Some application misconfigurations are equivalent to remote code execution or information disclosure vulnerabilities, but often go unnoticed. Wiz’s agentless capabilities detect these and correlate them to attack surface and business impact risks, highlighting the most critical misconfigurations.

Service Control Policies (SCPs) can be a great way to prevent actions from happening in AWS accounts. In this post, we will illustrate a specific use case of SCPs that protects the security baseline, or landing zone, configuration you’ve created for accounts

Wiz CLI and Wiz Admission Controller enable developers to leverage a single security policy throughout the software pipeline for cloud-native environments.

Stay compliant with Wiz’s 100+ compliance frameworks, generate quick compliance reports, and remediate issues faster with remediation guidance and auto-remediation.

CVE-2023-25610 is a critical RCE vulnerability in FortiOS. This vulnerability is a buffer underwrite bug in the administrative interface which could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute code using specially crafted requests. Affected customers should patch immediately.

Pod Security Policies were removed in Kubernetes v1.25 — learn how to migrate from Pod Security Policies to Pod Security Standards

Wiz for DSPM, now generally available, helps customers reduce the time it takes to discover and fix cloud data exposure before it becomes a costly breach

Leading cybersecurity companies partner to increase customer value and disrupt the enterprise security industry

Why a customer focus unlocks new levels of innovation and enables security team success

Hear from John Visneski, CISO of MGM Studios about how the organization fosters collaboration and transparency across business units using Wiz.

Wiz and Procter & Gamble experts share their security insights and tips

Since early September 2022, tens of thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences have been hacked, redirecting hundreds of thousands of their users to adult-themed content.

Wiz announces new GitOps workflows and Terraform provider, enabling customers to manage policies as code.

Just three years since its launch, Wiz becomes the world’s largest cyber unicorn and fastest SaaS company to reach a $10B valuation

In this third blog post, we will discuss lateral movement risks from the cloud to Kubernetes. We will explain attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for cloud builders and defenders to help secure their cloud environments and mitigate risk.

From the Big Bang to Leonardo da Vinci, these socks have protected the cloud throughout history.

Learn how CISOs are preparing for what’s ahead by embracing consolidation and continuing to invest in security.

Automatically push Wiz-identified cloud security issues to Snowflake to analyze and accurately report on your cloud security metrics.

Recent attacks leverage CVE-2021-21974 to install ransomware on VMWare ESXi servers. Security teams are advised to patch and stay vigilant for indicators of compromise.

Wiz's State of the Cloud 2023 report provides analysis of trends in cloud usage such as multi-cloud, use of managed services and more. In addition, the report highlights notable cloud risks based on insights from 30% of Fortune 100 enterprise cloud environments

Learn Rego basics from Wiz to express policy as code for your cloud security.

Simplify and centralize security and compliance management by sending audit-worthy events from Wiz into AWS CloudTrail Lake.

Shell commands that once had to be run manually now can be coded into a custom rule and run daily using Wiz agentless workload scanning.

Learn how to improve cluster security with user namespaces, a new feature introduced in Kubernetes v1.25.

The Wiz and Tines partnership empowers organizations to protect their cloud infrastructure at scale with no-code automation.

Detect and mitigate CVE-2022-44877, a CentOS Control Web Panel (CWP) unauthenticated RCE exploited in the wild. Security teams are advised to patch urgently.

Learn how to detect malicious persistence techniques in AWS, GCP & Azure after potential initial compromise, like with the CircleCI incident

Wiz announces availability of new regional data center and adds support for Essential Eight controls.

Hear from security leaders about their plans, strategies, and priorities for the new year.

In this second blog post, we will discuss lateral movement risks from Kubernetes to the cloud. We will explain attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for security practitioners and cloud builders to help secure their cloud environments and mitigate risk.

The developers of PyTorch (a popular machine-learning framework) recently identified a malicious dependency confusion attack on the open-source project. Security teams are advised to check for infected resources and rotate any exposed keys.

Critical RCE vulnerability found in Linux kernel's `ksmbd` module: remote attackers can execute code without authentication. The module is not enabled by default on most operating systems.

