Wiz

Wiz reached $100M ARR faster than any enterprise software company in history, growing from zero to that milestone in 18 months after launch. It's now used by 40% of Fortune 100 companies for cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud-native application protection (CNAP).

## The Wiz Security Graph

Wiz's core innovation is the Security Graph — a comprehensive inventory of your entire cloud environment that maps every resource and their relationships. Rather than showing isolated vulnerabilities, Wiz identifies toxic risk combinations: a public-facing VM that also has admin credentials to a database with sensitive data and a known critical CVE. These "attack paths" are the real threats; isolated vulnerabilities with no viable attack path are deprioritized.

## Agentless Architecture

Wiz requires no agents deployed on cloud infrastructure. It connects via API to cloud providers and scans configurations, workloads, and data directly. This gives organizations complete coverage in days rather than months — no endpoint agents to deploy, manage, or maintain.

## AI Risk Prioritization

Wiz AI analyzes the full security graph to surface the highest-priority risks. Instead of overwhelming teams with thousands of individual vulnerabilities (the typical CSPM problem), Wiz shows which combination of issues creates exploitable attack paths to critical assets. Teams focus on 1-5 critical issues rather than hundreds of lower-priority findings.

## Wiz Defend (Runtime Security)

Beyond posture management, Wiz Defend detects active threats in cloud environments in real time — detecting exploitation of cloud-native attack patterns, lateral movement, and data exfiltration while correlating runtime events with the static posture graph.

## Pricing

Wiz is priced by cloud resource count — monthly or annual. Most mid-market deployments start at $100k-200k/year. Enterprise pricing is custom. No free tier, but comprehensive demos and POCs are available.