Name: Wiz CNAPP
Rating: 4.7 (620 reviews)

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Product Information on Wiz CNAPP

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Wiz CNAPP?

Wiz CNAPP is a software designed to provide cloud security by helping organizations identify and manage risks across cloud environments. This software offers visibility into cloud infrastructure, enabling detection of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposures in real time. It integrates with major cloud platforms, offering context on workloads, identities, and network configurations. Wiz CNAPP enables prioritization and remediation of security issues by presenting actionable insights into risks and compliance status. The software supports security operations by correlating various cloud resources, supporting governance and risk reduction for enterprises seeking to secure complex cloud architectures.

Overall experience with Wiz CNAPP

Associate Consultant

500M - 1B USD, Banking

FAVORABLE

“WIZ CNAPP: Complex Interface Present Challenges Despite Strong Scanning Capabilities”

4.0

Dec 31, 2025

Wiz CNAPP helps us secure everything we build and run in the cloud. Because it is agent-less, we don't have to worry about agent installation or issues where the agent prevents something from reporting correctly. We are using it to scan the resources running on AWS and it has performed exceptionally well under our current demand. Its support for IAC scanning is a standout feature which allows us to check the manifests for any misconfiguration. Since moving to microservices, we particularly value its ability to identify vulnerable open-source libraries and dependencies in our code.

MANAGER, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT

3B - 10B USD, Energy and Utilities

CRITICAL

“Product Offers Multi-Cloud Visibility and Risk Prioritization With Some Limitations”

3.0

Nov 25, 2025

The product is completely agentless providing multi cloud visibility, strong risk prioritization using wiz security graph to high light real attack paths. also comes with cspm, cwpp, ciem, vulnerability management in one platform avoiding tools sprawl.

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For Market:
Cloud Security Posture Management Tools

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Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms

About Company

Company Description

Wiz is a company that aids organizations across various sizes and sectors to swiftly detect and eliminate crucial risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, and Kubernetes. This enables these organizations to develop quicker and with enhanced security.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2020

Head office location

New York, United States

Number of employees

501 - 1000

Website

https://www.wiz.io

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Wiz CNAPP Likes & Dislikes

The features we like most are the IAC code scanning that enabled us to check Terraform, CF and K8s manifests files and the ability to identify open-source libraries that are vulnerable and another feature we like most is its secret detection in the code repos and container images which helps us to prevent accidental exposure of API keys and tokens.

wiz builds a graph that correlates identities, data , mis configurations and vulnerabilities to show realistic attacker paths

Wiz provides great visibility across multi-cloud environments and workloads without requiring agents. Its prioritization engine is excellent, correlating vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and identity risks into a single view. The UI is simple and intuitive and integrations with CI/CD pipelines and other platforms (i.e. ticketing system) makes remediation fast and efficient.

One of the main dislikes is its price. Also, the interface, while clean, is so dense with telemetry and features that it takes a few months to understand and master.

high licensing cost, especially at large cloud, scale . comes with limited runtime protection compared to full cwpp/edr solutions. requires tuning to reduce noise and fully leverage advanced features

The main challenge is cost scalability for very large environments. Some advanced compliance features require additional configuration and can be difficult for users with no prior experience with CNAPPs. Also, some work needs to be done on cloud resource categorization as Wiz engine sometimes fails to discriminate between actual virtual machines and other items/devices.

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50M-1B USD

Banking

Review Source

WIZ CNAPP: Complex Interface Present Challenges Despite Strong Scanning Capabilities

IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

Software

Efficient Multi-Cloud Security Hampered by Scalability and Configuration Complexity

Nov 26, 2025

Powerful Cloud Security platform with Deep visibility of threats and vulnerabilities on the organization's exposed surface

1B-10B USD

Energy and Utilities

Product Offers Multi-Cloud Visibility and Risk Prioritization With Some Limitations

Director, IT Security and Risk Management

Game Changing Success in the Cloud Security Visibility and Container Runtime Realm

5.0

Oct 28, 2025

My organization has had game-changing success with WIZ. The amount of clear and easily digestible cloud visibility we were able to gain has provided much better insight into the questions, "what is our cloud security posture" and "what truly poses a risk to our organization".

ARCHITECT

Comprehensive Vulnerability Tracking Available

Nov 20, 2025

great customer support / provides dashboard to dig into vulnerability issues