Looking for a Wiz alternative? Whether you're doing due diligence or trying to understand where Wiz fits in the CNAPP landscape, this guide breaks down the key alternatives across cloud security categories—posture, identity, data, threat detection, and application security. You’ll also see where Wiz stands apart and when it may take multiple tools to match its coverage.
Why you might be exploring Wiz alternatives
Cloud security is a whole different ball game than it was just a few years ago, so it’s more important than ever to find a cutting-edge solution that can keep up with emerging threats.
While enterprises urgently need a strong and stress-free cloud security stack to protect their environments, shopping for cloud security solutions can be overwhelming. That’s because the cloud security market, on track to reach almost $63 billion by 2028, is filled to the brim with different solutions from a wide range of providers. With limited resources and hundreds of cloud security tools to choose from, businesses have to make educated cloud security investment decisions.
So what are most organizations looking for when it comes to cloud security? Most businesses seek holistic cloud security platforms that deliver complete coverage across posture, workloads, data, identity, and threat detection rather than managing disparate point solutions for each area.
But even though many cloud security tools have these features, remember that not all platforms are built the same: The smallest security blind spot or deficiency in an otherwise strong tool can cause serious issues.
In this guide, we’ll give you a clear picture of the cloud security alternatives to Wiz but also provide a no-nonsense breakdown of why there’s no exact substitute.
Why there’s no one-to-one alternative to Wiz
Wiz is a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP), a security solution that was built to address the cloud’s unique risks. Under one roof, Wiz CNAPP covers infrastructure security, data security, identity security, and cloud detection and response. Wiz also has AI security posture, code security, container security, and cloud compliance capabilities, making it an end-to-end, all-in-one cloud security platform.
Wiz covers the entire spectrum of cloud application security, including:
Secure cloud development via Wiz Code
Secure cloud infrastructure via Wiz Cloud
Cloud detection and response via Wiz Defend
What’s cool about Wiz’s tools and capabilities is that they’re built in-house and are not just a mishmash of disparate acquisitions. This makes Wiz more unified than a lot of other options. And while there are many alternatives, you’ll probably have to get three to five other security tools in place of Wiz because most tools cover only a sliver of what Wiz covers.
Also, without Wiz’s unified capabilities, there’s a risk of losing correlation and cloud contexts—key ingredients for staying on top of emerging risks. Too many siloed security tools can increase operational burden, which can become a security vulnerability over time.
That said, let’s take a closer look at Wiz alternatives, what they offer, and what they may lack before you make any major cloud security decisions.
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Wiz alternatives by capability area
This section lays out functional categories and shows which vendors specialize in each area.
1. Cloud security posture management (CSPM)
One of Wiz’s many core capabilities, CSPM focuses on detecting cloud misconfigurations and compliance issues. Wiz continuously scans your entire cloud environment—across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes—to identify misconfigurations, insecure defaults, and compliance drift. But unlike traditional CSPMs that report isolated issues, Wiz connects those findings to vulnerabilities, identities, exposed data, and internet reachability. Through the Wiz Security Graph, security teams get a prioritized, context-rich view of risk that highlights toxic combinations and real attack paths.
Here are some alternatives to Wiz:
Cortex Cloud (Palo Alto Networks): A CNAPP solution that features CSPM and cloud workload protection (CWP) capabilities and simple deployment options
Microsoft Defender for Cloud: A CSPM and CWP tool that’s built to address Azure security but is compatible with other cloud services
Tenable Cloud Security (Ermetic): A CNAPP that uses an identity-centric methodology to uncover cloud misconfigurations and other threats
2. Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM)
CIEM focuses on detecting and remediating overly permissive identities and privilege misuse across cloud environments. Misconfigurations might open the door, but over-permissioned identities often walk through it. Wiz correlates identity access to real asset exposure—so you don’t just know who can do what, but what that actually puts at risk.
Wiz automatically maps every human and machine identity to its effective permissions and access paths—across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes. Instead of showing long lists of permissions, Wiz highlights which identities have risky access to sensitive data or exploitable workloads, surfacing only the risks that are part of real attack paths. The result? Actionable identity security that’s tightly integrated with broader posture and data risks.
Here are a few Wiz alternatives that specialize in CIEM:
Sonrai Security: A hybrid-cloud CIEM solution that zeros in on attack paths and data risks/relationships tied to misconfigured and overprivileged identities
Veza: A data-centric identity security posture tool that can help right-size entitlements for human and non-human identities across cloud environments
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management: A zero trust–driven CIEM system that enables cross-platform visibility and permissions management across AWS, Azure, and GCP services
3. Data security posture management (DSPM)
DSPM tools help discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across cloud environments—critical for preventing data breaches and ensuring compliance. But with the rise of AI and LLM-powered applications, DSPM must also account for new types of sensitive data and risks.
Wiz automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data—including PII, PHI, secrets, and intellectual property—across object storage, databases, data lakes, and now, AI-related data pipelines and models. It maps this data to its exposure context: Is it accessible from the internet? Over-permissioned? Connected to a risky identity or workload?
As organizations build and deploy AI workloads, Wiz extends DSPM into AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) by identifying:
LLM services and vector databases handling sensitive data
AI pipelines and APIs exposed to the internet
Over-permissive access to training data, prompts, or model endpoints
Shadow AI assets deployed without governance or oversight
Because DSPM and AI-SPM are integrated into the Wiz Security Graph, security teams can see how AI data risks intersect with broader misconfigurations, identity exposure, and threat detection—making it easier to secure AI usage as part of overall cloud posture management.
