Cloud environments can generate millions of security findings, from critical vulnerabilities and exposed secrets to sensitive data risks. Wiz already helps organizations cut through that noise with Risk Issues, which correlate toxic combinations across risk domains to reveal the most critical attack paths in your cloud.
Risk Issues highlight the most urgent risks in your environment and help cloud security teams prioritize and fix the issues that matter most. This focus on Risk Issues has enabled security teams to focus on what matters most, making zero critical issues a reality, a milestone already achieved by 50% of Wiz customers today.
Today, we are introducing Posture Issues for your vulnerability management and data security teams. This new capability is built for the other side of the security challenge: findings that aren’t immediately exploitable but still need to be addressed to maintain a strong security posture over time. Unlike Risk Issues, which span multiple domains, Posture Issues group findings within a single domain, such as vulnerabilities, secrets, or data. By consolidating many findings into a single actionable Issue, Posture Issues give security teams a structured way to align with internal programs, meet compliance requirements and SLAs faster, tackle backlogs at scale, and measure long-term progress in security posture.
Posture Issues: A Framework for Managing Security Debt
For teams focused on continuous security, whether managing vulnerabilities or remediating data and secrets, the challenge lies in handling the volume of findings needed to maintain compliance and strong security hygiene. The unstructured volume of these findings makes it hard to maintain and measure real security maturity. While cloud security teams are focused on handling the most urgent risks in your environment (Risk Issues), a backlog of CVEs, data, or secrets remains to be fixed. This creates technical debt and leaves vulnerability management and data security teams struggling to prioritize and take action on this backlog to maintain their compliance or hygiene status.
The Hidden Cost of Posture Debt
Every unpatched CVE, non-critical misconfiguration, or policy gap that isn’t part of a toxic combination of risk rolls into a growing backlog - your organization's security debt. That debt creates three major workflow challenges for your security teams:
Compliance gridlock: Meeting compliance requirements and SLAs often means tackling thousands of low-to-medium findings. Without structure, validating and remediating for this long tail becomes a manual, time-consuming process that slows audits and drains team capacity.
Unmanageable volume: After addressing critical Risk Issues, teams still face a flood of findings. When everything is lumped into one list, it makes it hard to prioritize those findings and show real progress on security hygiene.
Remediation Consolidation Gap: Many teams struggle to pinpoint a single fix that resolves multiple related findings. Without grouping findings by the actual remediation step, they face fragmented noise instead of clear priorities, making it hard to know what’s done and what still needs attention.
Reclaiming the Backlog: A New Workflow for Security Maintenance
Posture Issues gives security teams a framework for disciplined, strategic maintenance:
Structured remediation path: Secrets, vulnerabilities, and data findings that aren’t immediately exploitable are organized with Posture Policies. This turns a noisy list into focused, manageable projects that can be assigned, tracked, and worked through efficiently.
SLAs and compliance made visible: By promoting Findings into Posture Issues through Posture Policies, your remediation teams can associate remediation activity directly to SLAs and audit requirements, as defined by your Posture Policies. The result is clear, auditable proof of long-term security hygiene and a much simpler path to demonstrating compliance.
Customizable prioritization of the backlog: Use Posture Policies to define your own prioritization logic. For example, you can automatically generate Posture Issues for all vulnerabilities with a CVSS score of 8 or higher that have a fix and a public exploit in production environments, and require they be patched within 14 days. This helps teams manage their backlog intelligently, align work with business priorities, and measure progress against them.
Posture Issues in Action
Posture Issues are driven by Posture Policies. These policies define how findings in a specific risk domain, like vulnerabilities, are grouped and promoted into Posture Issues. Wiz provides ready-to-use policies, and customers can adjust or create their own to match their needs.
Let’s See Posture Issues in Action:
Get Ready to Strengthen your Long-Term Security
The launch of Posture Issues is a step forward in the overall security of an organization. It gives teams a sustainable workflow to build and maintain security maturity:
Achieve a Zero Criticals Baseline: Use Risk Issues to remediate all immediate, high-risk attack paths and eliminate toxic combinations. Celebrate this milestone by joining Wiz’s Zero Critical Club.
Continuously harden posture: Once Zero Criticals Risk Issues are achieved, Posture Issues provide a clear way to tackle the long tail of findings and begin the continuous process of security hygiene, hardening your cloud, and staying on track with compliance targets.
This structured approach moves teams from reacting to Issues to operationalizing long-term resilience. Wiz Cloud Advanced customers can now explore Posture Issues and take a more structured, sustainable approach to security hygiene.
Ready to address your long term security posture? Wiz Cloud Advanced customers can start using the new capabilities in the Wiz Platform. Learn more about Posture Issues (login required).
