We performed a comparison between AWS Security Hub and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AWS Security Hub excels in integration and real-time alerts, particularly regarding potential compliance issues with CIS standards. Wiz, on the other hand, is valued for its ability to provide context and prioritize risks, as well as offering automation roles and easy-to-read dashboards. It also has a unique Security Graph feature for customizable reports. AWS Security Hub needs more integration options and multi-cloud compatibility, while Wiz requires preventive controls, refined reporting, and customizable dashboards. Additionally, Wiz needs to expand into File Integrity Monitoring and improve remediation workflow, while AWS Security Hub has concerns with updating and integrating with other security tools.
Service and Support: AWS Security Hub's technical support is efficient and effective, while Wiz's customer service is exceptional with knowledgeable representatives who are enthusiastic about their product. Users consistently rate Wiz's customer support as excellent.
Ease of Deployment: AWS Security Hub's setup is easy but policy configuration is required. On the other hand, Wiz's setup is straightforward and seamless across multiple public clouds. Wiz's platform provides immediate value and requires minimal maintenance. However, some customization may be necessary based on the integration environment.
Pricing: AWS Security Hub's cost is deemed reasonable and satisfactory, though it may not be clear to non-central team members. Wiz's pricing is generally fair and simple, but some concerns exist about possible price increases and lack of transparency. Despite being on the higher end of the market, Wiz's cost is comparable to its competitors.
ROI: Both AWS Security Hub and Wiz are deemed to be effective in providing users with positive ROI. However, Wiz is highlighted for its superior asset management, vulnerability identification, and decentralized investigations.
Comparison Results: AWS Security Hub is favored for its strong integration capabilities with AWS and third-party tools, real-time alerts, and comprehensive compliance alerts. Wiz excels at providing risk context, agentless scanning, and easy-to-read dashboards, but needs preventive controls and improved reporting.
"I find all of the features to be highly valuable."
"The platform has valuable features for security."
"I really like the seamless integration with the AWS account structure. It can even be made mandatory as part of the landing zone. These are great features. And there's a single pane of glass for the entire account."
"The best feature of AWS Security Hub is that you can get compliance or your cloud's current security posture."
"Finding out if your infrastructure is secure is a valuable feature."
"AWS Security Hub has very good integration features. It allows for AWS native services integration, and it helps us to integrate some of the services outside of AWS. They have partners, such as Amazon Preferred Network Partners (APN). If you have different security tools around APN, we can integrate those findings with AWS Security Hub reducing the need to refer to different portals or different UIs. You can have AWS Security Hub act as a single common go-to dashboard."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to manage...It is a scalable solution."
"It's a security posture management tool from AWS. Basically, it identifies misconfigurations, similar to Trusted Advisor but on a larger scale."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"The user interface, graphs, and dashboards of the solution could improve in the future. They are not very sophisticated and could use an update."
"The telemetry doesn't always go into the control center. When you have multiple instances running in AWS, you need a control tower to take feeds from Security Hub and analyze your results. Sometimes exemptions aren't passed between the control tower and Security Hub. The configuration gets mixed up or you don't get the desired results."
"Adding SIEM features would be beneficial because of the limited customization of AWS Security Hub."
"One aspect that could be improved in the solution is its adaptability to different markets and geopolitical restrictions. In certain regions like Thailand, specific services from certain countries or providers, such as AWS or Azure, might be limited or blocked. It also needs improvement in would require configuring the solution more adaptable to AWS infrastructure and function."
"The solution will only give you insight if you have configure rule enabled. It should work more like Prisma Cloud and Dome9 which have a better approach."
"Whenever my team gets some alarms from the central team, my team needs to initiate whether it's a real or false trigger. The central team needs to keep adjusting to the parameters or at least the concerned IPs, whether it's really from the company's pool of IPs, so the trigger process can be improved. In the next release of AWS Security Hub, I'd like a better dashboard that could result in better alert visibility."
"Security needs to be measured based on their own criteria. We can't add custom criteria specific to our organization. For example, having an S3 bucket publicly available might be flagged as a critical alert, but it might not be critical in a sandbox environment. So, it gets flagged as critical, which becomes a false positive. So, customization options and creating custom dashboards would be areas for improvement."
"It is not flexible for multi-cloud environments."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
AWS Security Hub is ranked 14th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 16 reviews while Wiz is ranked 2nd in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 11 reviews. AWS Security Hub is rated 7.6, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of AWS Security Hub writes "A centralized dashboard that enables efficient monitoring and management of possible security issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". AWS Security Hub is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security and Google Chronicle Suite, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Lacework and Aqua Cloud Security Platform. See our AWS Security Hub vs. Wiz report.
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