We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Automation and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: VMware Aria Automation has a strong focus on automation capabilities, including customizable user experience and preset policies. In comparison, Wiz offers an agentless scanning and inventory feature, as well as a cloud security posture management feature. VMware Aria Automation could improve its multitenancy management, migration process, and licensing models while also simplifying its orchestration workflow. Wiz, on the other hand, should focus on implementing preventive controls, refining reporting, and improving risk assessment. It could also benefit from expanding into File Integrity Monitoring and improving remediation workflow.
Service and Support: VMware Aria Automation has decent technical support, but it's not as good as other solutions according to some users. On the other hand, Wiz's customer service is highly praised for their excellent technical support and knowledgeable CSMs.
Ease of Deployment: VMware Aria Automation's setup requires expertise and is time-consuming, while Wiz's setup is easy and requires minimal maintenance.
Pricing: VMware Aria Automation's cost is high and its licensing models are complicated, while Wiz has a fair and straightforward pricing model. Wiz is considered to be expensive but competitive with other options.
ROI: VMware Aria Automation has increased productivity and resulted in a positive ROI, while Wiz has helped with asset management and identifying vulnerabilities leading to better maintenance and compliance.
Comparison Results: VMware Aria Automation is the preferred option due to its extensive automation, customization, and versatility. Wiz is praised for its ability to provide context and prioritize risks, but needs improvement in preventive controls and reporting capabilities.
"The product saves a lot of time and cost for us. It has valuable features for creating a playbook."
"For repeated installations and provisioning of VMs, we now have a clear definition of what has been installed, and we can monitor all that stuff."
"The most valuable features are the Catalog View and the access control business group. Access provisioning is probably the main use case for us, so we can separate access to different Catalog items among the different business groups and have that tied back to our AD LDAP systems."
"The extensibility of the solution when it comes to writing your own ABX actions is a valuable feature. You can write it in PowerShell, JavaScript, or Python, which is great."
"VMware Aria Automation has made a lot of things easier. It has really helped the operations team to spin up the virtual machines."
"It allows some of the tenants to self-provision their machines, so they don't have to wait for us to create the machine for them."
"I used the technical support during upgrades. They came onsite and are very technical. They are very good"
"The benefits are that it gives you a heads-up display and dashboard of the way everything's running. The ability to automate around those tasks is really where we get the value."
"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 solution is very user-friendly."
"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 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 vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"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."
"7.5 is not user-friendly, in fact, it's a nightmare. They changed everything on the graphic user interface, the mode where the user interacts with the product."
"The initial setup was not straightforward. It was not simple, and we had a PoC. We had VMware help us deploy it, and it took them an exorbitant amount of time."
"The back-end has a steep learning curve."
"Technical support could be improved. I definitely feel that the product is accelerating faster than the support engineers are able to keep up with the knowledge needed to know what's going on. The developers maintaining vRealize Automation are doing a great job improving it, but VMware is not doing a great job of training the people who we call to get support for it."
"We would like them to improve the automation part. This is an upcoming area that we would like to focus on."
"Deploying and configuring the solution takes a lot of time."
"vRO can get out of sync with vRA. We've run into every once in a while."
"They could extend the ability to use vRealize Orchestrator Automation for organizations with multiple tenants. It should be easier to operate and extend different capabilities from vRealize Orchestrator. Currently, it's difficult to build advanced services in Aria Automation because you need to use the vRealize Orchestrator."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"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."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"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."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"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."
VMware Aria Automation is ranked 15th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 133 reviews while Wiz is ranked 2nd in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 11 reviews. VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator, 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 VMware Aria Automation vs. Wiz report.
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