Log4Shell Meltdown: How to protect your cloud from this critical RCE threat

Log4Shell Meltdown: How to protect your cloud from this critical RCE threat. In this post, we’ll provide a quick overview of Log4Shell: what it is, its impact, and recommendations for security teams...

Wiz magic shifts left

Fixing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in the pipeline before deployment makes perfect sense - it reduces the overall threat footprint and saves time. Wiz offers customers a straightforward way to operationalize a Shift Left strategy...

Assess your cloud compliance posture in minutes

With Wiz, you can assess your compliance posture across industry standards and business units at a glance to immediately pinpoint your weak spots...

Wiz integrates with the new Amazon Inspector for enhanced security insights, context, and accuracy

Wiz is excited to announce it is a launch partner for the new Amazon Inspector, bringing Amazon Inspector findings together with Wiz insights to give our customers actionable, prioritized and contextually rich security insights...

Security industry call to action: we need a cloud vulnerability database

In the pre-cloud era, the responsibility for security was fully in the hands of the users. As we uncover new types of vulnerabilities, we discover more and more issues that do not fit the current model. Solution: we need a centralized cloud vulnerabilities database...

ChaosDB explained: Azure's Cosmos DB vulnerability walkthrough

This is the full story of the Azure ChaosDB Vulnerability that was discovered and disclosed by the Wiz Research Team, where we were able to gain complete unrestricted access to the databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers...

How we broke the cloud with two lines of code: the full story of ChaosDB

A summary and recording of Wiz's talk at BlackHat Europe 2021: the full extent of ChaosDB, the impact it had, and the questions it raises about security in managed cloud services...

Celebrating Our Series C: Zero to $6 Billion in 18 Months

Customers have come to realize ignorance isn’t bliss. Cloud has gotten too big and unwieldy for most companies to effectively manage on their own. That’s where Wiz comes in...

Protecting cloud environments from the new critical Apache HTTP Server vulnerability

Learn how to protect cloud environments from the new critical Apache HTTP Server vulnerability...

How to Protect Your Cloud Environment from Supply Chain Attacks

Learn how to protect your cloud environment from supply chain attacks...

Agents are not enough: Why cloud security needs agentless deep scanning

In this post, we’re going to dive into the role and limitations of security agents in the cloud, and put forth a different approach for cloud infrastructure security: agentless deep scanning...

OMIGOD: Critical Vulnerabilities in OMI Affecting Countless Azure Customers

Wiz Research recently found 4 critical vulnerabilities in OMI, which is one of Azure's most ubiquitous yet least known software agents and is deployed on a large portion of Linux VMs in Azure...

“Secret” Agent Exposes Azure Customers To Unauthorized Code Execution

Wiz Research recently discovered a series of alarming vulnerabilities that highlight the supply chain risk of open source code, particularly for customers of cloud computing services...

Wiz goes (even more) global

The first half of 2021 has been incredible for Wiz. Fueled by an additional $250M in funding $350M total from Sequoia, Index Ventures, Insight, Salesforce, Blackstone, Advent, Greenoaks, and Aglaé Wiz has grown at a blistering pace, going from 25 employees at the start of the year to 120 today...

ChaosDB: How to discover your vulnerable Azure Cosmos DBs and protect them

Wiz Research found an unprecedented critical vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB. The vulnerability gives any Azure user full admin access read, write, delete to another customers Cosmos DB instances without authorization...

ChaosDB: How we hacked thousands of Azure customers’ databases

As part of building a market-leading CNAPP, Wiz Research is constantly looking for new attack surfaces in the cloud. Two weeks ago we discovered an unprecedented breach that affects Azure’s flagship database service, Cosmos DB...

What is a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)?

CNAPP stands for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform. The term was coined by Gartner, who recognized the expanding needs that go into securing applications in the cloud...

Is your organization leaking sensitive Dynamic DNS data? Here’s how to find out

At Black Hat on Wednesday, Wiz researchers disclosed a vulnerability in DNS hosting services that affects millions of corporate endpoints...

Black Hat 2021: How isolated is your AWS cloud environment?

Last November, Wiz Research mapped all the services in AWS that allow access from other accounts to see if any of them might inadvertently expose customers and discovered 3 vulnerabilities in different AWS services that allowed anyone to read or write into the accounts of other AWS customers...

Black Hat 2021: DNS loophole makes nation-state level spying as easy as registering a domain

Wiz CTO Ami Luttwak discusses a new class of vulnerabilities discovered by Wiz Research, which exposed valuable dynamic DNS data from millions of endpoints worldwide...

The 10 must-attend sessions at Black Hat 2021

The 10 must-attend sessions at Black Hat 2021...

Salesforce Ventures, Blackstone, and Aglaé Join Team Wiz!

Last week Wiz closed its Series B, which we had previously announced in March, with an additional $120 million investment from Salesforce Ventures and Blackstone with participation from Aglaé Ventures...

New 451 Research report analyzes Wiz and the cloud security market

The report breaks down the current state of the cloud security market and provides an analysis of Wiz’s product strategy, technology, competitors, and more. It’s essential reading for anyone looking for an objective third-party perspective on Wiz and the rapidly developing cloud security market...

Wiz becomes fastest growing security startup ever with new $1.7B valuation

Wiz becomes fastest growing security startup ever with new $1.7B valuation...

82% of companies unknowingly give 3rd parties access to all their cloud data

Cloud identity permissions are complex. So complex that innocent looking permissions provided to 3rd party vendors can lead to unintended exposure of all of your data...

Recent Linux sudo vulnerability affects a major percent of cloud workloads

With an estimated 90% of cloud workloads running Linux based OS, with sudo being common across distributions, many Linux cloud assets are at risk and may be affected. Versions released as far back as 2011 are affected by this vulnerability...

The SolarWinds Attack

SolarWinds attack explained by Wiz CTO Ami Luttwak...

Wiz comes out of stealth with $100M Series A funding to reinvent cloud security

Today, we’re announcing a milestone in that journey: a $100M Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and Cyberstarts...