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Wellington Franham - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Century Data
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Top 5
Oct 2, 2024
Enhanced security profiling and predictive analysis in diverse industries
Pros and Cons
  • "The granularity of visibility that the platform provides is the most valuable aspect."
  • "In Brazil, the cost is a significant issue due to the currency exchange rate."

What is our primary use case?

We are a partner and develop Wiz opportunities here in Brazil and Latin America. We already have some customers using Wiz as a DSPM platform. We use it in various industries, like retail, where it is used for security profiling and predictive analysis to identify risks. There is also a global industrial company using Wiz, but I cannot disclose its name.

How has it helped my organization?

The platform offers granularity in visibility, which is essential for understanding our risks and threats. We implement a maturity report to provide our customers with a cloud maturity idea using Wiz to identify and suggest actions to enhance their environment's resilience and availability.

What is most valuable?

The granularity of visibility that the platform provides is the most valuable aspect. It shows all details of our sources, which helps in understanding the risks and threats within the system. Additionally, the platform's integration capabilities allow us to see various operational systems through Wiz.

What needs improvement?

In Brazil, the cost is a significant issue due to the currency exchange rate. Wiz is not a cheap solution, and it is hard to prove cost efficiency to customers. While it improves security and maturity, reducing costs is challenging due to it being expensive.

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How are customer service and support?

WIZ does not have local support in Brazil. However, Century Data has an engineering team who support the initial calls with a local Knowledge base.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used SentinelOne, which is XDR and protects servers or workstations but does not offer Wiz's DSPM capabilities.

How was the initial setup?

Customers have told us that Wiz is easier to implement than Orca. Both technologies are agentless, but Wiz is simpler to deploy.

What was our ROI?

The local cost of Wiz in Brazil is high, making it difficult to achieve a significant return on investment. While it enhances security and maturity, the high cost in Brazil makes it challenging to demonstrate cost reduction.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost depends on workload, features, and modules, and it is not inexpensive. Other technologies, like Orca, a competitor, are also expensive.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I did evaluate Orca previously.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend Wiz for customers who need more maturity in their operations. It provides extensive visibility and granularity, essential for managing security and operational risks.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Security Architect/Staff Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
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Top 5Leaderboard
Nov 17, 2024
Streamlined cloud security integration with a powerful cloud-native application protection platform
Pros and Cons
  • "Wiz is a very powerful product technologically."
  • "We are still analyzing its behavior as we are in the midst of the implementation."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is related to using Wiz as a cloud-native application protection platform. We are currently in the midst of onboarding resources and streamlining the integration of Wiz.

How has it helped my organization?

It has been user-friendly, and most of the integrations and configurations are straightforward.

What is most valuable?

Wiz is a very powerful product technologically. Our requirement is related to the CNAPP solution, which is a cloud-native application protection platform. It is user-friendly, and most of the integrations and configurations are straightforward.

What needs improvement?

I have not measured certain abilities on a scale yet. The ultimate value depends on the requirements of your organization.

For how long have I used the solution?

We are still in the midst of implementing Wiz. As such, we are still analyzing its behavior.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We are still analyzing its behavior as we are in the midst of the implementation.

How are customer service and support?

We still get support for at least a month by default after implementing any tool. As of now, everything is good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

In the past, I worked with Check Point, specifically their firewall product and RaaS VeeTrail subproducts. I no longer use Check Point products as I switched my domain from network security to application security and cloud security.

How was the initial setup?

Since we are still in the midst of implementing the new solutions within our environment, it is a work in progress.

What about the implementation team?

We are currently onboarding resources and working to streamline the implementation of Wiz.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

This feedback is not based on much experience yet, as we have only conducted POV or POC.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We compared Wiz with other products, such as Orca and other industry standard solutions.

What other advice do I have?

I do not want my name or my organization's name to be reflected in any of the feedback provided.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Other
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Senior Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Feb 19, 2026
The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing, so you can understand everything quickly
Pros and Cons
  • "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 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."

What is our primary use case?

When we first purchased Wiz in 2022, our goal was to identify vulnerabilities in our cloud environment, including misconfiguration and other issues. It was also useful in identifying inactive resources that we can terminate to save money.

It also helps us automate some minor tasks that we don't want to do manually, such as forwarding issues to the appropriate teams. Wiz has various workflows to route the vulnerabilities it discovers to the right teams. We integrated it with ServiceNow, enabling us to send ServiceNow incidents to the teams. We can also send Azure DevOps work items to developers.

Fast forward to 2026 and Wiz has exploded in capabilities, and we are now leveraging it for much more than just CSPM. Specifically, we now have it scanning our GitHub and ADO repos as well as integrating directly with GitHub and Terraform Cloud for gating mechanisms. Specifically, we can define what type of behavior (IaC misconfigurations, secrets exposure, vulnerabilities) is acceptable in our environment and prevent anyone from violating that behavior. I am hoping to begin also using Wiz for drift detection and prevention.

More recently, Wiz released a unified vulnerability management (UVM) solution following their acquisition of Dazz. While this is certainly a need of ours, and while I was able to POC this within Wiz and appreciated the insights it provided, we have already signed a contract with another vendor. This is something we would like to explore in the future as Wiz matures in this area. We have also begun using CrowdStrike's cloud workload protection rather than Wiz's. This is also an area we intend to explore in the future.

How has it helped my organization?

Wiz helps us reduce and manage our issues. Six months ago, we had no idea where we had problems in the cloud. We used another tool, but we still didn't know where most of the issues were. Wiz made it so easy to see from a high level. 

Before adding any projects, it showed us all the open issues we needed to fix. It started with the big ones because Wiz groups the issues by control. For example, you can see you have 100 issues under one control, so you start by trying to fix that. We can fix these 100 issues across all accounts by fixing one control.

Maybe we can put in some guardrails or prevent people from doing something problematic using CI/CD. Wiz helps us identify issues, prioritize them, and determine which ones should be resolved globally. 

If something can't be fixed at the highest level, Wiz can automatically send it to the appropriate teams. Wiz enabled us to define a structure for routing issues to people. We add a set of AWS accounts to a project and make them owners, so automation rules can be defined to send tickets to all project owners. That functionality helps us get the tool to operate.

Wiz is like a blind spot detector. You don't know what you don't know, so all I know now is what Wiz tells me. We don't leverage any native AWS features, so we rely solely on Wiz now. We're heavily in the cloud, but we still get our feet wet with it and ensure it's set up correctly. 

Wiz was the first tool we used to determine what we should look at and fix. We are notified when people do things they shouldn't, and employees are taking more responsibility for that. People are more conscious about what they put in their AWS accounts. 

