Challenge
As Octus scaled through organic growth and acquisitions, fragmented cloud environments and diverse workloads drove a surge in complexity, making cloud security increasingly difficult to manage. There was no unified view across cloud accounts, creating visibility gaps and reactive workflows. Siloed tools produced excessive noise, overwhelming a lean security team and eroding developer trust.
Increase in the number of AI tools and resources expanded potential vulnerabilities.
Compliance and audit readiness required manual, time-consuming effort.
Solution
Octus achieved complete visibility across all cloud environments, eliminating blind spots while also reducing noise.
Teams have a single view of AI workloads, catching risky patterns early.
Tech leads and DevOps triage and remediate issues independently, with self-service enabled through Jira and Slack integrations.
50% reduction
in mean time to remediation
Zero Criticals
status achieved and maintained across cloud environments
Hours saved weekly
in security operations for the AI lead alone due to a unified dashboard
Company Overview
Octus is a credit intelligence platform serving 40,000 professionals at top buyside firms, investment banks, law firms and advisory firms globally. Operating in a high-stakes industry, the company provides proprietary data and AI tools like CreditAI and FinDox within a secure, compliance-ready environment.
As Octus scaled from a startup to a global enterprise, its infrastructure expanded into a complex multi-cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This growth, fueled by rapid acquisitions, required the security team to manage a widening attack surface and stricter regulatory demands while maintaining operational agility.
Octus’ Challenge: Blind Spots Across Multi-Cloud Environments
As Octus’ business grew, they began evaluating cloud security solutions that would help them be proactive in mitigating risk at scale.
"Prior to implementing Wiz we lacked a single view of oversight into our cloud environments because we were spread across multiple cloud hosting providers,” says Vishal Saxena, Chief Technology Officer at Octus. “It was a very manual effort. We were operating in a state of 'reactive blindness' with no unified view."
Their goal was to move beyond simply finding problems to systematically improving security maturity across all business units.
Visualizing Risk with the Wiz Security Graph
The visualization provided by the Wiz Security Graph was the “aha” moment for the Octus team. Unlike traditional tools that provide flat lists of vulnerabilities, the graph maps the relationship between resources, exposing the actual path an attacker could take to reach critical assets. Both Vishal and his Senior Director of Cybersecurity Supreet Kaur had previously used Wiz and recognized that this context-aware approach was the only way to effectively prioritize engineering resources.
Wiz was suddenly a no-brainer for us. Supreet and I had used Wiz in our prior lives, so we were all very familiar with it and very confident that it’s the right tool.
Vishal Saxena, CTO, Octus
Democratizing Security at Octus with Wiz
Deploying Wiz marked a fundamental shift at Octus from a "gatekeeper" security model to a "self-service" approach. This wasn't merely a technical migration, but a deliberate global technology level investment in changing the company's security DNA. Instead of security acting as a bottleneck, tech leads and developers are empowered to take ownership of the security posture for their specific products.
I can link developers directly to the graph so they know exactly where to look. They have access, context, and clarity.
Supreet Kaur, Senior Director of Cybersecurity, Octus
Leaders at Octus recognized that for "self-service" to work, security had to become a frictionless part of the daily routine rather than an interrupted task. By integrating Wiz with Jira and Slack, Octus ensured that context-rich alerts are routed directly into existing developer workflows. This integration transformed security from a “check-the-box” exercise into a core business process.
When an issue is flagged, the ticket includes specific remediation steps, eliminating the friction caused by manual analysis and "back-and-forth" emails between departments.
“My DevOps team can self-service now,” says Saxena. “They don't wait for security analysis. They get a Slack alert, see the issue, understand why it matters, and get specific remediation steps. That cuts the resolution time in half."
From Alert Fatigue to Actionable Intelligence
The transformation in how Octus approached alerts centered on Attack Path Analysis, which maps potential routes attackers could use to compromise security systems.
Wiz’s Attack Path Analysis doesn't just list vulnerabilities. It maps how an attacker could move... we can ignore 90% of the noise and focus our engineering resources on the 1% of issues that represent a true breach path. [Wiz has] moved from patching everything to securing what matters.
Vishal Saxena, CTO, Octus
Securing AI with Wiz
Octus views AI as a core component of its software stack, meaning AI security must be integrated into their broader cloud security platform rather than treated as a silo. Operationally, the unified dashboard for AI workloads brought immediate benefits. The AI lead, who previously had to check three separate cloud consoles for visibility, now has a complete view in one dashboard, resulting in several hours per week saved in security operations alone.
This visibility is critical as development teams rapidly spin up new AI resources. For example, Wiz identified a risk where Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases were being created manually, generating unique IAM roles without guardrail enforcement.
Without Wiz's AI-specific checks, we wouldn't have caught this until a compliance audit or an actual incident. We saw the pattern early and built a remediation plan before any of these went into production with sensitive data...
Vishal Saxena, CTO, Octus
By catching these vulnerabilities early, Octus has established a blueprint for safe AI adoption. It allowed the business to move quickly with the assurance that every new Bedrock instance or model endpoint is automatically mapped against their existing security standards.
Wiz gave my team the leverage to punch above our weight. Complete visibility means we spend time on strategy instead of hunting for problems. That confidence lets us say yes to business initiatives we'd have to slow down otherwise.
David Barker, Head of Security, Octus
Looking Ahead
By aligning their infrastructure with Wiz and Terraform, Octus has transitioned from reactive triage to proactively eliminating vulnerabilities. This established security blueprint allowed Octus to successfully integrate recent acquisitions into their security standards within months.
For example, they were able to quantify the security posture of their most recent acquisition, Sky Road, on day one using Wiz—an evaluation that would have been impossible with the startup's previous manual processes.
As Octus continues to scale, they are headed toward further tool consolidation. The team plans to expand their use of Wiz Code to replace legacy scanners, providing a single, unified language for risk across the entire development lifecycle.