A new exploit method targeting CVE-2022-41080 and CVE-2022-41082 vulnerabilities in Exchange servers, which can bypass previous workarounds, has been discovered and exploited in the wild. Organizations should patch urgently.

Wiz enhances its Dynamic Scanner to detect publicly exposed, unauthenticated APIs

Easily detect dangling domains to reduce the risk of phishing campaigns and cookie harvesting of organization’s customers.

Wiz extends its cloud analysis with an external scanner, giving customers an attacker's view of their externally exposed resources to reduce noise.

Learn about how AWS's recently released Delegated Administrator for AWS Organization can be used to solve common problems at your company and the issues you might run into with it.

A step-by-step framework for modeling and improving SaaS and PaaS tenant isolation by reducing your cloud applications’ attack surface

Detect and mitigate CVE-2022-27518, a Citrix ADC and Gateway unauthenticated RCE 0-day exploited in the wild by a nation state actor. Organizations should patch urgently.

CI/CD pipelines, as an essential part of the software development process, are an attractive target to malicious actors. Based on our research of cloud environments, we share common misconfigurations and provide tips on how to remediate them in order to prevent supply-chain attacks.

Wiz extends its CIEM capabilities to enable least privilege access for Azure environments.

AWS re:Invent is the largest conference of the year for Amazon Web Services (AWS) with hundreds of talks. We picked our favorite cloud security talks that are available online.

Wiz adds full detection of cloud services for deeper visibility and control over shadow IT.

Hear from industry experts to understand the challenges ahead and best practices CISOs can follow to avoid issues in the future.

Wiz extends its risk assessment to support host and application level misconfigurations, enabling customers to ensure security and compliance posture for applications.

We'd like to take a moment this holiday season to recognize our greatest asset—our customers.

Get all the news from Las Vegas and learn about how Wiz and AWS continue to strengthen a strategic relationship to secure customers’ AWS environments.

How IBM Cloud caught us exploring its infrastructure and how a hardcoded secret eventually led to build artifact access and manipulation

New integration enables AWS customers to send Wiz security issues detected in AWS resources to Security Hub.

New integration enables customers to consolidate security logs, run investigations and analyze security metrics in their customer-owned data lake.

Deeper partnership accelerates end-to-end cloud-native data protection from discovery to enforcement.

Wiz expands its platform to proactively eliminate attack paths to discovered critical data.

Fully understand the impact and architecture behind any threat to streamline and speed effective response with a first-of-its-kind integration combining the Wiz Security Graph’s deep cloud and multi-cloud risk context with Google Cloud’s Security Command Center’s advanced threat detection.

vSphere integration makes Wiz the first cloud security platform to protect both on-premises and cloud environments without an agent.

On November 1st, 2022, the OpenSSL Project disclosed High severity vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, affecting deployments of OpenSSL 3.0.0–3.0.6. Learn how to effectively manage your organization's patching efforts.

New Wiz capabilities protect containerized applications by bringing deep cloud context and visibility to quickly identify and prioritize risks across containers, Kubernetes and cloud environments without agents

KubeCon 2022 will be full of great presentations and content. Here's our take on the conference sessions (apart from our own) that you shouldn't miss, whether you're onsite or attending virtually.

Wiz will be attending and sponsoring KubeCon for the first time and we have a lot to share regarding how enterprises can better secure their container and Kubernetes environments. Come say hi!

In this first blog post, we will introduce lateral movement as it pertains to the VPC. We will discuss attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for security practitioners and cloud builders to help secure their cloud environment and reduce risk.

Recognition in the Cyber category honors Wiz for its exceptional technology partnership with one of the world’s leading financial institutions

Before it was patched, #AttachMe could have allowed attackers to access and modify any other users' OCI storage volumes without authorization, thereby violating cloud isolation. Upon disclosure, the vulnerability was fixed within hours by Oracle. No customer action was required.

Leonid Belkind, CTO of Torq, and Itay Arbel, PM at Wiz, explain how organizations can build a coherent Cyber Security Incident Response Plan using Wiz CDR to analyze cloud events and threat alerts in their context together with Torq's next-generation orchestration and automation capabilities.