Employees know they're being monitored and are responsible for it at the end of the day. Our InfoSec team will see it and ping them about it. They'll also see it when they get a ticket for the issue that they need to fix. It helps to create a secure-by-design mindset.

Addressing blind spots gives us peace of mind because we know that what we're doing makes sense. We can implement guardrails, understand why people continue to do things wrong and discover ways to prevent the problem from happening. It helps us develop best practices.

Wiz hasn't reduced the staff we need, but it has automated many tasks. It has built-in integration with other tools we can leverage by configuring automation rules. You don't need an external automation solution or a SOAR platform because you can do everything with Wiz's native tools. 

It allowed us to decommission a cloud security tool that wasn't working well. Besides that, we haven't consolidated much because we don't have many other cloud tools. I expect a tool like Wiz could replace a traditional vulnerability scanner, like Rapid7. I prefer it over something like that. However, there will always be a use case for a traditional on-prem vault scanner for desktops, firewalls, and other hardware that doesn't have agents on it. 

We still need an endpoint detection tool and a traditional vault scanner. But if we were using other cloud security tools like Divvy and Lacework, we could have consolidated both of them into this.

What is most valuable?

The automation rules 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.  

It's easy to see what needs to be fixed, which is crucial for the other teams. We are trying to adopt a comprehensive governance approach. The security team isn't necessarily responsible for fixing the problems, but we are responsible for ensuring they get fixed. We need to route things to the infrastructure team, and it's straightforward for them to find everything on the dashboard.

Wiz lets you group AWS accounts logically into projects. We have AWS accounts associated with an application, so we create a project named after that application, and the project owners will receive any related incidents. It's easy to identify who's responsible. It requires some configuration, but it's handy. 

They have a security graph with a point-and-click interface, so you can click the resources you want to search for. If you aren't sure what you're looking for, you can click through. You open the little browser, and it says "EC2 instance." When you click on that, it populates several other options. You see that the EC2 instance has a network interface and click it. That has a public IP, so you can start granularly filtering down using the security graph. 

I can use the security graph for threat hunting and identifying resources. I can click on a virtual machine and see it has been detected. I have AWS and VMware integrated so that I can see more than just our cloud environment. It provides visibility into the VMware environment. I can drill down further based on a specific project or subscription. I can see all the VMs in a particular project if I want. If I do that on our infrastructure project, it changes the results, and now I see around 800 VMs in this project.

It helps you understand the resources associated with individual projects. You can do that at the subscription level and narrow it down. It will show you that one project uses S3 buckets and another has VMs. You can determine if assets are active or inactive. It's a valuable tool. 

They have a new inventory feature that allows you to detect and classify technologies. For example, let's say a Linux server has an FTP application installed, but we're not supposed to have those on our Linux servers. You can mark it as unwanted. Wiz has controls triggered when you classify something as an unwanted technology, so it generates incident reports for your projects based on what you've specified in the inventory. If I say FTP is undesirable, it will detect that on resources and send tickets to the appropriate teams notifying them to fix it.

I like the features for managing SLAs. You can define SLAs, set due dates, and use the security graph to see if any SLAs are due soon. I also think they do an excellent job with SSO implementation. Using SAML role mappings, we can integrate Wiz with our identity provider and set it up based on different groups. It's simpler to manage user access. We don't need to do all that manual stuff no one wants to do.

The ability to scan every layer without agents is a huge selling point because we're multi-agent. We are heading in that direction, so it's vital to have something that works that way. We use agents where necessary because we've got endpoint detection and response. We have a vulnerability scanner that isn't agent-based. Reducing the number of agents, we must maintain on servers or desktops is essential. They fall a bit short when it comes to performing on-demand scans. However, I don't think that's their goal.

I don't think Wiz wants people to come in and click "scan now." In some cases, having more frequent scanning than what they currently have would be helpful. It is a little confusing to understand which scanner does what. They have disk and data security scanners that scan buckets and a dynamic scanner that scans other things. I don't know which scanner is doing what or if they all follow the same schedule. I don't think we could use it if it weren't agentless.

What needs improvement?

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.

All the other reports look great when you try to create them. I can pull a report of issues for a specific project, but it's a CSV file with findings, which isn't helpful. I expect a slick visual summary that looks like what they have on the dashboard. They spend a lot of time making the dashboard easy to understand, but you can't get that information into a report for our executive leadership. We want to show them the trends and what we're doing. It's critical for our team to demonstrate the tool's value. At the end of the year, we have to go to a meeting and show management the progress we made this year. I can only do that by going into open issues, putting them all in notepad, and taking a couple of screenshots. 

I would also like the dashboards to be customizable. They have excellent dashboards, but you can't create or customize them. At the same time, Wiz seems open to that feedback, and I think they're relatively new. They're growing fast and implementing new features quickly, so I hope this will be added soon.

A third issue is that we can't provide email notifications on connector status. Everything comes into Wiz through a connector. Our AWS environment is added as a connector, and there's no way to notify anyone if an issue is detected. We could wake up the next morning and not have any data from our AWS cloud environment because there was an issue with the connector, but no one would've known about it. I think that's something that needs to be fixed.

Wiz has room for improvement in terms of risk assessment. It has a severity meter with five levels: critical, high, medium, low, or informational. If I click on the highs, it sorts the issues by the control with the most total issues. They're all high, but it doesn't prioritize based on anything other than the number of issues that are impacted by that control. It's not a priority. It tells you you'll get the most bang for your buck if you fix this one. There's no risk score or anything like that.

For example, if a public-facing device has a significant vulnerability, it will consider that business context and label it "critical," but that's all it does. All the severity levels have the same weight. Wiz prioritizes well in terms of sorting the issues into broad categories. However, it doesn't prioritize those. I'm looking at all the highs right now, and I don't know if one of these is more impactful to fix than the other.

It helps to have an overview showing that 103 resources will be impacted if we fix this control. We can fix the control at the global level, put guardrails around it, and prevent the issue from happening in the future. You can start thinking that way, but it doesn't tell you this is more severe than other issues in the same severity category.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Wiz since October 2022.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I've never seen Wiz go down. It sometimes loads slowly, but that hasn't happened recently.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Wiz automatically scales with you. It's seamless.

How are customer service and support?

I rate Wiz support a nine out of ten. Originally, they offered support through a chat app on their website, which was awful. They recently changed to Zendesk, which has been so much better. We also have a Slack channel with some of our account team. They've been excellent.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used Lacework, but it couldn't operationalize like Wiz, and there were a lot of false positives. We found Wiz because we needed a replacement for Lacework that provided a better idea of our cloud environment.

Wiz does a better job than Lacework. It shows you what you need to fix on the front page. Lacework didn't do that as well, and it wasn't easy to automate. Once we knew what needed to be fixed in Lacework, it was difficult to forward the issue to the appropriate team. Wiz shows you what to fix and makes it easy to fix it.

