Wiz

Wiz has experienced meteoric growth since its 2020 founding, becoming one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies ever. Headquartered in New York, Wiz was founded by former Microsoft Azure security leaders who identified gaps in cloud security visibility. The company achieved unicorn status within 18 months and now serves thousands of organizations including a significant percentage of Fortune 500 companies.

Wiz's Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) provides comprehensive security across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The platform discovers all cloud resources, identifies misconfigurations, detects vulnerabilities, uncovers toxic combinations of risks, and provides prioritized remediation guidance. Wiz deploys in minutes without agents or network changes by reading cloud configuration APIs. Their security graph technology maps relationships between cloud resources, identities, and data to identify attack paths that traditional tools miss.

The company differentiates through deployment speed, comprehensive coverage, and actionable prioritization. Wiz eliminates the lengthy professional services engagements typical of CNAPP implementations. Their risk prioritization considers context (is the vulnerable container internet-facing? does it access sensitive data?) rather than just CVE scores. Wiz has rapidly expanded capabilities through acquisitions including Gem Security and Raftt. However, rapid growth has raised questions about sustainable unit economics at scale.

For cloud-native organizations requiring immediate visibility into multi-cloud security posture, Wiz delivers rapid time-to-value and comprehensive coverage. Their agentless approach and intuitive interface suit security teams overwhelmed by cloud complexity. Best fit for companies with significant cloud infrastructure, particularly those running containerized applications and microservices across multiple cloud providers seeking to reduce cloud risk quickly.