CrowdStrike vs. Wiz
Don’t settle for an incomplete CNAPP that can’t stop breaches.
Why customers choose CrowdStrike vs. Wiz
Incomplete platform leaves security gaps
Wiz’s incomplete CNAPP lacks key cloud security features such as visibility into application workloads, microservices, and APIs. As a cloud security point product, they completely lack native endpoint or identity security, leaving customers blind to modern adversaries that cross multiple threat surfaces during attacks.
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CrowdStrike difference
Industry’s most complete (CNAPP) with unified visibility across your cloud and apps. It integrates CWP, CSPM, CIEM, CDR, and ASPM into a single unified platform with one agent and one console. Furthermore, CrowdStrike customers consolidate point products across Endpoint Security, Identity Protection,, Exposure Management, Next-Gen SIEM and more, all delivered through a unified platform, single agent and console.
Wiz can't stop breaches
With visibility-only capabilities, Wiz focuses exclusively on detecting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, not stopping in-progress attacks. Wiz released a runtime sensor in 2023 that only supports Kubernetes containers with no protection capabilities, so users are left to stop adversaries themselves.
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CrowdStrike difference
CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security stops breaches with unified agent and agentless protection, from endpoint to cloud. With runtime protection built on the same unified agent as our pioneering EDR, we have over 10+ years of sensor engineering DNA that allows us to be a trusted security partner in the most sensitive of environments.
Lacks expert services and threat intel, leaving customers stranded
Wiz has no integrated threat intelligence, and completely lacks the ability to automatically contextualize alerts with adversary tactic discovery or threat actor attribution, slowing down SOC analyst productivity and lengthening response times. Wiz also lacks in-house managed services, failing to close the skills gaps for customers.
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CrowdStrike difference
CrowdStrike's combination of our industry-leading CNAPP, world-class adversary intelligence, and elite 24/7 expertise helps organizations keep their cloud systems and data secure, as our services range from advisory, to implementation, to a fully-managed cloud detection and response (CDR) solution that set us apart from any other CNAPP solution.
Compare CrowdStrike to Wiz
Wiz
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
The industry’s most complete CNAPP
The industry’s only CNAPP that natively integrates cloud workload protection CWP, CSPM, CIEM, and ASPM in a single, unified platform.
Wiz
Incomplete CNAPP exposes cloud security gaps
Wiz’s incomplete CNAPP lacks key cloud security features such as visibility into application workloads, microservices, and APIs.
Runtime Protection
Comprehensive runtime protection
The Falcon Cloud Security agent delivers deep visibility and security across the entire cloud-native stack, including all workloads, containers, and Kubernetes applications. The sensor detects and prevents zero-day threats in K8s and production workloads and provides visibility into running applications, active processes, and system and network calls.
Wiz
Immature, visibility-only agent
Wiz’s runtime protection capabilities are “detect-only”, leaving customers unable to stop initial intrusion or ongoing attacks. Their agent has been GA for less than a year, is visibility-only, and only supports Kubernetes containers.
Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
The new standard in cloud detection and response
CrowdStrike offers unrivaled protection, unifying the world’s most complete CNAPP with pioneering adversary intelligence and elite 24/7 services to rapidly stop cloud breaches.
Prepare security operations teams with red team / blue team exercises and proactive compromise assessments. Rapidly recover from cloud breaches to contain active threats and prevent future attacks with incident response services.
Wiz
Inadequate services raise the risk of failed or ineffective deployments
Wiz has no professional or managed services offerings, leaving customers with potential skill gaps for implementation, threat hunting, incident investigation and response. Customers who want managed services will need to bring on another 3rd party-provider, adding additional cost.
Threat intelligence
World-class threat intelligence
CrowdStrike was named a leader in External Threat Intelligence Services, with the highest ranking of all vendors in the Current Offering category, arming defenders with full context to proactively defeat adversaries, including insight from threat hunting and incident response experts.
Wiz
Limited intelligence means ineffective response
Wiz has no integrated threat intelligence, leaving SOC teams blind to valuable alert context that is needed for effective threat investigation. With no threat actor profiles, adversary tactic discovery or documented IOCs, customers are ill-equipped to defend against today’s sophisticated adversaries.
Analyst Validation
Market leader, validated by the industry
CrowdStrike is a Leader in:
Wiz
Not a "Leader"
Wiz was only a “Strong Performer” in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2024. They were excluded entirely from the Forrester Waves for Threat Intel and MDR because they don’t offer these solutions, exposing significant gaps in their offerings.
Consolidation
The world’s leading AI-native platform
CrowdStrike saves money and reduces complexity for customers with a single unified console purpose built for consolidation with native solutions across cloud, endpoint, identity, exposure management, next-gen SIEM, data protection and IT automation.
Wiz
Point products add complexity and cost
Wiz is a standalone point product. It does not have endpoint protection, identity security, or visibility over IT assets, forcing customers to manually correlate telemetry across multiple vendors and consoles, resulting in worse security outcomes and increased complexity.
Leadership validated by industry analysts
More than 23,000 customers trust CrowdStrike to protect what matters most
CoreWeave
“CrowdStrike gives us high confidence in our security with zero impact to performance … the value is priceless,”
Matt Bellingeri, CISO
CoreWeave
Commercial Bank of California
"With CrowdStrike, we can remediate any cloud intrusion in less than 16 minutes, which puts our minds at ease, while ensuring a great user experience for our clients."
Kevin Tsuei, SVP Information Security Officer
Commercial Bank of California
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