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reviewer1534569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
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Mar 1, 2023
It enabled us to consolidate tools into a single pane of glass, speeding up our mean time to respond
Pros and Cons
  • "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."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

We use Wiz for cloud security posture management and related services, such as visibility, inventory, risk management, patch management, and framework maturity.

How has it helped my organization?

We saw benefits from day one. Wiz gives us greater visibility into S3 buckets and sensitive data that may be exposed or compromised. For example, it might show us buckets that are public but should not be or immediate areas where patching should be applied.

Wiz enabled us to consolidate tools into a single pane of glass. That sped up our meantime to respond. The single pane of glass helps our security teams identify zero-day threats and vulnerabilities to tackle first. Wiz has been a game-changer for us.

It's one of our core security tools for preventing breaches in our organization. Since we're a 100 percent cloud environment, Wiz is critical to our security toolset. 

Wiz helped to reduce blind spots in our risk detection capabilities. Their dashboard has pre-populated queries for zero-day threats that take the guesswork out of building a query. Everything's simple, understandable, and pre-populated for you to customize. It offers visibility into the vulnerability and what you must do to resolve it. 

I could take care of threats immediately and confirm to the executives that zero-day threats are prevalent in the industry for other organizations. It handles the security operations, governance, and risk compliance aspects of the cloud in a single solution.

Wiz also helped us avoid building a large team. We can use the team we have and scale the tool as needed because it provides visibility to multiple teams. Fewer people are needed to operate Wiz. 

What is most valuable?

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.

It's the best tool in its class. I have used many different tools in previous environments, and this was the easiest to use. It provides the most visibility from the dashboard and highlights areas that must be addressed immediately.

Wiz can seamlessly scan every layer of our cloud environment without agents. The documentation was thorough, with screenshots and examples of what to do next.

What needs improvement?

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. 

They could add more security functionality and visibility into EKS and Kubernetes in general. I believe that is on their roadmap. Wiz should just keep pace with the changes in the cloud and new features customers are requesting. 

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have used Wiz for two and a half years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've never had any issues or outages.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate Wiz a ten out of ten for scalability.

How are customer service and support?

I rate Wiz support a ten out of ten. Their support is excellent. We can always reach our account representative when we have a problem or need to speak with technical staff to clarify things. It's easy to get help when needed.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

Setting up Wiz was straightforward. We only had two engineers on our side working on the deployment. One was responsible for documentation, and the other handled the hands-on aspects. Realistically, you only needed one person to deploy it.

Wiz is deployed in a public cloud environment. We have seven or eight different accounts, and the rollout was seamless. There were no issues. We aren't multi-regional. It's currently one region, but we are looking at expanding. The solution currently gives us the coverage we need for those environments. Wiz requires no maintenance. It runs on its own. 

What about the implementation team?

We deployed Wiz using API integration through a VAR service. It was a streamlined process from a VAR perspective. Both sides understood the problems, and we made adjustments to the size of the setup we needed to meet our demands. That was a good aspect of the VAR relationship.

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

The pricing is fair and comparable to their competitors. The cost seems to be going up, which is a concern. There are potential savings from consolidating tools, but we're uncertain how Wiz's pricing will change over time. 

It might follow a trajectory similar to Splunk. Early adopters got an excellent deal, but it became pricey when they became the market leader. Many CISOs are concerned about the longevity of Wiz's pricing model. It's becoming a go-to product that lots of folks are shifting toward. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I can't talk about the other tools, but we looked at the best in the industry, and Wiz outshined all of them.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Wiz a ten out of ten. Take a look at competitors and make your opinion. At the same time, most people choose Wiz because of its ease of use, support, and return on investment. Those are the main reasons we selected and stayed with them.

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.
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InfoSec Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Apr 13, 2023
It's easy to do queries to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each
Pros and Cons
  • "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."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

I have worked in security for a while, but I'm new to the cloud security world, and Wiz helps me understand how to secure cloud environments like AWS and Azure on the backend. We have about 50 Wiz users, including four admins and the SOC team. About 10 members of the CloudOps team have access. 

