Item: Wiz
Rating: 9
Author: Amit Levran

Overall Satisfaction with Wiz

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Wiz to monitor our AWS environment for misconfiguration, threats, irregular activity, changes in posture and user activity. In addition we rely on Wiz findings to optimize our compliance posture and make sure that we continue to maintain a strong and manageable security operation. Wiz is our go-to tool and every day starts with a review of the Wiz dashboards.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Analyze and alert about system misconfiguration
Identify sensitive data that is stroed on our system
Create a risk mapping that takes into account not only one parameter but the entire risk scope e.g an exposed server + it is housing sensitive data AND it has a known and exploitable vulnerability
Dashboards to consolidate the findings

Cons

We would like to see more system events such as cloudtrail events in Wiz, the current set of events is very limited and missing many key events
Mobile app

Return on Investment

Improved security
Cost Savings
Better communication inside te organization

Via an agentless, API-centered approach, Wiz is designed to be rolled out in minutes to easily scan workloads and get full visibility into cloud environments. Please describe your experience with this aspect of the product.

Exactly as stated, Wiz is easy to install and provides meaningful insights in a matter of hours.

Wiz leverages a security graph at the core of the product that is designed to accurately detect and define security risks. How does your company utilize the Wiz security graph for risk assessment?

The security graph is the core of Wiz's product, it takes a while to get used to but once you understand how it works you can't go back and begin relying on it on a daily basis

Usability

Usability and UI are two of Wiz's key features and what differentiates Wiz from other tools, its easy to use and understand and does not require advanced training to obtain value from the system

Alternatives Considered

Tenable Cloud Security, IBM Guardium and Orca Cloud Security Platform

The overall set of features and capabilities as well as the UI tilted the decision towards Wiz

Key Insights

Do you think Wiz delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Wiz's feature set?

Yes

Did Wiz live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Wiz go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Wiz again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Scytale, CrowdStrike Falcon

Likelihood to Recommend

Wiz is great when you are looking to get both high level AND in depth visibility into your system configuration and risks, the system usability is second to none, the UI is simple, support is great and they keep adding useful features to the system.
Wiz is less of a fit when it comes to investigations given the limited set of events it collects from audit logs

Wiz Feature Ratings

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Easy to use and provides tangible value from the first day