Factual Product Summary
Agentless CNAPP solution providing CSPM, CWPP vulnerability scanning, CIEM entitlement management, and data security posture management (DSPM).
Exceptional speed-to-value due to 100% agentless API onboarding; identifies combinational risk without agent deployment friction.
Documented Capabilities & Sourced Claims
Every claim is checked against official engineering documentation or compliance reports.
Zero-agent VM disk snapshot scanning analyzes OS and application state with zero impact on workload runtime
Audited Capability Specifications
Structured criteria validated against official vendor documentation for buyer comparison.
Supported cloud security postures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
Support for API-based, read-only VM disk snapshot and container scanning without agents.
Scanning Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, and ARM templates in CI/CD.
Real-time kernel or eBPF-based container and serverless workload threat detection.
Official Sources & References
Deployment & Specifications
- Deployment Models
- 100% Agentless Cloud SaaS
- Supported Platforms
- AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes
- Customer Segments
- Enterprise, High-Growth Tech, Mid-Market
- Service Geography
- Global
- Plan Limitations & Prerequisites
- Requires read-only IAM role permissions and KMS key access for EBS/disk volume snapshot inspection across enrolled cloud accounts.
Pricing Transparency
Annual subscription tiered by workload count (virtual machines, container hosts, serverless functions).
About the Vendor
Wiz offers a portfolio covering assessing cloud exposure or protecting running workloads and finding or addressing weaknesses in software. The entries in this catalog include Wiz Cloud, Wiz Code and Wiz Defend. Wiz Cloud focuses on cloud security posture assessment and attack path analysis. Wiz Code focuses on code-to-cloud security analysis. Wiz Defend focuses on cloud threat detection and response. When reviewing Wiz, compare the named products individually: a platform family, a specific module and a managed service can have different scopes and purchasing requirements. Selection should account for cloud permissions required for onboarding, the assets assessed, runtime coverage and how findings reach remediation owners. Portfolio detail - Wiz Cloud: the catalog lists Cloud security graph context, Container security, Kubernetes security. - Wiz Code: the catalog lists Code-to-cloud context, Static application security testing, Dynamic application security testing. - Wiz Defend: the catalog lists Cloud runtime investigation, Kubernetes security, Attack path analysis. For procurement, map each required capability to a named offering and confirm the edition, dependencies and delivery responsibility with the vendor. Product-level entries below provide the operational context and evaluation questions for that comparison.
Frequently Asked Questions: Wiz Cloud Security Platform
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