How was the initial setup?

Setting up Wiz is as straightforward as you want it to be. It's easy to set up, but there's a lot to learn, and there will be more as Wiz continues to add features. Being there from the beginning was nice because I learned all about the scanners and how they worked. 

Wiz is a SaaS solution connected to AWS, Azure, and our on-prem VMware environment in our data center. We worked with the Wiz team for the most part, but the platform is easy enough to do it yourself.

We already had Lacework, so we knew what we wanted to connect. We knew we wanted to connect our AWS and Azure cloud environments. We weren't thinking about VMware during our POC. We didn't care to add VMware. Our traditional vulnerability scanners would pick up the on-prem stuff, but they added it as an integration, so we decided to evaluate it. 

I was primarily responsible for deploying the solution, but I'm not a cloud engineer, so we called on some cloud resources to assist. If it's a one-person IT team with access to the cloud environment, they could do that on their own. I don't have access to certain things in AWS, so I needed our cloud team, which is two people, but I only worked with one of them. 

Some Wiz components require on-prem hardware. The VMware connector requires an agent-based server deployment. I deployed an EC2 instance with Docker on it, and each VMware vCenter environment requires its own agent. It was easy to set up, but some on-prem infrastructure is necessary to connect to them, get the information, and push it up to the cloud.

Though Wiz is a SaaS solution, it requires some maintenance on our side. If we have issues with the connectors, they must be fixed to ensure everything is coming in properly. If Wiz makes changes requiring additional permissions that impact the connectors or they release a new feature that requires additional permissions, we need to make some manual adjustments on our end.

What was our ROI?

We almost realized an ROI. The company only operationalized Wiz in January, even though we've had the tool for a while. We went through the POC. Then we tried to figure out the best method for implementing it and getting stuff out to our teams. I disappeared for a month because I was on paternity leave, so we've had maybe half a month where teams were addressing issues Wiz raised. Our issue count isn't increasing, and we continue to enable more rules and controls. People are starting to take accountability and proactively address issues they've seen in the ticketing system. 

I think we're reaching the point where we'll see a return on investment, and we'll be there by the end of the year. We started at the cloud level and already started implementing some of the things Wiz recommended. It might not trigger an issue on the platform, but it's one of those best practices. 

We realized value almost immediately, even during the POC. We plateaued a bit in terms of the ROI because we fixed some of the low-hanging fruit. We were like, "Okay, now what do we do?" We started creating accounts and putting them in projects. We set up the ticketing and tried to figure out where things were going. That took a few months to get going, and now we've enabled some of those. As time passes, we'll start to address some of these issues globally and hopefully implement the CI/CD stuff. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Wiz is pretty expensive. It costs more than others in the market. For example, Lacework was half as much. We didn't get as much obviously, but it was half as much. The other platform was even less than Lacework, so Wiz is at the higher end of the market.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at other tools like Ermetic. Rapid7 was actively pitching DivvyCloud to us. It's now called Insight Cloud SEC. We didn't evaluate that one though. We evaluated Ermetic but didn't do a POC. The company briefly tried them, and they didn't meet our expectations. Wiz is easier to use and navigate than the other solutions. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate Wiz a nine out of ten. I recommend evaluating it with a full POC, but be prepared to set up connectors and go through the entire process. You'll know if you like the tool within a month. Try it if you have the budget. 

If you're concerned about getting too many alerts from multiple solutions, I would say it depends on what you can consolidate. Not everything can be consolidated into Wiz. At the same time, Wiz mainly reports actual issues, and there isn't a lot of noise or false positives. Wiz will detect specific resources that might be exposing ports to the internet and trigger an issue on that. But that's by design. In some cases, you might have network resources that a firewall needs to have exposed to the internet in that way.

Wiz has accounted for everything, so you can configure it to ignore particular issues for a given resource. They've implemented a few ways to work around issues you don't want to address so you can clear from the interface and get people to focus on what's important.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Cloud Security Lead at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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Jul 11, 2024
Produces highly confidential alerts leading to minimal false positives
Pros and Cons
  • "The product's most valuable feature combines different contexts and attributes to produce highly confident alerts."
  • "They could improve the product's visibility in the internal network topology."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case for this solution is within our security team for monitoring purposes. We have integrated the solution with our cloud environments to establish notifications for security misconfigurations. These notifications create tickets for relevant teams to address the issues, and our security team ensures the tool works properly, assisting product teams with remediation and consulting on resolving the generated tickets.

What is most valuable?

The product's most valuable feature combines different contexts and attributes to produce highly confident alerts. It can detect issues based on factors like public exposure, network vulnerabilities, and privilege assignments, leading to minimal false positives and a low volume of alerts, which is highly valuable for our operations.

What needs improvement?

They could improve the product's visibility in the internal network topology. It focuses mainly on external risks, and additional visibility into internal network communication and cross-cloud or cloud-to-on-prem connectivity would be beneficial.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Wiz for almost three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is generally stable. I would rate its stability as eight or nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is highly scalable.

How are customer service and support?

Our experience with customer service and support has been positive. While initial replies are fast, the resolution time can vary depending on the issue.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used a different solution from Check Point. We decided to switch due to the additional features, capabilities, and support offered by Wiz.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward and can be completed in a few hours with the necessary permissions.

I rate the process an eight.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Based on the features and capabilities, the product pricing seems reasonable.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Wiz a nine out of ten. 

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Sr. Manager AVP - Vuln Management and Threat Intelligence at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
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Mar 23, 2023
Cloud security posture management, visibility, comprehensiveness, depth, and agentless connectivity without any impact to your environment is an absolute no brainer when it comes to reducing risk.
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is very user-friendly."
  • "The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I lead and manage our vulnerability management and threat intelligence program so relying on having quick visibility, coverage, comprehensiveness, and depth is an absolute benefit; Wiz agentless deployment and scaling give us that quick use CVE-based vulnerability scanning, detection, continuous monitoring, threat intelligence, and risk prioritization with little to no downtime or impact to availability. Lastly, the CSPM, threat-intelligence, and dashboard capability within Wiz gives leadership quick and efficient reporting on our overall risk in the cloud.

How has it helped my organization?

I believe the genius of Wiz is that, as we move towards a more zero-trust approach to cybersecurity, we can avoid using agents, which can be intrusive and difficult to manage. Furthermore, granting an agent full read rights access to our endpoint is not always the most secure, least privileged approach. I appreciate how Wiz can take a snapshot, scan it, and deliver results without affecting our workloads. Working with Wiz is great because it eliminates the need for staging and production environments. When we can't pick a snapshot-like reproduction environment right away, it does not have any impact.