How Wiz Research uncovered multiple related vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL-as-a-Service offerings from GCP, Azure, and others.

Just two years since its launch, Wiz protects hundreds of the world’s leading organizations by enabling them to build faster and more securely in the cloud

Wiz continues momentum with addition of security luminary Emily Heath to board of directors; expands executive team to lead hyper-growth

Q&A: Why Wiz caught the attention of DocuSign’s Former CTSO

Companies are turning to Wiz every day to gain instant visibility into their cloud environments.

In just two years, Wiz helps hundreds of customers protect their cloud infrastructure and innovate more quickly. As a result, Wiz has become the fastest-growing software company ever, scaling from $1M ARR to $100M ARR in just 18 months.

Founded in 2020, Wiz is the youngest company on the list.

Wiz is excited to be back in Las Vegas for Black Hat 2022 as a sponsor of this year's conference. At Black Hat, you'll have the opportunity to learn from our research and product experts, experience live demos in our booth, and mingle with us after the conference.

Wiz finds Azure customers remain unpatched from cloud middleware vulnerability and collaborates with Microsoft to introduce an auto-patching solution against cloud middleware security issues and make the cloud safer

Affected organizations are required to update installed agents that use the OMI cloud middleware software

Visit our booth and attend one of our many sessions at re:Inforce this week.

Wiz leverages its leading Cloud Security Graph to help Cloud Defenders quickly understand, with the click of a button— what happened, where it happened, and how to respond.

We invite you to attend Wiz Research's four technical sessions as well as the Wiz party at Flight Club Boston.

Support for Alibaba Cloud follows just weeks after launch of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) integration, providing organizations the broadest coverage of any cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP)

Wiz Research builds upon previous “OMIGOD” findings with a presentation at RSA Conference 2022; details how cloud middleware use across cloud service providers can expose customers' virtual machines to new attack vectors

Our introduction of attack path analysis (APA) and Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) further enriches the context provided by our foundational Wiz Security Graph.

Wiz today unveiled new advancements to its cloud security platform

Fortune 500’s Avery Dennison among enterprises that operate securely on OCI and other cloud infrastructure with Wiz

We can’t wait to see many of you at RSA Conference 2022 in San Francisco, June 6-9. Check out a demo at our booth, attend a Wiz speaking session, or unwind at our SFMOMA party!

Learn about the security risks of misconfigured Lambda function URLs and how to properly secure them.

Wiz Research discovers a chain of critical vulnerabilities in the widely used Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

Learn how to address Spring4Shell and CVE-2022-22963 RCE vulnerabilities in cloud environments.

Learn how to harden your cloud environment against LAPSUS$-like threat actors

Wiz is excited to announce its new integration with ServiceNow Vulnerability Response (VR), creating a combined vulnerability management workflow that eliminates blind spots and prioritizes risks.

For each CVE, the Wiz Research team maintains data from multiple threat intelligence sources and our own independent research. Now that we’ve added support for the new CISA KEV catalog, learn how you can use it in your cloud environment.

Learn how to achieve compliance security at scale with Wiz and RegScale, supporting a variety of compliance framework controls.

In this post, we discuss five security limitations of endpoint security agents and also explain how adding agentless solutions can improve your cloud environment security.

As more organizations move to the cloud, so do attackers. What can you do to better protect your cloud environment in 2022? Wiz Research has compiled the most pressing cloud security threats and how you can protect against them.

Who is responsible for doing what when a new cloud vulnerability is disclosed? Right now, it can be hard to know.

The main challenge with Log4j is understanding your existing infrastructure, and identifying the location of all vulnerable Log4j libraries. Follow Wiz's recommendations to wrap it all before the Holidays!

Read about the NotLegit vulnerability discovered by the Wiz Research Team, where the Azure App Service exposed hundreds of source code repositories

Wiz and EY (Ernest & Young) analyzed more than 200 enterprise cloud environments with thousands of cloud accounts. The results were striking: While 93% of all cloud environments are at risk from Log4Shell, on average organizations have patched 45% of their vulnerable cloud resources by Day 10.

Log4Shell Meltdown: How to protect your cloud from this critical RCE threat. In this post, we’ll provide a quick overview of Log4Shell: what it is, its impact, and recommendations for security teams.

