Why We Chose Wiz as the CNAPP Solution for Our Customers

Discover why Wiz stands out as the top CNAPP solution for comprehensive cloud security, offering unmatched visibility, ease of management, and intelligent threat detection.

The cloud has revolutionized how businesses operate, offering unparalleled scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, this new paradigm also presents unique security challenges. As an IT security company dedicated to providing our customers with the best solutions, we've been hearing growing concerns about the limitations of current Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs). To address these concerns, we embarked on a comprehensive evaluation of leading CNAPP solutions. Our in-depth tests in multi-cloud environments, where we evaluated most features including container security and pipeline security, led us to Wiz. We partnered with Wiz to gain a deeper understanding of their platform and how it can effectively address the specific needs of our customers. After rigorous testing and analysis, we concluded that Wiz is the optimal choice for most of our customers. Armed with this knowledge, we proactively approached our customers who we believed would benefit most from Wiz's capabilities.

The Evolving Landscape of Cloud Security and the Rise of CNAPPs

The rapid adoption of cloud-native technologies like containers, microservices, and serverless functions has transformed the security landscape. Traditional security tools, often designed for on-premises environments, struggle to keep pace with the dynamic and distributed nature of the cloud. This has led to the emergence of CNAPPs, a new breed of security solutions designed specifically to protect cloud-native applications throughout their lifecycle. Modern cloud-native security requires a shift-left approach, integrating security early and throughout the application development lifecycle.  

The global cloud-native application protection platform market size is expected to grow at a CAGR of 21.8% from 2024 to 2030, reaching USD 38.01 billion by 2030 . This growth underscores the increasing importance of CNAPP solutions in today's cloud-centric world.  

CNAPPs aim to provide a unified platform that integrates various security capabilities, including:

• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM): Continuously monitors cloud environments for misconfigurations and compliance violations.  
• Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP): Protects workloads in real-time, identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities and threats.
• Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM): Manages and optimizes permissions and roles to prevent excessive access and privilege escalation.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security: Secures infrastructure configurations by scanning IaC templates for potential vulnerabilities.

While CNAPPs offer a promising approach to cloud security, many organizations face challenges with their existing solutions.

Customer Pain Points with Current CNAPP Solutions

Our research revealed several common pain points that customers experience with their current CNAPP solutions:

• Visibility Gaps: Network complexities and the ephemeral nature of serverless functions can hinder complete visibility into workloads and vulnerabilities.  
• Alert Fatigue and False Positives: The high volume of alerts and false positives can overwhelm security teams, making it difficult to prioritize critical issues.  
• Integration Challenges: Integrating CNAPPs with existing security tools and workflows can be complex and time-consuming .  
• Keeping Pace with Rapid Change: The dynamic nature of cloud environments can make it difficult for CNAPPs to keep up with frequent changes and maintain accurate assessments .  
• Cost and Complexity: Implementing and managing a comprehensive CNAPP solution can be expensive and complex, requiring specialized expertise and ongoing maintenance.  
• Limited Security Integration: Many CNAPPs don't offer comprehensive protection for applications running in other parts of the infrastructure, creating security gaps when workloads move between different environments .  
• Security Silos Due to Vendor Lock-in: Each cloud provider's security tools are typically limited to their own platform, leading to security silos that can be vulnerable.  
• Insufficient for Meeting Compliance Requirements: Meeting regulatory and compliance requirements often involves more than just securing applications; it also involves controlling user access and network segmentation.  
• Significant Learning Curve: Adopting CNAPPs requires specialized knowledge of cloud technologies, which can be a challenge for traditional IT security teams.  

Why We Chose Wiz: A Game-Changer in Cloud Security

Wiz addresses these pain points by offering a comprehensive and integrated CNAPP solution that provides:

• Agentless Visibility: Wiz connects to your cloud environment via API, providing complete visibility into your cloud resources without requiring agents. This eliminates blind spots and reduces operational overhead.
• Prioritized Risk Management: Wiz's Security Graph analyzes the relationships between your cloud resources and identifies the most critical attack paths. This allows you to prioritize risks based on their potential impact and focus on the most important issues first.  
• Seamless Integration with DevOps and SecOps Workflows: Wiz is built to integrate effortlessly with existing cloud security stacks, making deployment and operationalization more efficient.
• Unified Platform: Wiz provides a single platform for all of your cloud security needs, including vulnerability management, misconfiguration management, secrets management, and cloud forensics.This simplifies security management and reduces complexity.  
• Shift-Left Enablement: Wiz integrates with your CI/CD pipelines, allowing you to identify and remediate security risks early in the development lifecycle. This helps prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production and improves the efficiency of your DevOps processes.  
• Contextualized Detection and Response: Wiz correlates runtime signals, cloud events, and cloud and infrastructure risks to provide contextualized threat detection and response. This enables you to respond rapidly to threats and minimize the impact of potential incidents.
• Meeting Compliance with Ease: With built-in compliance frameworks, Wiz simplifies regulatory adherence, ensuring businesses meet industry standards without excessive manual effort.
• Lowering the Learning Curve: Wiz’s intuitive UI, automation features, and contextual insights make it easy for security teams to adopt and leverage effectively.

Key Features of Wiz That Set It Apart

Our evaluation of Wiz revealed several key features that set it apart from other CNAPP solutions:

• Visibility: Wiz cuts through the noise of countless security alerts and pinpoints the threats that truly matter, so you don't drown in a sea of alerts and lose sight of what to prioritize. Instead of bombarding your security teams with a constant stream of alerts, Wiz focuses on delivering actionable insights and high-context alerts. By prioritizing alerts based on actual risk, not just theoretical severity, your teams can focus on the issues that matter most. Wiz helps you separate the wheat from the chaff and zero in on the critical security risks that pose a real threat to your business.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Wiz provides comprehensive coverage across all major cloud providers, including AWS, GCP, Azure, and Akamai Linode Cloud. This allows you to manage your entire cloud security posture from a single platform.  
• Deep Visibility: Wiz provides deep visibility into your cloud environment, including networks, data, and environments . This helps you identify and remediate security risks that other solutions might miss.  
• Proactive Threat Detection: Wiz uses advanced technologies like machine learning and AI to proactively detect threats in real-time. This helps you stay ahead of emerging threats and prevent security breaches.  
• Ease of Use: Wiz is designed to be easy to use, with an intuitive interface and clear visualizations. This makes it easy for your security team to get up and running quickly.  
• Excellent Customer Support: Wiz provides excellent customer support, with dedicated resources and a responsive support portal . This ensures that you always have the help you need to effectively manage your cloud security.  

Conclusion

In today's dynamic cloud environment, organizations need a CNAPP solution that provides comprehensive security, deep visibility, and proactive threat detection. Finding the best solution, however, is a complex challenge that varies from customer to customer. Based on our hands-on evaluation of various options, we see Wiz as the perfect match for most organizations. Its capabilities, combined with our expertise in cloud security, DevOps, and SecOps, enable us to help customers build a robust and secure cloud environment tailored to their unique needs.