We went from 1,000 to 10,000 employees after merging with a large company and purchasing another. Prior to this, it was like the Wild West. With Wiz, we were able to set up quickly and have visibility into our cloud workloads and environment. This has been incredibly helpful in reducing our attack surface and allowing us to prioritize risks. Wiz significantly lowered our risk and caused little to no disruption which is quite amazing.

It is extremely important for our organization to have visibility into our risk detection with a contextual view for prioritizing potential critical risks. When companies try to approach this single pane of glass from a risk perspective, it is essential to be able to share this information with stakeholders and non-technical people, such as the president, CFO, or other C-level personnel. I believe it is possible to share our cloud posture and risk overall within a five-minute presentation.

With the deep coverage and visibility that Wiz provides, we need more resources. It's clear that we have a lot of issues to address and we need to be careful and strategic in how we roll out solutions so that we don't overwhelm the business. Wiz has been helpful in determining our needs and getting us the resources and people we need.

Remediation is currently a manual process. Because the automation workflow within the tool is lacking, we have a remediation webinar to help. I still recommend and suggest that Wiz build it within the tool itself and not depend on manual processes. I have created an SOP to review and share findings, but it is a tedious process and can take up a lot of time. We are not yet in an optimized automated state and the tool and procedure are not there yet. However, Wiz does help and I have set up projects to help with organization and remediation workflow. The security personnel I work with have been pleased with the results, as I can provide a link to the issue and we can review it together. I usually have biweekly remediation calls and internal SLAs to track the ticket creation of the finding to when it is remediated. I find it useful to use that feature within the solution. Wiz allows us to go into the issue and assign a due date, which is very helpful. It would be great to have our own remediation board within Wiz, more like a dashboard.

What is most valuable?

There are many different features within Wiz that are valuable in their own right. I believe the best features are cloud security posture management, threat intelligence, and risk prioritization. This combination is my favorite aspect of Wiz. There are very few false positives. Wiz does an excellent job of leveraging their threat intelligence and distinguishing issues from findings to prioritize their risk. Having threat intelligence as part of our overall cloud posture management, cloud configurations, CVEs, and CWEs helps to prioritize our inherent and residual risk to the business. Wiz does not try to make actions overly complex, so even a non-technical person can take a webinar and understand the basics of how it works. The solution is very user-friendly.

I like the security graph feature, and being able to start with a dashboard. I am a fan of drilling into the dashboard, and I love how the solution handles different technologies. If we go to Wiz's inventory, they have their work, visibility, and coverage of technologies, as well as how they prioritize external exposures, cloud entitlements, containers, overall vulnerabilities, malware findings, and so on.
I really appreciate the visibility and the way the security graph lays out the risks. When we join the security graph, we can get very detailed and granular information. I like how I can drill into an issue, for example, if I want to look at a critical finding. I can look up fields in my query for all the hits and interact with the security graph and those expressions easily. It's a very digital footprint, root cause analysis type of interaction. I like that element of the security graph. We can get very specific, elaborate, and add to it. Whether we just want to look at the security graph level or drill into the issue specifically, it gives us a detailed footprint of the attack. It's pretty cool.

What needs improvement?

Wiz is trying to get into File Integrity Monitoring and it would be nice to set up what they call 'alert profiles' in their dashboard. For instance, if they had a threshold of a hundred images or files within a Docker container, image, or files within a particular workload that has been deleted within one minute, this could be an Indicator of a compromise of ransomware or something else. We typically don't think of this in the cloud, but the same rules apply as they would on-premise. It would be beneficial for Wiz to expand into this space and set up alert profiles for thresholds that indicate areas of compromise.

The remediation workflow within Wiz could be improved. For example, Rapid7 has done this well with InsightVM, which they call goals, SLAs, and projects in their remediation workflow. It would be beneficial to have a remediation tab that focuses on the visibility and coverage of findings, as well as an automated remediation workflow. This would save time, as it would not require creating tickets in Jira or going to another place. If these two can be done, it will be very helpful for the user, the person administering the tool, and the developers who need to fix the findings and issues.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Wiz for almost one year. Six months of that was proof of concept, and now in my current role, four to five months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not encountered any issues with Wiz since I have been here, and it remained stable with no downtime or changes required. I give the stability a ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I am a great admirer of scalability. Wiz scales very well. The only potential obstacle to perfect scalability is probably in the remediation workflow space. The product's availability is excellent. The scalability is almost there. However, by focusing on the remediation automation workflow, goals, SLAs, and projects, we can get Wiz to scale quite well. I give the scalability a nine out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good. The only improvement I would suggest is that Wiz should make their information more publicly accessible, rather than requiring users to have a console account in order to access the portal. This can be an extra step for SREs who do not need to use the tool but still need to access the documentation. It would be helpful to have public documentation that can be accessed by anyone associated with the domain.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

At my previous company, I used Aquasec and Prisma. When I joined my current organization, they were using Wiz.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup could not be more straightforward. 

We saw the value of Wiz right away. We had onboarded a company we had purchased within three weeks and set up Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes connectors, and BS connectors. We also created a staging environment and a production environment. I was working with SRE to manage posture and address CV-based vulnerabilities that we were seeing. Thankfully, Wiz had a great zero-trust approach and the solution was really good.

The deployment was completed by myself, an SRE engineer, and an SME from Wiz.

We have three different business units. Within those three business units, we have 341 containerized application endpoints. Our next step is to get these onboarded into Wiz, which will be a big project due to the number of applications and workloads. For Prism, the resources we have for both Azure and AWS for our core applications and Namely are all set and ready to go.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation was completed in-house.

What was our ROI?

Now, with any organization, security is a cost center. However, with the model I suggested, we turn our global cybersecurity team into a service model. This is one of the service offerings we have for our cloud environments. The return on investment is not just a cost to the business, but rather, we provide visibility and coverage of the risk and its potential impact. If this particular issue became a security incident, it would have an operational and financial impact. Ultimately, who is the cost center? By providing a cybersecurity service internally to our customers, we can show them the return on investment. This is not just a cost, but a way to improve our overall security posture. We often say in security, "It's not if, it's when a breach happens." Therefore, it is important to be proactive rather than reactive, which will bring a return on the investment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I wish the pricing was more transparent. We are in the discovery phase of onboarding other business units and looking at what our pricing looks like. Wiz is agentless and goes based on our projects and resources, so it is good in terms of pricing compared to others. There is room for improvement on our pricing models, so it would be nice if Wiz could share the price beforehand rather than onboarding and then having pricing based on utilization. Despite this, the pricing is fair given the capabilities and features that Wiz offers, as competitors are not doing this at the same level yet.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Aqua Cloud Security Posture Management. In an effort to achieve a single pane of glass, Wiz is the closest to doing that, which is a difficult task. Wiz does this through their security portfolio. Cisco also accomplished this with Cisco SecureX, a unified dashboard and single pane of glass.

