We performed a comparison between Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation provides useful features like monitoring, automated policy writing, and visibility into application communication and network protocols. Wiz offers risk prioritization, user-friendly dashboards, and agentless scanning of cloud environments. Illumio needs to expand OS support and effectiveness in on-prem environments. Wiz could improve its reporting capabilities, remediation speed, and visibility into Kubernetes containers.
Service and Support: Some reviewers praised the Illumio team's quick response and availability, but reported receiving unhelpful replies and delayed responses. Reviewers had generally positive experiences with Wiz's customer service. They appreciated the excellent support, accessibility, and strong post-sales assistance.
Ease of Deployment: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation had a lengthy and complex setup process that lasted about six months. On the other hand, setting up Wiz was quick and simple, taking only one to two hours. Illumio required testing and deployment, and Wiz involves additional work when users have multiple cloud environments.
Pricing: Users have found Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation to be expensive overall, although the specific setup cost is not mentioned. In contrast, Wiz is praised for its simple pricing model, but there are concerns regarding potential changes and its long-term viability.
ROI: Reviewers provided no information about Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation's ROI. Wiz users said that the solution demonstrates immediate benefits and a substantial ROI.
Comparison Results: Illumio is preferred over Wiz. It offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities, enabling users to track web traffic and block bad actors. Illumio also provides better visibility into application communication and network protocols. Reviewers praised Illumio's 24/7 assistance, and the solution's visibility into Kubernetes containers gives it a leg up on Wiz.
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"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 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."
"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."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"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."
"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."
"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'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 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 remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
Illumio is ranked 14th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 8 reviews while Wiz is ranked 3rd in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 11 reviews. Illumio is rated 8.0, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Lacework. See our Illumio vs. Wiz report.
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