across multi-cloud environments.
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Wiz is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that provides agentless visibility and risk assessment across multi-cloud environments.
# Wiz Cloud Security Platform
Wiz is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that provides agentless visibility and risk assessment across multi-cloud environments. By connecting directly to cloud provider APIs and analyzing cloud configurations, workloads, identities, and data without deploying agents on individual resources, Wiz builds a unified security graph that maps all cloud assets and their relationships, enabling organizations to identify attack paths, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Wiz operates through an agentless architecture that scans cloud environments via API connections:
Agentless Scanning: Rather than deploying agents on each workload, Wiz reads cloud API metadata, takes snapshots of running workloads (disk snapshots), and analyzes them externally. This provides complete coverage without performance impact, deployment overhead, or compatibility issues.
Security Graph: Wiz builds a contextual graph connecting all cloud resources: VMs, containers, serverless functions, databases, storage buckets, IAM roles, network configurations, and Kubernetes clusters. This graph enables attack path analysis by showing how vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identity weaknesses chain together.
Capabilities:
Attack Path Analysis: The killer feature. Wiz identifies toxic combinations: a publicly exposed VM with a critical vulnerability, running with an overprivileged IAM role, connected to a database containing PII. Each issue alone might be medium-severity; together they form a critical attack path.
Cloud environments are complex, dynamic, and distributed. Traditional security tools designed for static, on-premises environments cannot keep pace. The average enterprise cloud environment changes thousands of times per day as resources are created, modified, and destroyed.
Wiz addresses two fundamental challenges:
First, visibility. Most organizations cannot answer basic questions about their cloud environment: How many resources exist? What vulnerabilities do they have? What data do they contain? What permissions do they hold? Wiz answers these questions across all cloud providers from a single console.
Second, prioritization. Cloud environments generate thousands of security findings. Most are low-risk in isolation but combine into critical attack paths. Wiz's graph-based analysis prioritizes the combinations that matter, dramatically reducing alert noise while surfacing the exposures that attackers would actually exploit.
Wiz's rapid growth (reaching $350M+ ARR faster than any cybersecurity company in history) reflects the market demand for consolidated cloud security with actionable prioritization.
Wiz exemplifies the CNAPP platformization trend that CDA tracks under the Vulnerability & Surface Defense (VSD) domain. It consolidates multiple cloud security functions (CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, DSPM) into a single platform, reducing tool sprawl while improving signal quality.
CDA evaluates and recommends cloud security platforms during M-VSD-B02 and M-SPH-B02, selecting based on client cloud providers, scale, and security maturity. Wiz is a strong option for organizations seeking comprehensive cloud visibility without agent deployment overhead.
CDA's recommendation: Wiz is excellent for visibility and prioritization but should be complemented with runtime protection (CDR/CWPP with runtime agents) for workloads that require real-time threat detection.
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Written by Evan Morgan
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