Wiz for Cloud Security Teams

In-Depth Review

Wiz launched in 2020 and achieved the fastest growth in cybersecurity history, reaching a $12 billion valuation within three years. Founded by the same team that built Microsoft’s Cloud App Security, Wiz was purpose-built to solve the visibility and prioritization challenges that legacy security tools were never designed to handle in cloud-native environments.

What Sets Wiz Apart

The agentless architecture is Wiz’s most obvious differentiator, but its real power lies in what agentless scanning enables: complete visibility within hours rather than weeks. By connecting via cloud provider APIs and using snapshot-based scanning, Wiz can assess every workload, container, and serverless function across all cloud accounts without any deployment effort, change management processes, or agent maintenance.

The Security Graph and attack path analysis transform how cloud risk is understood and communicated. Rather than presenting security teams with thousands of individual vulnerabilities and misconfigurations sorted by CVSS score, Wiz identifies which findings combine to create exploitable attack chains. A medium-severity vulnerability on a workload that is publicly exposed, has access to sensitive data, and runs with an overprivileged service account is a far higher priority than a critical vulnerability on an isolated internal system — and Wiz surfaces this distinction automatically.

The platform’s breadth of coverage across CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and DSPM in a single product eliminates the need for separate tools and their associated integration overhead. Security teams get a unified view of posture, workload vulnerabilities, identity risks, and data exposure across all cloud providers in one console.

Limitations to Understand

Wiz’s agentless approach, while excellent for posture management and vulnerability assessment, cannot provide runtime protection. It does not detect active attacks, block malicious processes, or respond to threats in real time. Organizations still need endpoint and workload protection solutions for active defense — Wiz identifies the risks, but it cannot stop an exploit in progress.

The scanning cadence also means there is a window between resource creation and assessment. Ephemeral workloads that spin up and down within a scan cycle may not be evaluated. Organizations with highly dynamic environments should understand this limitation and consider runtime-capable tools for their most sensitive workloads.

The Bottom Line

Wiz is the clear leader in cloud security posture management for organizations with meaningful cloud infrastructure. Its agentless deployment, attack path analysis, and unified risk visualization make it the fastest way to understand and prioritize cloud security risks. Pair it with runtime protection tools and developer security platforms for a complete cloud security program.