Fixing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in the pipeline before deployment makes perfect sense - it reduces the overall threat footprint and saves time. Wiz offers customers a straightforward way to operationalize a Shift Left strategy.

With Wiz, you can assess your compliance posture across industry standards and business units at a glance to immediately pinpoint your weak spots.

Wiz is excited to announce it is a launch partner for the new Amazon Inspector, bringing Amazon Inspector findings together with Wiz insights to give our customers actionable, prioritized and contextually rich security insights.

In the pre-cloud era, the responsibility for security was fully in the hands of the users. As we uncover new types of vulnerabilities, we discover more and more issues that do not fit the current model. Solution: we need a centralized cloud vulnerabilities database.

This is the full story of the Azure ChaosDB Vulnerability that was discovered and disclosed by the Wiz Research Team, where we were able to gain complete unrestricted access to the databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers.

A summary and recording of Wiz's talk at BlackHat Europe 2021: the full extent of ChaosDB, the impact it had, and the questions it raises about security in managed cloud services.

Customers have come to realize ignorance isn’t bliss. Cloud has gotten too big and unwieldy for most companies to effectively manage on their own. That’s where Wiz comes in.

Learn how to protect cloud environments from the new critical Apache HTTP Server vulnerability.

Learn how to protect your cloud environment from supply chain attacks.

In this post, we’re going to dive into the role and limitations of security agents in the cloud, and put forth a different approach for cloud infrastructure security: agentless deep scanning.

Wiz Research recently found 4 critical vulnerabilities in OMI, which is one of Azure's most ubiquitous yet least known software agents and is deployed on a large portion of Linux VMs in Azure.

Wiz Research recently discovered a series of alarming vulnerabilities that highlight the supply chain risk of open source code, particularly for customers of cloud computing services.

The first half of 2021 has been incredible for Wiz. Fueled by an additional $250M in funding ($350M total) from Sequoia, Index Ventures, Insight, Salesforce, Blackstone, Advent, Greenoaks, and Aglaé Wiz has grown at a blistering pace, going from 25 employees at the start of the year to 120 today.

Wiz Research found an unprecedented critical vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB. The vulnerability gives any Azure user full admin access (read, write, delete) to another customers Cosmos DB instances without authorization.

As part of building a market-leading CNAPP, Wiz Research is constantly looking for new attack surfaces in the cloud. Two weeks ago we discovered an unprecedented breach that affects Azure’s flagship database service, Cosmos DB.

CNAPP stands for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform. The term was coined by Gartner, who recognized the expanding needs that go into securing applications in the cloud.

At Black Hat on Wednesday, Wiz researchers disclosed a vulnerability in DNS hosting services that affects millions of corporate endpoints.

Last November, Wiz Research mapped all the services in AWS that allow access from other accounts to see if any of them might inadvertently expose customers and discovered 3 vulnerabilities in different AWS services that allowed anyone to read or write into the accounts of other AWS customers.

Wiz CTO Ami Luttwak discusses a new class of vulnerabilities discovered by Wiz Research, which exposed valuable dynamic DNS data from millions of endpoints worldwide.

The 10 must-attend sessions at Black Hat 2021

Last week Wiz closed its Series B, which we had previously announced in March, with an additional $120 million investment from Salesforce Ventures and Blackstone with participation from Aglaé Ventures.

The report breaks down the current state of the cloud security market and provides an analysis of Wiz’s product strategy, technology, competitors, and more. It’s essential reading for anyone looking for an objective third-party perspective on Wiz and the rapidly developing cloud security market.

Wiz becomes fastest growing security startup ever with new $1.7B valuation

Cloud identity permissions are complex. So complex that innocent looking permissions provided to 3rd party vendors can lead to unintended exposure of all of your data.

With an estimated 90% of cloud workloads running Linux based OS, with sudo being common across distributions, many Linux cloud assets are at risk and may be affected. Versions released as far back as 2011 are affected by this vulnerability.

SolarWinds attack explained by Wiz CTO Ami Luttwak

Today, we’re announcing a milestone in that journey: a $100M Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and Cyberstarts.