Wiz has done a great job of being transparent about their roadmap and capabilities. They are not over-promising on delivery, which is important. In contrast, Aqua had a single pane of glass, but they moved on from one feature or module that wasn't perfected before moving on to something else, resulting in issues. Wiz does a good job of balancing the need to make money in the market and keep up with the times. Wiz is taking a slow and steady approach to winning the race. This is a major difference compared to other solutions. Additionally, Wiz's risk prioritization and user-friendly interface are impressive. From a design perspective, Wiz is trying to keep things as simple and organized as possible, which is very much appreciated by someone managing and running the tool for a vulnerability management program.

What other advice do I have?

I give Wiz a nine out of ten. If Wiz can figure out the remediation workflow, I would put the solution close to a ten out of ten.

Although we are not able to consolidate tools with Wiz yet, the solution is getting there. It is on Wiz's roadmap. We will deprecate our SaaS and SCA offerings once Wiz rolls that ability out by the end of the year.

Very rarely do people truly conduct a thorough proof of concept. Analysts from Gartner or Forrester may not fully understand individual environments, as each one is unique. To get a better understanding, we need to compare side-by-side, setting up Prisma, Aqua, and Wiz. It will become clear how Wiz is a leader in the space, both from a technical standpoint and from a high-level view. Additionally, other solutions often lack up-to-date documentation, whereas Wiz takes documentation seriously and has excellent documents and revisions. Furthermore, Wiz's portal is user-friendly and prioritizes risk, making it stand out from its competitors.

With any solution, we want to conduct a health check. We schedule health checks with Wiz every six months to ensure the solution is well maintained.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

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CyberSecurity Sr Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
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Jun 3, 2024
Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead
Pros and Cons
  • "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."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

The Primary use cases are within cloud security posture management, in which we identify misconfigurations and any type of what they call "toxic combinations" of risk and vulnerabilities that are affecting our cloud deployments.

In the last year we have enabled DSPM and expanded on CIEM use cases. 

In addition to the agentless functionality, we have deployed the Wiz Sensor and enabled Admission Controller in our Kubernetes workloads. 

How has it helped my organization?

We don't consider Wiz just a cyber security tool. What we have done is opened up the visibility to our cloud users. Now, our cloud users are able to see for themselves what is affecting their assets. It helps enable a shared model of responsibility for security. With the visibility that Wiz enables, our users are no longer receiving a report in the form of a spreadsheet. They're able to quickly see and navigate, and drill into anything, if they need to, to see what is affecting their environments. 

Now that we have given them visibility into what's running in production, through some of the capabilities available in Wiz, we are investing in how we can shift things and identify some of those issues earlier in the pipeline so that they don't have to worry about things after going to production.

In addition, the fact that Wiz is agentless and that it's leveraging APIs to give us visibility at the organizational or the account level, are factors that have definitely reduced some of the overhead that come with other technologies that use agents to attain the same results.

Another benefit is that it consolidates tools. We now have one tool that is capable of giving us vulnerabilities, not just on modern services or cloud-ready services, but also on traditional instances in which we would have been using an agent to be able to pull the information we need. The fact that Wiz is agentless and is capable of looking at traditional compute as well as modern compute has reduced the need for additional tools that are agent-based.

What is most valuable?

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 fact that it's able to reveal those toxic combinations has been really key for us in prioritizing what to fix first.

Having visibility with a contextual view for prioritizing potentially critical risks has been quite important. Especially in the cloud, it's no longer about applying a particular patch or applying particular updates to address a CVE. It's more about, for example, how a combination of a misconfiguration with the fact that it's externally facing allows us to prioritize that to be addressed first. There's a higher risk for an externally facing asset that has a vulnerability with, potentially, a service account that has high privileges. We're able to say, "Hey, we need to fix that first," and not worry so much about a compute engine that might be vulnerable, but is still protected by some other security controls that are in place. Knowing where we gain the most value, from a security perspective, and where we can reduce the most risk, has been a critical piece of our adoption of Wiz.

The solution's Security Graph has been key as well. One of the things that Wiz provides is out-of-the-box dashboards, but the Security Graph allows us to pinpoint things by creating custom reports to target specific vulnerabilities. We have multiple use cases in which we can target, for example 

  • a subscription ID that we are after, and that we are trying to prioritize for remediation
  • if a particular CVE is part of our environment. 

Through the Security Graph, we're able to quickly determine those types of things. It also enables us to start looking at our assets and our inventory. It's almost human-readable. I don't have to write any type of RQL code. Rather, it allows me to quickly select, through the UI, the pieces that I'm interested in and build a report or query for it.

In addition, the automated attack path analysis is one of the factors that we use when we're prioritizing where we should focus first in our remediation. Understanding any type of lateral movement within an attack path helps us determine the type of urgency involved, as we try to prioritize what to address first. It has been very important in detecting assets that we consider valuable and quickly identifying if they are well protected.

What needs improvement?

Something that we're starting to look into is identifying vulnerabilities for which we potentially need to delay the remediation. 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 don't have remediation prevention capabilities available through Wiz. 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.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been using Wiz for almost 4 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is pretty stable. We initially had some problems with timeouts, but they addressed them and the platform has been quite stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not had any problems with being able to scale to meet our demands.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not have a previous solution for the cloud.

How was the initial setup?

It was straightforward. We did it in partnership with Wiz.

We have it deployed across multiple public clouds and it's deployed at the organization level. All of our application teams and our 250-plus cloud users are able to see the data through Wiz.

We started with one FTE on Wiz and, since then, we have grown the team to three FTEs. 

In terms of maintenance, no solution is perfect. We have been able to identify issues on the platform and to engage support to either address the bugs and issues that we see, or to enable a feature enhancement for a particular use case.

What was our ROI?

We have seen ROI from Wiz and we continued to see value in Wiz. Although we have been using Wiz for close to two years, one of the key items that we are still driving is adoption. The more cloud users that adopt the tool, the more value we gain from it. We still continue to see value added. 

In terms of immediate benefits, the first major benefit was asset management. We got a better understanding of the type of workloads or services that were being run in our cloud. The second benefit was around vulnerabilities. Wiz quickly proved that a lot of our application teams were not following best practices related to patching. We were able to quickly tell a story: although you are using a modern service in the form of a container, you are not maintaining the container image in a way that prevents vulnerabilities.

