# Wiz > Wiz is a cloud and AI security platform that helps organizations protect everything they build and run, from the first line of code through production. ## Academy Evergreen educational content on cloud and AI security topics, written for security and engineering practitioners. - [CNAPP 101: An Intro to Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms](https://www.wiz.io/academy/cloud-security/what-is-a-cloud-native-application-protection-platform-cnapp): Foundational guide to cloud native application protection platforms, what they are, how they work, and why they matter. - [What is AI-APP? A security guide to AI Application Protection Platforms](https://www.wiz.io/academy/ai-security/ai-app-ai-application-protection-platform): Introduces the AI-APP category and explains how organizations can secure AI applications from code to runtime. - [What is API Security? Risks, Standards, and FAQs](https://www.wiz.io/academy/api-security/what-is-api-security): Covers the strategies, procedures, and solutions used to defend APIs against threats, vulnerabilities, and unauthorized access. - [What Is Application Security? AppSec Uses, Tools, and Tips](https://www.wiz.io/academy/application-security/what-is-application-security): Overview of how organizations identify, mitigate, and protect applications from vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle. - [Data Security: The Ultimate Resource Hub](https://www.wiz.io/academy/data-security): Resource hub covering how organizations protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and AI systems, including classification, governance, and end-to-end security. - [Cloud Compliance 101: Regulations and Best Practices](https://www.wiz.io/academy/compliance/cloud-compliance-fast-track-guide): Guide to cloud compliance regulations and best practices for security and engineering teams. - [What is Container Security?](https://www.wiz.io/academy/container-security/what-is-container-security): Covers the processes and tools required to protect containerized applications and their environments from security threats. - [What Is Cloud Cost?](https://www.wiz.io/academy/cloud-cost/what-are-cloud-costs): Overview of total cloud spend across compute, storage, networking, licensing, and third-party services in public cloud environments. - [Threat Intelligence: Types, Lifecycle, and Use Cases](https://www.wiz.io/academy/threat-intel/what-is-threat-intelligence): Explains the systematic collection and analysis of data about current and emerging cyber threats to help organizations make informed security decisions. - [What is Vulnerability Management?](https://www.wiz.io/academy/vulnerability-management/what-is-vulnerability-management): Covers the continuous process of finding, prioritizing, and fixing security weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. - [Threat Detection and Response (TDR) Explained](https://www.wiz.io/academy/detection-and-response/threat-detection-and-response-tdr): Explains how TDR combines continuous monitoring, threat identification, investigation, and containment to find and stop attacks before they cause damage. - [What is AI Security? Securing Models, Agents & Data](https://www.wiz.io/academy/what-is-ai-security): Covers the dual practice of using AI tools for cybersecurity and protecting AI systems themselves, including models, pipelines, and the data they touch. - [What is CSPM? Cloud Security Posture Management](https://www.wiz.io/academy/cloud-security/what-is-cloud-security-posture-management-cspm): Explains how CSPM tools continuously monitor cloud configurations to identify and remediate risks and misconfigurations across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. - [Model Context Protocol Security Explained](https://www.wiz.io/academy/ai-security/model-context-protocol-security): Covers how MCP creates direct pathways between AI systems and enterprise resources, the security risks that introduces, and how to secure MCP implementations. ## Blog Product announcements, company news, and updates from Wiz. - [Wiz Launches AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP)](https://www.wiz.io/blog/introducing-wiz-ai-app): Launch announcement for Wiz AI-APP, covering how it closes the context gap across every layer of AI application security. - [AI Threat Readiness Pillar 1: Reduce Critical Exposures & Scan with AI](https://www.wiz.io/blog/ai-threat-readiness-pillar-1): Deep dive into the first pillar of the AI Threat Readiness Framework and how Wiz helps organizations reduce their riskiest exposures. - [AI Threat Readiness Pillar 2: Accelerate Patching & Response](https://www.wiz.io/blog/ai-threat-readiness-pillar-2): How to operationalize the second pillar of AI Threat Readiness, including automating remediation workflows and resolving risks at machine speed. - [Introducing Wiz Agents & Workflows: Security at the Speed of AI](https://www.wiz.io/blog/introducing-wiz-agents): Launch announcement for Wiz AI Agents (Red, Blue, and Green) and Workflows, a new security operating model that removes bottlenecks and enables teams to act at the speed of AI. - [A Framework for AI Threat Readiness](https://www.wiz.io/blog/ai-threat-readiness-framework): Introduces Wiz's 4-pillar framework for AI Threat Readiness, covering how to eliminate critical risk, accelerate patching, perform deep AI code analysis, and detect and respond to threats in real time. - [AI Runtime Threat Detection: From Input to Real-World Impact](https://www.wiz.io/blog/ai-runtime-threat-detection-from-input-to-real-world-impact): Explains how Wiz detects AI-driven threats across the full execution path of an AI application, from model input to agent behavior to cloud impact. ## Platform Wiz product and feature pages covering the core platform capabilities. - [Wiz