As organizations accelerate their cloud transformation and adopt autonomous AI systems, traditional security methods reliant on disconnected vulnerability scanners, reactive alert queues, and isolated point solutions can’t keep pace. Security teams today do not need yet another standalone category tool or an isolated CNAPP product. They need clear, unified context on which exposures create real, exploitable attack paths across their entire footprint, how effectively existing security controls perform, and who is responsible for resolution.
They need proactive security rooted in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).
Today, we are excited to share that Wiz has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026. In Forrester’s evaluation of top proactive security providers across 21 criteria, Wiz earned the highest possible scores (5.0 out of 5.0) in eight criteria.
Current Offering Category:
Cloud visibility and exposure
Application visibility and exposure
Exposure validation
Security controls
Remediation augmentation and decisioning
Platform cohesion
Strategy Category:
Innovation
Roadmap
Additionally, we are grateful to be the only evaluated vendor that achieved the highest possible scores (5.0 out of 5.0) in all three of these criteria:
Cloud visibility and exposure
Application visibility and exposure
Remediation augmentation and decisioning
Forrester’s profile on Wiz notes that:
Wiz is a great fit for organizations seeking a cloud-first proactive security platform with strong graph-based context, code-to-cloud visibility, and rapid innovation.
Following our recognition as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms, Q1 2026, we believe this recognition underscores a broader industry evolution. Protecting modern applications requires visibility that reaches far beyond standalone cloud environments. True proactive defense requires breaking down security silos and bringing horizontal visibility, risk correlation, exposure validation, and AI-driven remediation to every digital asset, from code and cloud to SaaS, AI pipelines, and on-premises environments.
Beyond CNAPP: True Horizontal Security Across Cloud, AI, SaaS, and Hybrid Environments
Proactive security cannot happen in isolation. The traditional "Vertical Security" model relies on fragmented point solutions for endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and code. These siloed tools strip data of vital business context, generate vulnerability fatigue, and obscure true risk ownership.
Wiz replaces this fragmented paradigm with "Horizontal Security," unifying teams on a single platform with shared context, true risk correlation, and consistent policies across the entire attack surface. Building upon our core graph architecture, we have expanded the Wiz Security Graph to span cloud, code, AI workloads, SaaS applications, and hybrid on-premises infrastructure.
Wiz delivers comprehensive context across key capabilities:
Unified Cloud, Application, & Hybrid Visibility: Complete coverage leveraging agentless scanning, workload sensors, and native integrations across IaaS, PaaS, containers, code repositories, APIs, SaaS, AI pipelines, and on-premises workloads.
Centralized External Findings with Wiz UVM: Ingesting and unifying findings from existing third-party security tools (such as on-premise vulnerability scanners or SAST/DAST tools) via Wiz Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM) to prioritize them alongside native Wiz signals.
Exposure & Exploitability Validation with Wiz ASM and Red Agent: Leveraging continuous Attack Surface Management (ASM) to discover external exposures and simulate real-world attacks, validating whether critical risks are actually reachable and exploitable.
Accounting for Existing Security Controls: Evaluating the coverage and effectiveness of existing safeguards (such as WAFs, EDRs, IAM controls, and network segmentation) so security teams avoid chasing already-mitigated risks.
Unified CTEM Experience: Consolidating siloed alerts into a single pane of glass where attack paths are prioritized, validated, and remediated seamlessly without tool switching.
By mapping these insights onto the Wiz Security Graph, organizations can move past endless lists of uncontextualized CVEs and focus on eliminating the validated attack paths that threaten their business.
Operationalizing CTEM for AI Threat Readiness
Threat models have fundamentally shifted today. Autonomous AI tools can discover vulnerabilities and generate functional exploits in hours, drastically shrinking the window between discovery and potential weaponization. Traditional patching cycles that take weeks or months create severe exposure gaps.
To defend at machine speed, organizations must adopt a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) strategy. The new Wiz Exposure Management Dashboard serves as a command center for operationalizing CTEM across five core stages:
Scoping: Map the full enterprise footprint across multi-cloud environments, code repositories, on-premises servers, AI models, SaaS apps, and identity providers.
Discovery: Continuously surface underlying risks, including software vulnerabilities, cloud misconfigurations, overly permissive identities, exposed secrets, and sensitive data risks.
Prioritization: Correlate different types of risks on the Wiz Security Graph to identify toxic combinations that form critical attack paths, turning thousands of alerts into prioritized Wiz Issues.
Validation: Test internet-facing endpoints and attack chains from the attacker's perspective using Wiz ASM and Red Agent to confirm real-world exploitability and reachability.
Remediation: Measure risk reduction over time against SLAs, using intelligent automation to route contextual remediation guidance directly to resource owners.
Red, Blue, and Green Agents: The Next Era of Proactive Defense
Prioritizing risks is only part of the challenge. A major point of friction in exposure management remains the handoff: determining who owns an asset, communicating the impact, and applying fixes safely.
Wiz received the highest possible score of 5/5 in the Remediation Augmentation and Decisioning criterion, powered by our investments in agentic AI. As Forrester’s profile on Wiz noted:
Wiz continues to deliver innovative features like red, blue, and green agents, which are already in use by many customers. Its roadmap focuses on improving agentic capabilities, putting Wiz at the forefront for remediation and prioritization.
Our autonomous agents collaborate across the entire proactive lifecycle:
Red Agent: Evaluates multi-cloud attack chains by simulating techniques to verify true exploitability and uncover potential blast radius.
Blue Agent: Connects real-time runtime telemetry directly into investigation workflows, accelerating triage and correlation for SecOps teams.
Green Agent: Connects security and engineering by tracing risks back to their root cause (in code, IaC, or container images), identifying the right owner, and providing contextual remediation code or pull requests.
Rather than dumping tickets into engineering queues, Wiz provides actionable, contextual guidance that empowers developers to remediate risks at the source.
Customer-Led Innovation and What’s Next for Wiz
As modern hybrid infrastructure and AI ecosystems grow in complexity, Wiz will continue expanding agentic defense capabilities, deepening graph-based insights across AI pipelines and on-premises environments, and empowering security and development teams to reduce exposure everywhere.
Following the closing of Google’s acquisition of Wiz in March 2026, we reaffirmed our commitment to remaining open, multi-cloud, and relentlessly customer-centric. For us, earning 5/5 scores in both the Innovation and Roadmap criteria reflects our ongoing focus on innovating alongside our customers. As cloud and AI environments advance, we will keep building out agentic capabilities, deepening graph-based insights across AI pipelines, and streamlining proactive defense for security and development teams alike.
To our customers, partners, and the entire Wiz team: thank you. To us, this recognition is a reflection of your collaboration, feedback, and shared vision for what proactive cloud and AI security should be.
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Forrester Research, Inc., “The Forrester Wave™: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026,” by Erik Nost et al., Q3 2026. Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. This report is part of a broader collection of Forrester resources, including interactive models, frameworks, tools, data, and access to analyst guidance. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.