One of the main values that we see is that as a SaaS platform, Wiz continues to deploy new features. As those new features are enabled, more value is being gained by us and by our community.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I believe they're moving to a different licensing model. We are still grandfathered to the initial pricing models. What I do like is that the pricing seems pretty simple. We don't have to do a lot of calculations to figure out what the components are. They do it by enabling specific features, either basics or advanced, which makes it easy to select. But I'll have to see how the new pricing model will work for us.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Aqua Cloud Security Posture Management, Prisma Cloud, and Orca Security. Wiz seems to be more user-friendly. It enables a user to quickly identify risks with minimal intervention. That was definitely a positive factor and a welcome one because it's less hands-on than some of the other tools.

Also, the fact that Wiz is able to see and contextualize multiple components or issues, provides a richer way of looking at risk. It takes into account not just a particular vulnerability that is CVE-driven, but also items like misconfigurations, over-privileged service accounts, and other factors that help us better prioritize our risk.

What other advice do I have?

Initially, there was unplanned work when our cloud owners saw the risks in their environments. But because we were prioritizing what needed to be fixed first, they were able to utilize existing staff resources to address those vulnerabilities. We were not just trying to patch or fix something that might be low risk. Rather, we were always trying to identify where our critical issues were and address those first.

If you're looking at Wiz but are concerned that your existing products already give you a lot of alerts, I would ask about your journey to the cloud and what you're focusing on. Are you mainly focusing on what I call CVEs and patching? Or are you looking into other areas like compliance and identity and access management pieces? If you are, then Wiz is definitely the right choice. It has to be driven based on that journey to the cloud. Visibility, once deployed, is one thing, and visibility prior to deployment is another thing. You should have a good understanding of what your requirements are and where you see the value of addressing any type of risk that is introduced into your environment.

Understand what is important to you. Are you more focused on the CSPM features that are available through Wiz? Are you more focused on cloud infrastructure entitlements that are available through Wiz? Are you looking to remove existing agents that could create overlap, and how does that fit into your roadmap? Understanding your requirements for the type of information that you want to see out of the tool is going to be critical to understanding your use cases, and how your community is engaged with those use cases, regardless of how easy the tool is to integrate. Those are factors that are going to be vital to your success.

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Project Manager at Hilti
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May 28, 2024
An agentless cloud assets vulnerability scanner which akes snapshots and then scans

What is our primary use case?

Wiz is an agentless cloud assets vulnerability scanner. You don't need to install anything to use any of the machines. It takes snapshots and then scans it. It is interesting because all other scanners need to install some agent.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution is designed to be agentless. This approach saves bandwidth and other resources. Nobody needs to report anything or send packages to the backend. Everything operates as a SaaS solution. They perform snapshots and alerting, converting the data into metadata, which they then analyze and return. Thus, the SaaS solution handles the entire process without requiring additional effort from us.

What is most valuable?

Wiz is a very powerful and easy-to-use tool. It's highly customizable, allowing us to manage many custom features effectively.

What needs improvement?

You need to enter numbers manually. Now, everyone has to press to proceed. Wiz still requires managing all the numbers on the web page. Wiz could enhance API integration with ServiceNow and Jira

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Wiz for six months.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?


How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward and takes two to three weeks to complete.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Wiz is quite expensive. However, having a comprehensive view of your cloud environment is essential. On-premises systems are much easier to track, but managing numerous instances in the cloud requires enhanced visibility.

We are paying 250k per year.

For our business case, we needed Wiz to meet regulatory requirements and quickly identify public exposure vulnerabilities, such as publicly accessible instances or resources. This information immediately helps prevent vulnerabilities within your business environment, providing a cybersecurity advantage. While this doesn't translate to direct financial benefits, it helps prevent potential breaches and escalations, which is invaluable. Like other security tools, Wiz incurs a cost, but its value lies in enhanced security rather than financial gain.

What other advice do I have?

Wiz's scanning and detection capabilities can identify vulnerabilities potentially affecting the cloud or exposure. It's not solely focused on database issues. It performs various tasks effectively. The categorization is excellent, the dashboards are informative, and the reporting features are robust. Additionally, you can create highly customizable reports.

Everything works using a CI/CD pipeline, which is very good because every DevOps engineer can manage it by simply creating some code around the message request. Wiz works fine and is fully compliant with CI/CD. The workflow and the tasks align with industry standards.

We can configure any compliance framework for checking with Wiz. For example, you can select frameworks such as GDPR, AWS Fundamentals, and CI/CD. You can configure the tool based on the recommendations provided by these frameworks. If your company has specific requirements, like allowing an 8-character password while the state requires 12 characters, you can customize the settings accordingly. Wiz will then assess compliance based on these customized parameters, and if everything meets the set criteria, it will confirm that you are compliant.

You have everything in one dashboard. The dashboard and reports are quite literally perfect. Since everything is in one dashboard, you can customize the reports to show only the columns you want to see. For example, you can exclude low-risk items so you don't get notifications about low-risk issues that do not impact your compliance status.

Wiz has some AI features for consolidation, but it's not customizable. What VMware offers is similar, but there's not much to choose between. You either have a batch compliance agreement, or you don't. Wiz's framework complies with requirements, or it doesn't. It's a vulnerability management tool similar to Kangaroo but with better AI documentation features. You can ask questions about how to do something, and the AI will provide the relevant information. This feature is built into the system.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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VP Information Security at boxed.com
Real User
Mar 28, 2023
Enables us to quickly identify the problem, solution, and how severe the issue is
Pros and Cons
  • "The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
  • "The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution as our cloud security platform.

We use Wiz across all of our GCP environments. We have approximately nine projects, around five thousand instances, and five thousand containers. As for AWS, it is relatively small; it consists of a few VPCs with around five hundred assets.

How has it helped my organization?

Wiz is the only security solution we use for our cloud platform. It scans data activity, potential exposures, and any efforts with overly wide permissions, especially when they involve semi-exposed ports of sensitive data. Wiz also tracks vulnerabilities, including zero-day vulnerabilities, and logs. We are taking advantage of the security graph and all its features to make it easier to track security across the board.

Wiz's ability to scan every layer of our cloud environment without any agents is why we have the ease of deployment that we can provide on the order level and view all the products, giving us a lot of value and immediate return on investment. Agents are required for certain use cases, such as blocking features or taking action immediately if something is not right, but we did not have that requirement. We created workflows to identify where the action is needed and integrated them with our ticketing system to assign appropriate urgency tickets, so the right team can work on it immediately.

Automated attack path analysis has been beneficial to us by helping us to identify what needs to be done when a vulnerability is discovered. It allows us to trace the attack paths from a potential point of exposure to the vulnerability and how it can be exploited. We can also determine how to mitigate the vulnerability, which is of great value from a remediation perspective.