How has it helped my organization?

Wiz's biggest benefit is visibility. My organization acquired a few other companies, and we didn't know what we had. With Wiz, we only needed to create a service account and add new accounts to gain visibility into how they are configured, what security holes they have, and how to fix their vulnerabilities.

Visibility into critical risks is essential to our security team's job. You need to know what's out there to protect the environment. Wiz helps us reduce blind spots in our remediation, and we're constantly working on that. Our cloud security team is relatively small, so we're still seeing several servers with vulnerabilities.

We're still refining our remediation process. Now, when we see a vulnerability, we open a ticket with CloudOps to remedy it. However, the company recently made some acquisitions, and the other organizations we bought have their own processes.

We've been able to consolidate a few tools. For example, we had another product that we were using to pull reports from AMIs, but we recently started doing that in Wiz, so we don't need it anymore.  It's easier to use one tool with a single pane of glass instead of logging into multiple tools to get some information, you can do it from the Wiz platform.

What is most valuable?

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. We can sort it by a specific account or see them all in one place. I can't imagine logging in to each AWS account every time I need to see something with it. It's making things much easier.

What needs improvement?

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. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used Wiz for about a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I'm impressed with the stability. We've only had downtime from maintenance and updates, and they notify us in advance, so we aren't impacted. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We haven't needed to scale anything. It's a SaaS solution, so everything happens in the background. I haven't noticed any issues. 

How are customer service and support?

I've never contacted tech support directly, but I meet with our account managers weekly, and they help me when I have issues. They open the case for me and provide a solution. At the next meeting, they follow up with me, and it's usually resolved pretty fast.

What was our ROI?

We realized value immediately after implementing Wiz. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate Wiz nine out of 10. Before implementing Wiz, you should have all the information about your cloud environment in hand. It's straightforward once you get started. The challenge is getting connected to the environment. It will be difficult if you don't have the keys to the environment. Make sure you have a list of all your tenants for AWS, Azure, GCP, etc., so you don't miss anything.

You're always going to have a lot of alerts in this business, but Wiz has the flexibility to tailor your controls to your company's specific needs. That will reduce the amount of alerts. 

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reviewer2059842 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Information Security at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Jan 11, 2023
Provides complete visibility, scans every layer of our cloud environment without agents, and has agentless implementation
Pros and Cons
  • "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."
  • "The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."

What is our primary use case?

Our adoption has primarily been centered around understanding vulnerabilities in the environment and the configuration landscape in terms of creating hardening rules, policies, and other components like that. We're also able to see what the true risk landscape looks like by vulnerability tracking.

How has it helped my organization?

It simplified our ability to respond to new issues that are happening in the environment. Previously, in a scenario where a vulnerability could be a problem, or where there was a high-profile vulnerability and we needed to look at the overall impact, it was normally spread across multiple teams doing the analysis for that. We had to coordinate with all of the teams that manage their own infrastructure. Now, my team is able to provide that analysis upfront without having to take cycles away from development and other discovery components. We're able to have that single view into the entire organization.

It scans every layer of our cloud environment without agents. One of the primary reasons we looked at the platform was its agentless integration. When we look at the deployment models and have to go through an agent-based model, we have to write the components, and there's still that touchpoint on all of the cloud assets. We have to stand up infrastructure, and there's a lot of deployment overhead, whereas agentless implementations are very quick. Because it's doing the site scanning, after we have it integrated into the organization, within 24 hours of the new account being integrated, we have analytics on it.

It helped to reduce blind spots in our risk detection capabilities. It has added a lot of visibility into areas that we otherwise have been lacking. One of the aspects that are cool about it's that it looks at things in terms of inheritance, which I call "shadows." There might be a permission set or a network path that might be inheriting something that you wouldn't know by looking at it from a model, but they show that in their platform. It has simplified the areas around analyzing our permissions and analyzing the exposure points on systems. We're not having to comb through every security group and every security policy to see what exposure points are. We can see that it's inheriting something that we didn't realize in one of the other security groups or other permission sets.

