Challenge
Managing a rapidly growing multi-cloud environment made it difficult for Redis to maintain clear, real-time visibility into their cloud footprint and the relationships between their cloud resources.
Fragmented security tools across clouds created blind spots, limiting consistent detection and a unified security approach.
Security analysts spent too much time manually stitching together data to understand alerts and determine real risk.
Solution
Redis gained unified visibility across its entire cloud estate with Wiz, enabling clear insight into accounts, configurations, and service connections.
By deploying Wiz Runtime Sensors across all GKE clusters, Redis established a consistent detection strategy across cloud environments.
Wiz’s AI-powered SecOps capabilities, namely the Blue Agent, sped up investigation and context collection, helping analysts quickly focus on real threats.
Minutes to hours deployment time
versus weeks or months
100% consistent threat detection
across entire multi-cloud estate
Platform consolidation
from multi-tool strategy to unified Wiz platform
Company Background
Redis started as an open-source project with a simple but uncompromising mission: make technology fast. More than a decade later, that philosophy still defines the company, now as the world’s most loved real-time data platform, powering applications and games that process massive volumes of data across industries, from global enterprises to fast-moving crypto companies.
Speed is not just a product attribute at Redis - it is a company-wide operating principle. As Redis evolved from its open-source roots into a full platform, offering enterprise on-premises products alongside managed cloud services, that emphasis on velocity never changed. The open-source community continues to fuel adoption, while cloud offerings help customers move faster with less operational burden.
That same mindset shapes how Redis approaches security. For Justin Lachesky, Director of Cyber Resilience at Redis, security must scale at the speed of the business or it becomes a liability.
“The security strategy at Redis really fits in with that core DNA of being fast, being able to keep up with the pace of change,” Lachesky said.
As Redis’s cloud footprint expanded, the security team needed a platform that could move just as fast as their engineers.
The Challenge: Cloud Complexity at Scale
Redis’s growth brought scale and with it complexity. Hundreds to thousands of cloud accounts across multiple providers made it increasingly difficult for the security team to answer basic questions. What is running? How is it configured? And how does it all connect?
“The biggest challenge we faced was just understanding what was there,” Lachesky explained. “Not just inventory, but how things were configured, what was running, and how everything interconnected across clouds.”
Without a unified view, applying consistent security controls and detection strategies was nearly impossible. Each cloud came with its own tooling, alerts, and workflows, forcing analysts to stitch together context manually.
The single biggest challenge the modern SOC faces is complexity. The perimeter is fuzzy, the lines between internal and external are blurred, and cloud-native environments change constantly.
Justin Lachesky, Director, Cyber Resilience, Redis
That complexity did not just affect the SOC. Product teams wanted to move fast, spin up new environments, and launch new services. Security needed visibility and detection before they could feel confident, but traditional approaches could not keep up with Redis’s pace.
The Solution: Visibility Without Friction
When Redis evaluated cloud security platforms, speed was non-negotiable.
“The speed to deploy and get value was the biggest driver,” Lachesky said. “This wasn’t a year-long agent rollout. It was centralized, manageable, and fast, even across a large distributed environment.”
With Wiz’s agentless approach, Redis gained immediate visibility across its entire cloud estate, measured in minutes or hours instead of weeks or months.
Just as important was Wiz’s true multi-cloud coverage. “Being genuinely multi-cloud meant we didn’t have to compromise visibility in one environment versus another,” Lachesky explained. “We knew we’d see everything, everywhere, in a consistent way.”
That consistency became the foundation for Redis’s broader cloud security strategy, allowing the team to consolidate tooling, standardize detection, and build smarter workflows on top of a single platform.
Consistent Threat Detection with Wiz Defend
Once visibility was in place, Redis focused on detection. The goal was not just to detect threats, but to do it consistently across clouds, configurations, and technologies.
Redis deployed Wiz Sensors across all production GKE clusters, establishing a unified detection layer that operates independently of underlying infrastructure.
We’ve shifted away from a multi-platform, multi-technology detection strategy to focusing on Wiz. Wiz has the visibility and context to apply detection in a way that actually matches how our cloud operates.
Justin Lachesky, Director, Cyber Resilience, Redis
The impact was immediate. Detection logic, threat intelligence, and behavioral analysis are now applied uniformly across Redis’s cloud environment.
“Regardless of which cloud or how it’s configured, we know we’re getting the same level of threat understanding everywhere,” Lachesky said. For the security team, that meant fewer blind spots, fewer assumptions, and far greater confidence in their coverage.
AI-Powered Context for Faster Decisions
With consistent detection across the cloud, Redis turned to the next challenge: investigation speed. High-quality detection is only valuable if analysts can quickly understand and act on threat alerts.
Traditional investigation workflows that rely on pivoting across tools, correlating signals, and determining intent do not scale well in large cloud environments.
Redis adopted the Blue Agent to eliminate that friction.
“The most impactful way AI agents help us is by reducing the time it takes to understand what we’re seeing,” Lachesky said. “They contextualize alerts and explain what happened without manual investigation.”
Rather than replacing analysts, the Blue Agent accelerates them by helping teams quickly distinguish between benign anomalies and real risk.
My favorite thing about the Blue Agent is how quickly it helps us understand why an alert happened and what it actually means in our environment.
Justin Lachesky, Director, Cyber Resilience, Redis
For a company that prioritizes speed, that context is critical.
What’s Next: Building a Faster, Smarter SOC
With Wiz as its cloud security foundation, Redis is now focused less on catching up and more on what comes next.
Instead of spending time stitching together visibility or maintaining fragmented tooling, the security team is investing in deeper detection strategies, smarter automation, and tighter alignment with engineering teams. Wiz gives Redis the confidence to standardize security across new services as they launch, without slowing development.
Security is no longer a gating function. It is an embedded capability that scales automatically as Redis’s cloud grows.
“At the heart of the modern SOC is technology that can handle complexity and give us context fast,” Lachesky said. “That’s what allows us to stay ahead as the environment and the threats keep changing.”
As Redis continues to expand its cloud platform and push the boundaries of real-time data, Wiz enables the security team to focus on what matters most: staying fast, staying consistent, and staying ahead of risk, no matter how complex the cloud becomes.