Within the first two weeks of the deployment, we were able to limit all of our security issues in our production environment. We had been using another platform, but it lacked ease of use and we were not able to get all the details we needed. We replaced this solution with Wiz, and it allowed us to take action when an alert came in. We were able to drill down to the root cause and with the knowledge base that comes with it, we were able to fix issues and get rid of all our security issues. This was a huge value.

Having visibility into our risk detection with a contextual view to prioritize potentially critical risks is very important, as we do not have a large security or development team. If we were to receive twenty alerts, we would not have the capacity to address them all at once. Knowing the context of how this would impact the organization is of great value, as it allows us to tackle the most critical issues based on external exposure, exploitable areas, and the type of data behind the vulnerability. This context helps us prioritize, as all risks are not equal.

Wiz has helped us reduce blind spots in our restriction capabilities by 100 percent. We were running a tool that scanned for vulnerabilities, but we did not have an external exposure component or any context for it. We had just deployed the DSPM and were not able to look at many past levels. The tool we were using previously was just one ready assessment tool. Wiz adds a lot of value.

Additionally, since we have both e-commerce and SaaS, it is important for us to be compliant and isolated. Wiz makes this very easy as we are a hundred percent cloud-based. We can review our compliance and see all the efforts running in our cloud environment. If there are any controls that are not compliant with ISO software, we have set up learning on that and integrated it with IT and some tooling. This allows whoever needs to take action for their control to do so immediately, ensuring that we stay compliant.

I have limited resources in my department, but if I wasn't utilizing Wiz and used our old solution, I would need to acquire two to three more resources. Therefore, with Wiz, I can do all of the above with the existing resources instead of bringing on more tools and personnel.

What is most valuable?

The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution. I compared Wiz to two other products that we were sending to other clients for cloud security. We were able to get Wiz installed within a couple of hours for all of our cloud assets and we could see insights into our security posture within a couple of hours of the installation. Our DevOps team was very excited to see what they needed to work on. We addressed all the critical issues within two weeks of installing the solution.

What needs improvement?

The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day. We need to educate our auditors and ensure that scans are done more than once a day. If there is a vulnerability that is exposed, we can update it after the scan. We are currently scanning once a day, which is acceptable for UCSB. We are trying to figure out how to increase the frequency of the scans, as some universities do not wait a day before they know if something is exposed. Knowing earlier is always better.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not seen any outages with Wiz. The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Wiz is our e-commerce platform. That means we have approximately five hundred million impressions on our website per month, with around four million users.

This solution is very scalable; if I add resources to new accounts, they are automatically monitored. When adding a new account, no additional action is required; we don't even need to consider capacity, as it is already maximized.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, we had an agent-based solution called Rapid7 which would alert us of any issues it identified. However, due to the outdated hardware, there was no context to the alerts, and we were overwhelmed. When I joined nine months ago, I noticed that the tool was being ignored and was a waste of money. Therefore, I began searching for a more effective solution that would provide context-based results without needing additional resources. We wanted something that would address real issues and provide five actionable alerts a day, with maximum outbound action taken if necessary. This is why we decided to switch to Wiz and discontinue the vulnerability assessment and API moderator tools.

How was the initial setup?

Implementing Wiz was really easy - it took us less than two hours and could have been done in half an hour if we hadn't needed to run three scripts. We were able to enable it on the cloud and view the scripts. From a user perspective, we set up SSO for our engineers and integrated it with Jira and ServiceNow. Everything else was automated, including compliance controls and processes. We had two sessions with our customer service management team to learn how to investigate critical issues, exposures, and secrets stored in files. All in all, it took about a week to process, integrate, and get the platform running.

The initial setup was straightforward; we used the CAD tooling to run the scripts and followed the steps. We examined the scripts and used the original commands to implement Wiz, which took us about two hours. We had three people from the CA team, two people from the DevOps team, and one Wiz details engineer. From the implementation perspective, we had a DevOps engineer, a studio engineer, and a Wiz details engineer.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation was completed in-house by our presales engineer and my DevOps engineer.

What was our ROI?

We have definitely seen a return on investment with Wiz. There are multiple ways that we are seeing this. Firstly, Wiz simplifies the process as we are now using one tool instead of two or three. Secondly, compliance is much easier as we can now get in-depth monitoring of controls from an ISO or software perspective. This would have previously required a full-time resource. Additionally, we now have more coverage with external exposure, cloud entitlements, vulnerability management, and malware detection. All of this is being managed with only one-quarter of a resource, whereas if we were to do all the same things without Wiz, we would have needed to add at least two team members and several different tools. This has resulted in a large return on investment, as we now have to keep up with software and ISO certification.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost of the other solutions is comparable to Wiz. We have credits that we can use for whatever features we need. We bought more than we needed because I wanted a customer success manager dedicated to our account. We have meetings with them every week and they help us with our roadmap and site plan. We bought more credits to make up for the minimum buy-in, but it still didn't exceed our budget. We got results with Wiz immediately; we installed it and met our goal during the four-week trial.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

When we began searching for a replacement for Rapid7, we looked at Wiz, Lacework, and Datadog Security. After trying all three, we decided to settle with Wiz.

What other advice do I have?

I give the solution a ten out of ten.

My self-management team is very cooperative. We have a set plan with them, and they help us to determine what the next steps should be. We have implemented certain items, and then they come back and suggest new features for us to consider. They educate us on how to take advantage of these features.

Prioritization based on the context is a big help. It helps us know what some of the tools we are using are and which ones are our production instances versus non-production instances where we don't have production data. If I have ten critical issues and only half a team member works on those issues, it's important that we know which one can cause the most damage and fix that first. 

I suggest running a trial of Wiz. It won't take much to set up the trial. We don't need to dedicate a team to implement it. Run a trial on one account and people will see the value right away. The ease of implementation and immediate insights will be noticed. Compare Wiz with other solutions to see if you are getting the same type of intelligence, contacts, space, and the whole path from service to underlying vulnerability or exposed secrets. 

Wiz can do what it would normally take us three tools to accomplish. The best thing to do is run a trial and the number of resources needed will be minimal. It's a one-day engagement and we can evaluate Wiz within two weeks of implementing it.

We have a stress manager and an engineer assigned to our account by Wiz, who are both very responsive. So far, we have not had to open a ticket for support.

The main reason to use Wiz is that its cloud security posture management makes it very easy to identify issues such as vulnerabilities, exposure, and exempted permissions. This helps us maintain best practices for our cloud environment and quickly identify risks. Without Wiz, we would need to use multiple tools and correlate the data to pinpoint the issue, then require a few engineers to work out a solution. With Wiz, we can quickly identify the problem, the solution, and how severe the issue is. This adds a great deal of value.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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AWS Cloud Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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Top 20
Jul 30, 2024
Provides simplicity, comprehensive findings, and impressive security graph
Pros and Cons
  • "Wiz offers greater visibility and more in-depth findings in terms of configuration, misconfiguration, and vulnerabilities."
  • "The APIs are currently quite limited and not very mature, which makes integration with Splunk difficult."

