Wiz took the cloud security market by storm. Founded by former Microsoft cloud security leaders, the company reached $100 million in ARR faster than any other cybersecurity startup in history. The secret? An agentless approach that connects directly to cloud APIs.
Instead of deploying agents on every workload, Wiz scans cloud environments via API connectors and builds a unified security graph. This graph correlates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposed secrets, identity risks, and malware across the entire cloud stack — VMs, containers, serverless, and data stores.
The platform replaces a patchwork of point solutions — CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, DSPM — with a single console that shows toxic combinations of risk. A misconfigured storage bucket alone might be low-severity, but if it also contains PII and has a public-facing exploit path, Wiz flags that as critical.
Major enterprises including BMW, Slack, and Morgan Stanley have deployed Wiz. The company’s valuation crossed $12 billion by 2024, and it’s become the benchmark for what modern cloud security should look like.
