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.
"Currently, our organization utilizes AWS for various purposes, including SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and hosting applications in the cloud. We develop our applications and use AWS services as a platform for basic functions and secondary development needs. Additionally, we rely on PaaS for accounting services. Approximately, 50% of our applications are hosted in the cloud environment, making it a significant part of our current setup."
"Very good at detection and providing real-time alerts."
"Cloudposse is a valuable feature as it guarantees my security."
"The solution shows us our compliance score."
"The best feature of AWS Security Hub is that you can get compliance or your cloud's current security posture."
"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."
"I like that AWS Security Hub currently has several good features, around four or five. The technical support for AWS Security Hub is also responsive."
"I find all of the features to be highly valuable."
"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."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"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."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"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."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"Whenever my team gets some alarms from the central team, my team needs to initiate whether it's a real or false trigger. The central team needs to keep adjusting to the parameters or at least the concerned IPs, whether it's really from the company's pool of IPs, so the trigger process can be improved. In the next release of AWS Security Hub, I'd like a better dashboard that could result in better alert visibility."
"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."
"We need more granular-level customizations to enable or disable the rules in AWS Security Hub."
"The support must be quicker."
"Although AWS Security Hub does a periodic scan of your overall infrastructure, it doesn't do it in real time."
"AWS Security Hub's configuration and integration are areas where it lacks and needs to improve."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"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."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
AWS Security Hub is ranked 14th 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, Splunk Enterprise Security and Google Chronicle Suite, 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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