We performed a comparison between GuardDuty and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Reviewers praised AWS GuardDuty for its efficient data collection and threat response. Wiz excels at identifying and resolving misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. Users say AWS GuardDuty would benefit from adding a mobile version for remote workers and improving dashboard analytics. Wiz should focus on speeding up remediation and requires more advanced reporting capabilities and logging integration.
Service and Support: Customers have praised Amazon's quick and responsive technical support. Wiz's customer service is also highly regarded. Reviewers say Wiz account representatives are accessible and post-sales support is strong. However, some said Wiz could improve by making information more publicly accessible.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AWS GuardDuty is simple and efficient, with quick deployment. In contrast, Wiz's setup is straightforward and speedy, requiring only a short amount of time. Additionally, Wiz provides connectivity to multiple cloud environments and does not require ongoing maintenance.
Pricing: AWS GuardDuty offers a setup cost that is calculated based on the amount of data processed, without any extra charges besides the standard licensing. Some reviewers said that Wiz's pricing is costly compared to other options and expressed concerns about potential changes. Users have also mentioned that Wiz could improve in terms of pricing transparency.
ROI: AWS GuardDuty yielded an ROI by enhancing security posture, fostering trust, and generating business prospects. Wiz offers instant advantages such as enhanced asset management, vulnerability detection, centralized investigations, and real-time analysis. It streamlines procedures, enhances compliance, and provides extensive coverage with limited resources.
Comparison Results: Our reviewers prefer GuardDuty over Wiz. Users appreciate GuardDuty's ability to collect data and send alerts, which allows them to monitor their AWS accounts without incurring extra expenses. GuardDuty also offers threat response and remediation capabilities, timely notifications, and the ability to analyze logs from various sources.
"The ease of use of the platform is very nice."
"The management console is the most valuable feature."
"PingSafe's graph explorer is a valuable tool that lets us visualize all connected services."
"We use the infrastructure as code scanning, which is good."
"PingSafe's most valuable feature is its unified console."
"The visibility is the best part of the solution."
"Support has been very helpful and provides regular feedback and help whenever needed. They've been very useful."
"We liked the search bar in PingSafe. It is a global search. We were able to get some insights from there."
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"The way it monitors accounts is definitely a very important feature."
"The correlation back end is the solution's most valuable feature."
"AWS GuardDuty helps by providing continuous threat detection and signaling potential threats. Its most valuable feature is continuous monitoring. The tool's integration with other AWS services has improved security. It provides continuous monitoring and intelligent threat detection, quickly signaling any issues. I would rate this improvement a seven out of ten."
"It kinda just gives us another layer of security. So it does provide some sort of comfort that we do have something that is monitoring for abnormal behavior."
"The out-of-band malware detection from the EBS volumes. It's really cool. No agents or anything needed, it automatically finds and correlates based on malware."
"With anomaly detection, active threat monitoring, and set correlation, GuardDuty alerts me to any unusual user behavior or traffic patterns right away, which is great for staying on top of potential security risks."
"It helps us detect brute-force attacks based on machine learning."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"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 solution is very user-friendly."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"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 security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"We use PingSafe and also SentinelOne. If PingSafe integrated some of the endpoint security features of SentinelOne, it would be the perfect one-stop solution for everything. We wouldn't need to switch between the products. At my organization, I am responsible for endpoint security and vulnerability management. Integrating both functions into one application would be ideal because I could see all the alerts, heat maps, and reports in one console."
"They need more experienced support personnel."
"After closing an alert in Cloud Native Security, it still shows as unresolved."
"There is a bit of a learning curve for new users."
"In some cases, the rules are strictly enforced but do not align with real-world use cases."
"If I had to pick a complaint, it would be the way the hosts are listed in the tool. You have different columns separated by endpoint name, Cloud Account, and Cloud Instances ID. I wish there was something where we could change the endpoint name and not use just the IP address. We would like to have custom names or our own names for the instances. If I had a complaint, that would be it, but so far, it meets all the needs that we have."
"The recommended actions aren't always specific, so it might suggest recommendations that don't apply to the particular infrastructure code I'm reviewing."
"In terms of ease of use, initially, it is a bit confusing to navigate around, but once you get used to it, it becomes easier."
"It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities."
"It is evolving, and at the moment, I will just need it on a larger scale. Then, it will satisfy my demand, initially."
"Some of the pain points in Amazon GuardDuty was the cost. When compared to some of the other services, depending on how many we had to monitor, if we had a huge range of accounts, as our accounts increased, we had a cost factor that came into play. Sometimes there were issues, for example, with findings that came up, we wanted to add notes and there were issues back then where notes couldn't be entered properly. If we wanted to leave a note such as "Okay, we have assessed this and this is how we feel", or "This is a false positive", Amazon GuardDuty wasn't allowing us to do that. Even with the suppression of certain findings, there was some issue that we had faced at one time. Those were some of the pain points of the solution."
"While sending the alerts to the email, they are not being patched. we have to do the patching and mapping manually. If GuardDuty could include a feature to do this automatically, it will make our job easier. That is something I believe can be improved."
"The product needs to improve its cost-efficiency since it is expensive."
"For me, I would say just the presentation of findings, like the dashboards and other stuff, could be improved a bit."
"Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data."
"The solution has to be integrated with new services that AWS adds like QuickSight, Managed Airflow, AppFlow and MWAA."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"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."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"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 only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"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."
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AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 20 reviews while Wiz is ranked 2nd in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 12 reviews. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.2, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of AWS GuardDuty writes "A stellar threat-detection service that has helped bolster security against malicious threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Qualys VMDR. See our AWS GuardDuty vs. Wiz report.
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