Here are some key DSPM players in the market:
Cyera: An AI/ML-driven data security platform with DSPM, data loss prevention (DLP), data privacy, and identity data access management capabilities
Sentra: An AI-powered, cloud-native platform focused on large-scale classification and protection of both structured and unstructured data
BigID: A data intelligence platform with DSPM, DLP, and data detection and response capabilities for petabyte-scale data protection
Laminar (Rubrik): A DSPM solution with data detection and response, data access governance, discovery, classification, and risk management capabilities
4. Cloud detection and response (CDR)
CDR identifies active threats in cloud environments—ranging from anomalous API calls to malware running in workloads.
Wiz Defend surfaces real threats across your cloud environment—not just alerts. It analyzes control plane activity, workload behavior, identity patterns, and data access to detect attacks in progress and early indicators of compromise.
Unlike tools that trigger isolated alerts, Wiz Defend connects detections to posture risks, toxic combinations, and the full blast radius using the Security Graph. That means you don’t just know something is wrong—you know what it affects, how it happened, and how to respond.
Whether it's lateral movement between cloud services, suspicious data access by over-permissioned identities, or anomalous activity inside a workload, Wiz Defend gives your team the full context to investigate fast and act with confidence.
CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security: Strong runtime protection, especially for VMs and containers
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud: Real-time threat detection across multi-cloud workloads
Sysdig: Runtime threat detection for containers and Kubernetes
Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Native Azure CDR; limited breadth and correlation across clouds
5. Application Security / ASPM (Application Security Posture Management)
ASPM secures the software development lifecycle (SDLC), helping organizations catch risks earlier in code, builds, and pipelines.
Wiz Code integrates directly into developer workflows to scan IaC, Dockerfiles, VM images, secrets, and dependencies—surfacing risks at commit and pull request. It links code-level issues to what’s actually exploitable in runtime via the Security Graph, so dev and security teams can focus on fixing exploitable risks—not chasing every policy violation. Wiz also generates SBOMs, enforces policy-as-code, and supports secure CI/CD pipelines.
Here are a few alternative tools focused on application security and ASPM:
Snyk: An IaC security tool built for developers and DevOps teams to secure integrated development environments, version control systems, and CI/CD pipelines
Checkov (Bridgecrew by Prisma Cloud): A static code analysis tool that can discover security vulnerabilities in IaC files
GitHub Advanced Security: A CodeQL-powered code scanning tool to secure and maintain high-quality code across internal and public code repositories
Tenable Cloud Security: A cloud security platform with an IaC component that features PaC-based policy management and secrets exposure management
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Why organizations choose Wiz
Cloud security isn’t just about coverage – it’s how you see it, understand it, and act on it. Organizations choose Wiz because it brings deep, connected visibility across the entire cloud stack and aligns teams around a single, prioritized view of risk.
Comprehensive protection, one platform. Wiz combines CSPM, DSPM, CIEM, CDR, ASPM, and more—built natively, not bolted together—so teams can secure cloud infrastructure, identities, data, applications, and workloads without juggling point tools. With everything tied together—from CI/CD to runtime detections—Wiz eliminates the context-switching that slows down response and increases risk.
Unified context from code to runtime. Whether scanning IaC and containers pre-deploy or detecting threats in production environments, Wiz ties everything back to a single Security Graph that highlights toxic combinations and real attack paths.
Built for collaboration, not silos. Developers, cloud security engineers, and incident responders all work off the same correlated insights—catching risks early, understanding blast radius fast, and reducing friction between teams.
Scalable for the enterprise. Wiz supports complex, multi-cloud environments at scale—trusted by over half the Fortune 100 to protect millions of assets without compromising speed or depth.
Fast time to value, flexible deployment. Whether through read-only API access, runtime sensors, or pipeline integrations, Wiz adapts to how teams work—providing actionable visibility without disrupting workflows.
What sets Wiz apart
Wiz is one of the few platforms that protects every stage of the cloud application lifecycle—from code to runtime—while unifying the teams responsible for securing it.
Most cloud security tools focus on a single phase or persona. Wiz stands out by bringing developers, DevOps, cloud security engineers, and incident responders together in one platform, backed by a shared security graph and correlated insights. That means:
Developers and platform teams catch misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, secrets, and policy violations early with in-code scanning, pull request checks, and IaC validation.
Cloud security and DevSecOps teams gain full-stack visibility into posture risks, identity threats, and exposed data—prioritized by real attack path analysis, not alert volume.
Incident response teams move faster with blast radius analysis, root cause visibility, and contextual runtime detections powered by the Wiz Security Graph.
With Wiz, all stakeholders work from the same source of truth—whether they’re securing infrastructure-as-code or investigating suspicious activity in production. That’s how leading organizations reduce risk, improve collaboration, and move faster in the cloud.
Still evaluating? Here’s how to compare platforms firsthand
We know how difficult navigating the cloud security market can be. But all you need to do is get a sense of what the market’s best solutions offer, and you’ll be able to make a clear and confident decision.
If you’re ready to see how Wiz compares to the rest of the cloud security market, request a demo, and we’ll show you how we stack up—no pressure, just visibility.