What is our primary use case?

We currently use Wiz for cloud security management to identify and address vulnerabilities in our AWS platforms. Wiz is also integrated with our EKS clusters, allowing us to monitor and manage cluster security. We deploy sensors across our infrastructure, from the base level to more advanced setups, to gather comprehensive vulnerability data. Additionally, Wiz helps us manage our inventory and images. We have integrated Wiz with our ECR to monitor and secure container images through the ECR connector.

How has it helped my organization?

Our main goal is to use Wiz as our secondary product. We aim to gather all logs and vulnerabilities and integrate them into our main tool, Splunk. Wiz helps us identify issues, but Splunk remains our primary solution. We forward all logs from Wiz to Splunk. The client, Vericore, uses Splunk as their main tool to gather data from third-party CSPM tools like Prisma and others, including DDoS detection. This integration allows us to generate reports and distribute them to other departments to address the identified vulnerabilities.

What is most valuable?

Wiz offers greater visibility and more in-depth findings in terms of configuration, misconfiguration, and vulnerabilities.

What needs improvement?

The APIs are currently quite limited and not very mature, which makes integration with Splunk difficult. As a result, we often have to use Wiz instead of our mainframe to handle tasks related to Splunk. We regularly meet with the Wiz team, who then consult their product team to find solutions and alternative methods for these tasks.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Wiz for six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We don't have any issues with the scalability. 45-50 users are using this solution.

We have multiple departments, including product security and sales. We have development teams and other departments as well. For each senior and director in these departments, we have created users and provided them with access to Wiz. This allows them to gather reports from Wiz. Additionally, if they cannot get the reports from Wiz, they can use Splunk, with which we have integrated Wiz.

We have deployed Wiz in three organizations on AWS, each with approximately 70 to 80 accounts, totaling more than 120 accounts. We have also deployed Wiz in Microsoft environments, ensuring we can gather data from every platform.

How are customer service and support?

Support has been great. We have a dedicated channel with Wiz and are always in communication with them.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was very straightforward. We used the deployment connectors in Wiz. We deployed three connectors for our AWS environment, and each connector requires specific roles: Wiz rules and read-only roles. The deployment was done using the CloudFormation template through our management account, and we deployed the template to all the accounts in the organization.

The deployment took no more than 48 hours because it was done easily. However, the setup to get all the data from AWS into Wiz took about 24-48 hours.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We use Splunk for DDoS detection and the AWS Security Data Lake for micro detections. We use Wiz for cloud platform configuration. For threat detection, we rely on the AWS Security Data Lake and Splunk.

What other advice do I have?

We use Wiz to enhance our cloud security, and as a result, the number of vulnerabilities has gone down. We have integrated Jira authentication with Wiz to create tickets. We have set up rules in Wiz that generate tickets for misconfigurations. These tickets are sent to the respective departments that own the accounts with the identified vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Our security team pushes these tickets to the relevant teams, enhancing security. 

Integration and deployment are relatively easy. However, we have encountered some incidents with Wiz in the past. As Wiz mentioned, some policies included in the connectors were flagging our production EBS in AWS. 

Maintenance is very easy.

I recommend Wiz for its simplicity, comprehensive findings, and impressive security graph. It provides excellent visibility, threat detection, and data classification rules. Additionally, Wiz offers more control compared to Prisma and other third-party tools.

Overall, I rate the solution at eight-point five out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
PeerSpot user
CISO at a retailer with 11-50 employees
Real User
Jun 24, 2024
Helps us consolidate and manage information and risks, dividing them between VPCs and business units
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of Wiz is that it keeps information up to date without needing to perform scans or schedule maintenance windows. It provides a fresh snapshot of our vulnerability metrics."
  • "The reporting should be improved because until a few months ago, the reports were only in CSV format, which made it difficult to clean up. Wiz tried to improve the reporting process, but it's not as valuable as Tenable."

What is our primary use case?

We use Wiz in our cloud security management by connecting it to our main cloud environment and other multi-cloud solutions. It helps us consolidate and manage information and risks, dividing them between VPCs and business units. Wiz keeps all information up-to-date and helps us identify any toxic connections within our cloud implementations.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Wiz is that it keeps information up to date without needing to perform scans or schedule maintenance windows. It provides a fresh snapshot of our vulnerability metrics. It also helps us make decisions on improvements, maintenance, or updates for our systems. Regarding compliance and governance, Wiz streamlines our vulnerability management to meet specific needs effectively.

What needs improvement?

The reporting should be improved because until a few months ago, the reports were only in CSV format, which made it difficult to clean up. Wiz tried to improve the reporting process, but it's not as valuable as Tenable.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have experience of using Wiz for more than a year.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Wiz was quite scalable and easy to manage initially. However, as the solution became more costly with our growth, it posed some challenges. We had to work on managing costs and scaling according to our needs, which required some effort, but we were able to find a balance in terms of pricing and performance.

How are customer service and support?

It is difficult to get in touch with them initially. We had to get in touch every for our queries related to AWS and GCP marketplaces. However, once you need to discuss numbers, they are very responsive. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have worked with Tenable and Qualys. Wiz stands out in deployment ease and resource consumption compared to Qualys or Tenable. Its simplified processes and snapshot features make it a preferred choice.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy. We need to key details, therefore setting up Wiz very easily. It’s easier than Tenable, which requires deploying infrastructure and handling the associated costs. Deploying Wiz took about one month due to our multi-cloud services, but the main cloud service took less than a week.

Wiz requires no maintenance since it is a SaaS, but if we need to deploy a new service or have any issues, the technical support is really helpful without additional costs. Once integrated, it is very easy to maintain.

What about the implementation team?

We took help from an external account manager and a technical account manager from Wiz. Our team consisted of three people: a DevOps engineer, a TechOps engineer, and the person responsible for the implementation.

What was our ROI?

Using Wiz has significantly reduced our costs compared to having three separate solutions. We estimate a cost reduction of around 35% to 50%, or even more, due to consolidating our security management into one platform. This operational impact has been one of the most significant benefits we've experienced with Wiz.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Regarding pricing, it’s more than $100k because we have a very big infrastructure. Our environment supports around three thousand people, and we offer business-to-client financial services to around one million clients, so we rely heavily on Wiz.

What other advice do I have?


I'd recommend Wiz, especially if reporting improvements are made.  I rate Wiz an episode ght out of ten primarily due to reporting challenges.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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