It’s resolution season: a time for reflection, goal-setting, and planning for the year ahead. As cloud and AI innovation accelerates, the line between building and securing is disappearing, making cloud security a must-have on this year’s resolution list. If it is, you’re not alone. Maybe this is the year you finally get full visibility into your cloud environment, reduce risk more effectively, or scale cloud security across your organization so every team can own and act on security.
With Wiz, turning those resolutions into results doesn’t have to be hard. In your first 90 days, we make it simple to see your highest-priority risks, take action, and start building lasting cloud security practices from day one.
That’s why we created a cloud security maturity framework, informed by learnings from thousands of customers. It provides a practical path to help any organization, at any stage of cloud maturity, to know what to focus on first, what to tackle next, and how to drive lasting impact. By connecting risk across the entire cloud development lifecycle, it’s a modern approach that scales security across your organization, empowers teams to act, and evolves with you - keeping pace with the speed of innovation.
Read on for the essentials and best practices to follow in your first 90 days with Wiz, so you can start the year strong and make meaningful progress on your cloud security goals.
Foundation First: Champion Center as Your Guide
Every good New Year’s resolution starts with a solid foundation, and cloud security is no different. Whether your organization is accelerating a digital transformation initiative or is cloud/AI-native, the foundation of effective cloud security begins with comprehensive visibility across your entire cloud estate – and we really mean, everything. This includes normalizing security across different cloud and SaaS providers to simplify management. It also includes mapping application owners, infrastructure owners, and business context leveraging role-based access control so teams clearly understand the risk they own and can act fast.
The Wiz Champion Center is your starting point. It serves as a guide to onboarding and deepening your use of Wiz, helping you build the right cloud security habits early so your resolutions don’t fade by February.
The Champion Center gives you a range of modules for advancing your cloud security maturity and putting those cloud security resolutions into action. For example, the onboarding module includes guides for key steps such as how to:
Gain Complete Visibility: Shift from fragmented views to a contextualized inventory. Learn about Wiz Connectors and Integrations, view your current deployments, and see every asset from the moment code is written to its behavior in live runtime.
Define Ownership with Projects and Service Catalog: Your cloud estate isn't a monolith. Use Projects to implement role-based access control at the business unit level, giving teams ownership over their part of the environment. Use the Service Catalog to model developer-owned microservices, allowing you to map Wiz to your organization’s unique structure so each team can manage risk within their scope.
Operationalize Security: Security findings shouldn't live in a siloed dashboard. Explore how to push Wiz insights directly into your existing workflow tools (Jira, ServiceNow, Slack) with Wiz Actions for automated, rapid remediation.
Expand Wiz Across Your Organization
Organizations that are most successful and achieve Zero Criticals the fastest are those that pull in teams across their organization and establish a cross-functional ‘Wizard Council.’ Today, more than 50% of Wiz users sit outside security, in development roles, proving that everyone actually wants in on the cloud security New Year’s party.
Because Wiz has visibility across the code to cloud to runtime lifecycle, we can help organizations not only answer key questions like, “Who is the right person to go to if there’s a risk discovered in a particular technology? How do we prevent similar risks in the future?” We also help customers build a stronger culture of security by empowering individual teams with the insights, context, and evidence they need to take ownership of their domain and remediate issues quickly and confidently.
To support this, capabilities like the Service Catalog, which we released into GA in December, as well as Lens offer teams more specific views of the Wiz Platform into the areas that are most important to them. This could mean helping a development team manage the security posture of the microservices they own or providing your data security teams with an overview of sensitive data detected across your environment.
Your Path to the Zero Criticals Club: Quantifying and Tracking Success
One of the hardest things in security is tracking progress - but with Wiz, it doesn’t have to be. Out of the box, the Champion Center gives you visibility into the KPIs that matter for your Security, Engineering, and Executive teams. From day one, you can track your progress, see when you’ve achieved wins, and celebrate milestones as you work toward operationalizing your cloud security - because nothing says “new year, new habits” like aiming for the Zero Criticals Club (and maybe the Zero Code Criticals Club and Zero Time to Respond Club if you’re extra fast).
Use both out-of-the-box and custom metrics to track critical security and compliance indicators for your business. Monitor these at the project level - by team, environment, or other dimensions - and use Boards to give teams visibility into the metrics that matter to them. Your identity team can track how many users and accounts have highly privileged access, while SecOps teams can measure progress toward resolving triggered threats over the past month. With 20+ boards available out of the box, Wiz gives every team the insights they need to track, act, and succeed, no confetti cannon required (but highly encouraged).
Stay Ahead: Explore and Do More
Wiz is constantly evolving, giving you the tools to stay ahead and be more self-sufficient. Our platform makes it easy to explore new capabilities, track upcoming features, and take action, all without needing to contact support. Think of it like your very own cloud security New Year’s buffet: pick what matters most, try it out, and celebrate each release as it lands.
The Preview & Migration Hub lets teams discover our latest product features and upcoming migrations at their own pace. From this page, you can learn about features currently in preview, activate public preview features, share your feedback, or enable upcoming migrations.
The Roadmap Tracker lets you explore the magic ahead in Wiz. Browse Wiz Highlights to see what’s coming, search our detailed roadmap to track planned and in-development features, and tell us what you want Wiz to build next via the Wizdom Community or your technical account manager. Save the features you care about most to your own view, so you’re the first to know when they land, and ready to put them to work.
Finally, Product Updates now live directly in Wiz, putting you in the driver’s seat. Easily filter and sort updates by product, integration, module, release date, and more, so you can focus on the releases that matter most to you, from major platform launches to changes impacting a specific deployment. When action is required, like an upcoming migration, you’ll have clear context, timing, and next steps right where you need them.
Turns Out, Your Cloud Security Resolution Is Sticking
Ninety days in, you’re not scrambling - you’re building. You have clear visibility into risk, defined ownership across teams, and real momentum. Most importantly, you’re set up with a cloud security operating model that keeps pace with how your teams actually build in the cloud.
By this point, teams are acting on insights, reducing high-priority risks, and tracking measurable progress, turning early wins into a foundation for lasting impact.
And day 90? That’s just the beginning. Be on the lookout for more details on how to continue maturing your cloud security program, operationalize more advanced workflows, and keep ahead as your environment evolves.
So if you were worried about keeping at least one resolution this year, don’t be. With Wiz, cloud security is one you’ll keep, and build on.
