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.
"Cloud Native Security is user-friendly. Everything in the Cloud Native Security tool is straightforward, including detections, integration, reporting, etc. They are constantly improving their UI by adding plugins and other features."
"We like the platform and its response time. We also like that its console is user-friendly as well as modern and sleek."
"The multi-cloud support is valuable. They are expanding to different clouds. It is not restricted to only AWS. It allows us to have different clouds on one platform."
"The ease of use of the platform is very nice."
"We noted immediate benefits from using the solution."
"The cloud misconfiguration is the most valuable feature."
"Cloud Native Security helps us discover vulnerabilities in a cloud environment like open ports that allow people to attack our environment. If someone unintentionally opens a port, we are exposed. Cloud Native Security alerts us so we can remediate the problem. We can also automate it so that Cloud Native Security will fix it."
"The management console is highly intuitive to comprehend and operate."
"The solution will detect abnormalities in the AWS workload and alert us so that we can monitor and take action."
"The way it monitors accounts is definitely a very important feature."
"We use the tool for threat detection. AWS includes AI features as well. AWS GuardDuty gives us reports."
"The most valuable features are the single system for data collection and the alert mechanisms."
"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."
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"The correlation back end is the solution's most valuable feature."
"One of the advantages of cloud services is the ability to use them on demand. There's minimal installation involved; you can check the latest offerings and make new deployments while dismantling the previous ones. This approach keeps you ahead of potential services, showcasing the agility of AWS."
"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."
"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 CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"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."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"I want PingSafe to integrate additional third-party resources. For example, PingSafe is compatible with Azure and AWS, but Azure AD isn't integrated with AWS. If PingSafe had that ability, it would enrich the data because how users interact with our AWS environment is crucial. All the identity-related features require improvement."
"here is a bit of a learning curve. However, you only need two to three days to identify options and get accustomed."
"They could generally give us better comprehensive rules."
"Customized queries should be made easier to improve PingSafe."
"PingSafe's current documentation could be improved to better assist customers during the cluster onboarding process."
"One of the issues with the product stems from the fact that it clubs different resources under one ticket."
"I export CSV. I cannot export graphs. Restricting it to the CSV format has its own disadvantages. These are all machine IP addresses and information. I cannot change it to the JSON format. The export functionality can be improved."
"The could improve their mean time to detect."
"AWS GuardDuty needs to be more customer-oriented."
"The product needs to improve its cost-efficiency since it is expensive."
"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."
"For me, I would say just the presentation of findings, like the dashboards and other stuff, could be improved a bit."
"It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities."
"For the next release, they could provide IPS features as well."
"An improvement would be to have a mobile version where remote workers can log in and monitor and fix issues."
"Improvement-wise, Amazon GuardDuty should have an overall dashboard analytics function so we could see what's in the current environment, and then in addition to that, provide best practices and recommendations, particularly to provide some type of observability, and then figure out the login side of it, based on our current environment, in terms of what we're not monitoring and what we should monitor. The solution should also give us a sample code configuration to implement that added feature or feature request. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon GuardDuty are more security analytics, reporting, and monitoring. They should provide recommendations and additional options that answer questions such as "Hey, what can we see in our environment?", "What should we implement within the environment?", What's recommended?" We know that cost will always be associated with that, but Amazon GuardDuty should show us the increased costs or decreased costs if we implement it or don't implement it, and that would be a good feature request, particularly with all products within AWS, just for cloud products in general because there are times features are implemented, but once they're deployed, they don't tell you about costs that would be generated along with those features. After features are deployed, there should a summary of the costs that would be generated, and projected based on current usage, so they would give us the option to figure out how long we're going to use those features and the option to keep those on or turn those off. If more services were like that, a lot more people would use those on the cloud."
"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."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"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 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 solution's container security 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."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
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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 Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, 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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