It has simplified the remediation components and how we're performing analysis on the security pieces. It hasn't reduced the number of people, but it has reduced cycles. We're now able to consolidate the cycles, which were necessary but were spread across all of the different areas of the organization, into my team to be able to perform a lot of the analytics and functions that were taking those cycles away. So, engineering is more able to focus on being engineering and not having security go, "Hey, can you look into and investigate this item for me?"

What is most valuable?

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.

Wiz Security Graph is awesome because it tells us exactly what the exposure looks like and how to be able to get to it. So, we know what areas along the way we may need to look at for external exposures and other things that we may not have been aware of.

What needs improvement?

The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that.

For how long have I used the solution?

We implemented it in September.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

From a stability standpoint, we've not seen any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have a cloud environment. One of the key components and a huge decision-maker in going with the platform was that we're able to scale into it. So, if we add cloud assets, it's very easy for the system to scale with us.

How are customer service and support?

We haven't had any experience directly with them. Most of everything that we've been working through has been with the implementation team, and that has been great.

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

We didn't use any other solution in this company, but I have used Orca Security and Prisma Cloud in previous companies.

In terms of consolidation of tools, it didn't allow us to consolidate tools because we were in a net-new component, but it was one of the first tools that we started putting in within our security program for visibility just because of the necessity around that.

How was the initial setup?

I oversaw the deployment. My team was the one that did most of the work. 

The initial setup was very straightforward. It was just working within our enterprise cloud account and then everything populated underneath that, and off we went.

After the deployment, we were seeing value in the first week. We were able to look at some of the analytics and other components and put some of that data together. It helped us to understand the inventory landscape and to be able to comb through that. I've written a lot of manual tools to do that. They go through and do the scanning of the environment and other things, but it ends up getting pretty gnarly and complex. To be able to plug a system in and then see all of my cloud assets and any issues that were associated with them right off the bat was huge.

What about the implementation team?

We did not use an integrator, reseller, or consultant. We have just been working with the Wiz account team's implementation services.

For the phase one implementation, we had one engineer on security and probably one part-time engineer on the infrastructure side helping to troubleshoot. From my team, I had one FTE assigned to the project, and we were able to implement it.

What was our ROI?

The biggest return is the fact that a lot of the things that were decentralized while doing investigations and analysis can now be pulled into a single individual running some report queries to determine the impact and gauge that. We're now able to do that in real-time versus a multi-day turnaround across all of the different engineering groups.

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

The pricing is fair. Some of the more advanced features and functionalities and how the tiers are split can be somewhat confusing.

What other advice do I have?

The biggest thing is understanding the hows of where your integration points are going to be.

To someone who is looking at buying Wiz but is concerned that they already have a bunch of products that give them a lot of alerts, I would say that from an alert perspective, we haven't had a whole lot of issues related to alert fatigue from the system. We were very calculated in the implementation in terms of the things that we're seeing just for that reason. One of the things is that there could be areas where there might be overlaps in alerting. So, you can look at potentially consolidating those systems down into this single platform. Depending upon how you're doing some of the logging, alerts, and change detections in the environments, you can consolidate things like your vulnerability scanning.

I would rate it an eight out of ten.

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Cloud Security Lead at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
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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CyberSecurity Sr Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
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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AWS Cloud Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
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.
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reviewer2121129 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Mar 8, 2023
Great vulnerability management with security data at all levels and excellent technical support
Pros and Cons
  • "The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
  • "We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."

What is our primary use case?

Per my company’s guidelines – I am not allowed to share any information about our environment or detailed use cases. What I am sharing is at a very high level.

Overall I can share that we are using Wiz for AWS cloud discovery, identification, and remediation of misconfigurations as well as vulnerabilities.