Cloud and AI Security Platform](https://www.wiz.io/platform): Overview of the Wiz platform, built to secure cloud and AI applications from code to runtime. - [Wiz AI-Powered Security](https://www.wiz.io/platform/ai-powered-wiz): How Wiz uses specialized AI security agents powered by the Wiz Security Graph to transform security operations. - [AI Threat Readiness](https://www.wiz.io/platform/ai-threat-readiness): How Wiz surfaces the riskiest exposures and helps organizations outpace modern AI-powered attackers. - [Wiz Code](https://www.wiz.io/platform/wiz-code): Unified security across code, CI/CD, and cloud environments, helping teams start secure from the first line of code. - [Wiz Cloud](https://www.wiz.io/platform/wiz-cloud): Agentless visibility and risk prioritization that proactively reduces the attack surface across any cloud, platform, or AI environment. - [Wiz Defend](https://www.wiz.io/platform/wiz-defend): Runtime protection and threat detection and response built for cloud environments. ## Solutions Wiz solution pages covering specific security capabilities and use cases. - [AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/ai-spm): Secures AI applications with continuous visibility and proactive risk mitigation across models, training data, and AI services. - [Vulnerability Management](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/vulnerability-management): Unified vulnerability management across cloud workloads, containers, and code, prioritized by real exploitability and business context. - [Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/cspm): Continuously monitors cloud configurations to identify and remediate misconfigurations and risks across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. - [Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/ciem): Manages cloud identities and entitlements to reduce overprivileged access and eliminate identity-based attack paths. - [Exposure Management](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/exposure-management): Continuously discovers and reduces the external attack surface by identifying and prioritizing exposed assets and risks. - [Attack Surface Management (ASM)](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/asm): Discovers internet-facing assets, APIs, and identities to give security teams a complete view of their external exposure. - [Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/dspm): Discovers and protects sensitive data across cloud environments, identifying where data is exposed, who can access it, and how it flows. - [Cloud Compliance](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/compliance): Automates compliance monitoring and reporting across frameworks including SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST, and CIS Benchmarks. - [Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Scanning](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/iac): Scans IaC templates to catch misconfigurations and security issues before they reach production. - [WizOS: Secured Container Images](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/wizos): Hardened, minimal container base images that reduce the attack surface and eliminate unnecessary packages from the start. - [Static Application Security Testing (SAST)](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/sast): Analyzes source code to detect security vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle. - [Supply Chain Security](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/supply-chain-security): Identifies vulnerabilities and risks across open source dependencies, third-party packages, and the software supply chain. - [Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/aspm): Connects code, cloud, and runtime context to give security and development teams a unified view of application risk. - [Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP)](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/cwpp): Protects cloud workloads including VMs, containers, and serverless functions with agentless visibility and runtime security. - [Runtime Sensor](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/runtime-sensor): Provides deep runtime visibility into workload behavior, processes, and network activity for threat detection and response. - [Container & Kubernetes Security](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/container-and-kubernetes-security): Secures containers and Kubernetes environments with visibility into misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and runtime threats. - [Cloud Cost](https://www.wiz.io/solutions/cloud-cost): Helps organizations understand and optimize cloud spend across compute, storage, networking, and third-party services. ## Reports Threat research, vulnerability disclosures, and security reports published by Wiz. - [Cloud Threats Retrospective 2026](https://www.wiz.io/reports/cloud-threat-retrospective-2026): Wiz Research analysis of how systemic weaknesses and AI amplified the impact of proven cloud threats in 2026. - [AI Security Readiness: Insights from Security Professionals](https://www.wiz.io/reports/ai-security-readiness): Survey of 100 cloud leaders on where organizations stand on AI security, what risks they face, and how they are protecting fast-moving AI environments. - [State of SDLC Security 2026](https://www.wiz.io/reports/sdlc-security-report-2026): Wiz Research report on how software reuse, automation, and AI are reshaping where risk emerges across the software development lifecycle. - [State of AI in the Cloud 2026](https://www.wiz.io/reports/state-of-ai-in-the-cloud-2026): Annual Wiz Research report on how AI adoption, autonomy, and attacker innovation are reshaping cloud security, based on data across thousands of cloud environments.