Wizlympics: The First Cloud Security Olympic Games
Welcome to Wizlympics, the first Cloud Security Olympic Games where cloud enthusiasts and security experts can showcase their skills by distinguishing between real and fake…
Category: CloudSecurity
How Developers Prevent Production Risk at the Source
A developer pulls node:20-slim as a base image. It’s a sensible default and what most documentation reaches for. It also ships with 14 known CVEs,…
Agentic security: Detection and response at machine speed
After talking with enterprise security leaders over the past year, one thing has become clear: the rise of autonomous AI agents is the most significant…
Wiz Threat Research Team Spots New AWS Phishing Campaign
Earlier this week, one of our employees received a phishing email to their personal inbox that attempted to lure them into providing their AWS login…
Wiz is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
Wiz has been authorized by the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE®) Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). This milestone is thrilling and humbling. Not…
Wiz achieves FedRAMP Moderate authorization
Today, we are proud to announce that Wiz for Government has achieved FedRAMP® Moderate authorization just four years since the company was founded. This achievement,…
Best practices for cloud security migrations
Security teams often get involved with a type of larger scale migration project where there isn’t a clear CVE; here is some advice, given that…
Defeating Kubernetes Privilege Escalation: A Cloud Detection & Response Case Study
Attackers are constantly searching for new ways to target cloud environments and escalate initial access into full administrative privileges. In recent months, our research team…
AWS Console Session Traceability: How Attackers Obfuscate Identity Through the AWS Console
For any security operations team, a key question whenever a new alert pops up is inevitably the same: Who did it? Exposing which entities were…
Frost & Sullivan Radar Report Recognizes Wiz as CSPM Leader
In the latest Frost Radar for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), 2024 analyst researcher Anh Tien Vu highlights how CSPM solutions are critical to securing…
How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Memory costs are increasing dramatically. Both RAM and hard disk drive prices have exploded over the past year. At Cloudflare, we run several massively distributed…
Introducing Continuous Vulnerability Assessment (CVA)
We are excited to introduce Wiz’s Continuous Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) – a fundamentally new operating model for vulnerability scanning that helps teams keep up in…