You’ll see us explicitly use the term “pragmatic” when describing our cybersecurity focus – when the pursuit of perfection prevents the good, that just leaves bad. And threat actors love bad. It’s impossible to get everything right, so we like to focus on high value activities that help mitigate your biggest risks quickly. Traditionally, when it came to cloud security, this exercise would require extensive discovery and analysis, a slew of native and 3rd party tools and a reluctant buy-in to costly validation and remediation exercises across multiple parts of the business. Enter Wiz.

Rapid Onboarding: With agentless deployment and support for all the major cloud providers (yes, even OCI) customers can get started with Wiz in a matter of minutes. A fringe benefit to leveraging APIs over agents is that there’s nowhere to hide (intentionally or otherwise) - Cloud Engineering/Infrastructure and Security teams love the single-pane-of-glass and “unknown unknowns” visibility Wiz provides.

Contextualised Results: The most common piece of feedback we receive from customers post-security engagement is “We love the fact that you didn’t overwhelm us with every finding under the sun but rather helped us prioritise what we really needed to look at”. The reality is, triaging findings from traditional security assessment tooling is tricky, not to mention laborious. Wiz has been a revelation, as it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you (and us) - combining findings and relevant data about your cloud resources into “toxic combinations”. If a freshly deployed, completely air-gapped VM has a bunch of CVEs, that’s not as important as a key database containing PII that’s publicly exposed to the internet having a single, well-known CVE… Wiz knows this. And then it lets you know.

Democratisation of Responsibility: The most secure organisations have one thing in common – a strong, security aware culture. The user friendliness of Wiz, combined with the aforementioned triaging (there’s nothing worse than getting irrelevant tasks lobbed over the fence when you’re busy fighting metaphorical fires) and guided remediation steps make it super simple to get teams engaged and focused on improving your overall security score. We’ve gamified, incentivised and generally proselytised – but whatever the approach, the outcome is always the same - Wiz engages beyond the security team like nothing else before it.

Moving left: What’s better than resolving a security risk? Preventing them being there in the first place! Wiz is strongly focused on the whole development/deployment lifecycle, and through Wiz Code can help development teams code securely (via IDE plugins) and then deploy securely (through static code analysis and cloud platform contextualisation) to prevent issues making their way into production. Wiz refers to this process as “moving security left” - earlier into the SDLC, and as good practice is baked into your DevOps teams, velocity increases along with your security posture. It's smiles all ‘round!

In short, Wiz helps our customers know what matters, why it matters, and what needs to be done about it quickly (and in style). Just the way we like it.