We performed a comparison between Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation provides useful features like monitoring, automated policy writing, and visibility into application communication and network protocols. Wiz offers risk prioritization, user-friendly dashboards, and agentless scanning of cloud environments. Illumio needs to expand OS support and effectiveness in on-prem environments. Wiz could improve its reporting capabilities, remediation speed, and visibility into Kubernetes containers.
Service and Support: Some reviewers praised the Illumio team's quick response and availability, but reported receiving unhelpful replies and delayed responses. Reviewers had generally positive experiences with Wiz's customer service. They appreciated the excellent support, accessibility, and strong post-sales assistance.
Ease of Deployment: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation had a lengthy and complex setup process that lasted about six months. On the other hand, setting up Wiz was quick and simple, taking only one to two hours. Illumio required testing and deployment, and Wiz involves additional work when users have multiple cloud environments.
Pricing: Users have found Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation to be expensive overall, although the specific setup cost is not mentioned. In contrast, Wiz is praised for its simple pricing model, but there are concerns regarding potential changes and its long-term viability.
ROI: Reviewers provided no information about Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation's ROI. Wiz users said that the solution demonstrates immediate benefits and a substantial ROI.
Comparison Results: Illumio is preferred over Wiz. It offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities, enabling users to track web traffic and block bad actors. Illumio also provides better visibility into application communication and network protocols. Reviewers praised Illumio's 24/7 assistance, and the solution's visibility into Kubernetes containers gives it a leg up on Wiz.
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"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 product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"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."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"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."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"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."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
Illumio is ranked 14th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 8 reviews while Wiz is ranked 3rd in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 11 reviews. Illumio is rated 8.0, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Lacework. See our Illumio vs. Wiz report.
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