We are considering more use cases and scenarios (as well as expanding to more teams in the org) in time. For now, these are the primary use cases that we are currently using Wiz for.

How has it helped my organization?

The solution has made a difference in the organization via: 

Technical capability. It covers all our languages, frameworks, and assets on AWS with the ability to do side scanning, which reduces compute needs and agent deployment/maintenance.

Natural query language. The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI.

Security data at all levels. Wiz supports Basic and Advanced modes, meaning Engineering and Business users can leverage the platform without being complicated or too dumbed down.

A fresh approach to Vulnerability ManagementLegacy methods did not work effectively in the cloud, risk-based context-driven vulnerability identification drives real results.

The ‘Graph’ has uses beyond security. Leveraging centralized cloud asset information enables teams to query in one place their architecture for operational success.

What is most valuable?

The Security Graph is the power of Wiz. This, teamed with continually developed cloud configuration rules, makes Wiz a powerhouse of an application. We use this information to pull all levels of security-relevant data and also for use cases outside of security. Leveraging this technology saves us not only precious engineering time but also money developing and investing in other overlapping solutions.

We find Wiz's native integrations to be extremely useful and paramount to the operational success of the platform; from day one, we have worked on integrating Wiz into as many internal platforms as possible.

What needs improvement?

Wiz is fully aware of its areas of improvement. We are seeing huge platform releases over the next couple of quarters, which they promise and deliver on. Wiz is the first vendor I've worked with that has turnaround feature requests in less than a month. 

We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform. Improvements around the IaC scanning dashboards and flexibility would be nice however, this does not detract from the current usability of the tool at all. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for more than six months.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is excellent. It is some of the best post-sales support ever received. CSMs know the product and share the same level of passion for the solution.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

By far, the easiest part of the solution is the setup. It took all of one hour to complete, and that's with a custom Terraform.

What about the implementation team?

We handled the setup in-house

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated six other solutions from larger and smaller vendors.

What other advice do I have?

If possible, a company needs to do a demo and a PoC. That way, they will see the value right away.

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)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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SatishKumar9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data and AI Expert at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Aug 19, 2024
Easy to use and helps businesses save time
Pros and Cons
  • "The tool is very powerful in nature."
  • "As the tool is a good fit for small and medium-sized businesses, the solution should focus on making the product suitable for large-scale businesses."

What is our primary use case?

My organization operates as a service provider for some small companies, so we started working with Wiz. I am not fully confident in discussing how work is going on with Wiz. I am having a training session on how to use the tool.

What needs improvement?

There are no major complaints associated with the tool.

As the tool is a good fit for small and medium-sized businesses, the solution should focus on making the product suitable for large-scale businesses.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Wiz for six to seven months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I provide the solution for small companies. The tool suits small and medium-sized businesses.

My company did not get to use the product for an enterprise-sized business, but we may try it for large companies if we get an opportunity.

How are customer service and support?

I have not contacted technical support for the solution.

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

I have not worked with any other tools.

How was the initial setup?

One of our company's team members already completed the product's initial setup phase. I just started exploring the tool after that.

What was our ROI?

The tool helps our company save time.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Over the other tools in the market, my company started to use Wiz after our clients started to use it based on our recommendation. One of our team managers proposed Wiz, and then we started working on it.

What other advice do I have?

My company has not integrated the product with any other tools. We have just started exploring the product, which we mainly use for Azure-based tools and for detecting vulnerabilities. Actually, one of my other teams in my company has good experience with the tool. I am in the first stage of exploring Wiz.

The tool is very powerful in nature.

It is easy to use the tool.

I recommend the tool to others since it is a user-friendly product.

I have started using the product for any AI-based projects. I am trying to switch over from exchange to security platforms.

I will recommend the tool to other people. It is good to use. I can recommend the tool to anyone.

I have not yet started using the AI features in the tool.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. partner
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