We performed a comparison between AWS Security Hub and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AWS Security Hub excels in integration and real-time alerts, particularly regarding potential compliance issues with CIS standards. Wiz, on the other hand, is valued for its ability to provide context and prioritize risks, as well as offering automation roles and easy-to-read dashboards. It also has a unique Security Graph feature for customizable reports. AWS Security Hub needs more integration options and multi-cloud compatibility, while Wiz requires preventive controls, refined reporting, and customizable dashboards. Additionally, Wiz needs to expand into File Integrity Monitoring and improve remediation workflow, while AWS Security Hub has concerns with updating and integrating with other security tools.
Service and Support: AWS Security Hub's technical support is efficient and effective, while Wiz's customer service is exceptional with knowledgeable representatives who are enthusiastic about their product. Users consistently rate Wiz's customer support as excellent.
Ease of Deployment: AWS Security Hub's setup is easy but policy configuration is required. On the other hand, Wiz's setup is straightforward and seamless across multiple public clouds. Wiz's platform provides immediate value and requires minimal maintenance. However, some customization may be necessary based on the integration environment.
Pricing: AWS Security Hub's cost is deemed reasonable and satisfactory, though it may not be clear to non-central team members. Wiz's pricing is generally fair and simple, but some concerns exist about possible price increases and lack of transparency. Despite being on the higher end of the market, Wiz's cost is comparable to its competitors.
ROI: Both AWS Security Hub and Wiz are deemed to be effective in providing users with positive ROI. However, Wiz is highlighted for its superior asset management, vulnerability identification, and decentralized investigations.
Comparison Results: AWS Security Hub is favored for its strong integration capabilities with AWS and third-party tools, real-time alerts, and comprehensive compliance alerts. Wiz excels at providing risk context, agentless scanning, and easy-to-read dashboards, but needs preventive controls and improved reporting.
"AWS Security Hub has very good integration features. It allows for AWS native services integration, and it helps us to integrate some of the services outside of AWS. They have partners, such as Amazon Preferred Network Partners (APN). If you have different security tools around APN, we can integrate those findings with AWS Security Hub reducing the need to refer to different portals or different UIs. You can have AWS Security Hub act as a single common go-to dashboard."
"It's a security posture management tool from AWS. Basically, it identifies misconfigurations, similar to Trusted Advisor but on a larger scale."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Security Hub is the ability to track when monitoring is not enabled on any of my resources."
"I find all of the features to be highly valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to manage...It is a scalable solution."
"Very good at detection and providing real-time alerts."
"The platform has valuable features for security."
"Cloudposse is a valuable feature as it guarantees my security."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution lacks self-sufficiency."
"AWS Security Hub should improve the time it takes to update. It takes a long period of time when updating. It can take 24 hours sometimes to update. Additionally, when integrating this solution with more security tools, takes time."
"Security needs to be measured based on their own criteria. We can't add custom criteria specific to our organization. For example, having an S3 bucket publicly available might be flagged as a critical alert, but it might not be critical in a sandbox environment. So, it gets flagged as critical, which becomes a false positive. So, customization options and creating custom dashboards would be areas for improvement."
"The telemetry doesn't always go into the control center. When you have multiple instances running in AWS, you need a control tower to take feeds from Security Hub and analyze your results. Sometimes exemptions aren't passed between the control tower and Security Hub. The configuration gets mixed up or you don't get the desired results."
"From an improvement perspective, there is a need to add more compliance since, right now, AWS Security Hub only provides four to five compliances to control the tool."
"The user interface, graphs, and dashboards of the solution could improve in the future. They are not very sophisticated and could use an update."
"The solution will only give you insight if you have configure rule enabled. It should work more like Prisma Cloud and Dome9 which have a better approach."
"One aspect that could be improved in the solution is its adaptability to different markets and geopolitical restrictions. In certain regions like Thailand, specific services from certain countries or providers, such as AWS or Azure, might be limited or blocked. It also needs improvement in would require configuring the solution more adaptable to AWS infrastructure and function."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
AWS Security Hub is ranked 13th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 16 reviews while Wiz is ranked 2nd in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 11 reviews. AWS Security Hub is rated 7.6, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of AWS Security Hub writes "A centralized dashboard that enables efficient monitoring and management of possible security issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". AWS Security Hub is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Google Chronicle Suite and Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Lacework and Aqua Cloud Security Platform. See our AWS Security Hub vs. Wiz report.
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