Drata vs Wiz comparison

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Drata and Wiz are both solutions in the Compliance Management category. Drata is ranked #6 with an average rating of 6.3, while Wiz is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. Additionally, 90% of Drata users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Wiz users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 24, 2026

Wiz and Drata are two prominent competitors in the cybersecurity and compliance sector. Wiz has a competitive advantage owing to its extensive cloud security features, whereas Drata's focus on compliance management offers a strong alternative.

Features: Wiz enhances cloud security with real-time threat detection, cloud-native security, and expansive visibility over multiple cloud environments. Drata stands out in automating compliance workflows, providing a wide array of integrations for seamless reporting and audit readiness. These products bring unique strengths to their respective focus areas.

Room for Improvement: Wiz could enhance its user interface to be more intuitive for varied users, enhance on-demand scanning abilities, and provide more flexible customization options for security protocols. Drata can improve by expanding its integration capabilities with diverse third-party applications, offering more competitive pricing plans, and enhancing its user-dashboard features for better evidence tracking during audits.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Wiz is known for its rapid deployment across cloud platforms supported by a skilled customer service team. It offers faster initial deployment due to broader compatibility. Drata's deployment is user-friendly, emphasizing quick setup and consistent compliance insights, backed by a support team specialized in compliance issues. Each platform leverages its strengths to optimize the user experience.

Pricing and ROI: Wiz justifies its setup cost with a robust security framework that provides substantial ROI by lowering IT risk and security breaches. Although more expensive, its comprehensive security measures offer excellent value for investment. Drata, offering a more cost-effective setup, delivers strong ROI, especially for businesses where compliance is a critical operational factor, making it a go-to option for compliance-centric organizations.

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Qualys TotalCloud

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Sr Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Risk-based triage has transformed container security and now prioritizes high-impact threats

The best features Qualys TotalCloud offers currently include managing cloud infrastructure and container security while facing major challenges such as alert fatigue. Traditional vulnerability scanners flag hundreds of CVEs on short-lived Kubernetes containers, some of which have no internet exposure or are gone before we can even triage them. I leverage Qualys TotalCloud to move beyond static CVSS. I use it to implement runtime exposure, correlation risk reprioritization, and shift-left integration. This notifies developers to fix a base image upstream rather than patching live ephemeral instances. In my work with cloud and container security, the biggest operational hurdle was alert fatigue. I use Qualys to shift left from static CVSS severity to context-aware risk prioritization. I correlated raw vulnerability data with real-time risk factors such as public network exposure, active runtime execution, or overly permissive IAM roles. This allows us to immediately drop the priority of isolated containers and escalate lower-severity CVEs that sit on an exposed, high-risk path. We can map these findings directly back to our CI/CD pipelines so developers can patch the root base images upstream. We have drastically cut down the signal-to-noise ratio, saved a lot of manual hours doing triage work, and ensured engineering effort goes directly towards high-impact risk reduction.

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Jacqueline Segooa

Cybersecurity Governance Specialist at Suse

Centralized audits and policies have transformed how our team manages compliance workflows

At the moment, integrating Drata with other AIs would be beneficial. I am not too sure if it is something that can be done or if it is possible, but I am not aware. Integrating it with AI where maybe with regards to evidence collection, I would not have to be collecting the evidence manually would be helpful. When you are managing a lot of frameworks, it is a lot of work to actually individually and manually upload all the evidence in Drata. If maybe there is an AI which can be able to automate that kind of a workflow, and obviously as human beings, we will have to do a human error check, I think it would be amazing. I am not too sure if maybe at the moment it is something that is in place and I am not aware of, but I think it would be great.Integrations within my team are managed by someone, but I do have an idea about Drata's automated control monitoring. For example, with tests, there are certain systems such as AWS that has been integrated with Drata, and it tests those systems and puts them as part of evidence. For example, data encryption at rest. We can put it a test and integrate it with AWS, and then it will automatically test the encryption in data at rest. If the test has failed, you will see it. When I log in to check all the controls that have failed, it will show on Drata that the test has failed. Then I will be able to coordinate with the relevant stakeholders and tell them that it needs to be fixed. I would like Drata to make the user interface more intuitive.

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Peter Whelan

CISO at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Improved our security posture thanks to comprehensive visibility

I have contacted Wiz technical support frequently. The support is excellent. We contact via an in-application portal. We can see the support cases we personally open, and also the cases that other people have opened from our company. I appreciate that feature. Generally, support gets back to us within a few days with a good answer. There was one fellow in particular who has been knocking it out of the park. He is a great support person to deal with. We are happy with the support experience. If I were to put Wiz support on a scale from one to ten, I would give them a ten.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"I appreciate Qualys TotalCloud's ability to onboard any type of device with ease, including containers."

"I would definitely recommend Qualys TotalCloud to other customers."

"Qualys TotalCloud has significantly improved our organization by automating our reporting processes, reducing the time spent on report creation from two hours to less than fifteen to twenty minutes."

"The platform's unified view of the organization proves particularly valuable for leadership team meetings."

"In my opinion, this is the best tool."

"If I had to say something positive about the product that brings me the biggest benefit, I would say it has accurate reports, gets new update CVEs, zero-day attack detection, and is easy to manage with its GUI."

"One of the features I appreciate is the ability to generate daily reports without relying on anyone else."

"Once it is set up, Qualys has proved to be one of our greatest assets."

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"My experience with customer support was good; they were responsive, but they didn't ever get us to a solution that worked."

"Drata helped us publish our ISO and SOC reports, which was essential for the acquisition. The challenge now is whether Drata can scale up to meet the needs of a larger company, which already has tools like Intune to enforce laptop encryption. Drata is excellent for startups and small—to medium-sized companies but may face challenges in larger organizations with multiple environments."

"Drata keeps adding new features, allowing us to build our entire InfoSec program within it. Adding new components and evidence for different audits is easy. Drata also integrates with various software, like ticketing systems, source code control, and cloud platforms, continuously pulling evidence from these integrations. Without a GRC tool with these integrations, we used to gather evidence from different software during audits manually. Drata has a significant impact on our security posture management. Previously, Drata had features for security posture management, primarily through integration with AWS. For example, it would scan AWS for specific security requirements, like ensuring all S3 buckets are private. It will be reported on the Drata platform if it finds a public bucket. Recently, Drata introduced a new feature that uses an infrastructure-as-code approach. This feature detects issues and provides AI-generated suggestions for fixing them. If an organization uses infrastructure-as-code solutions like Terraform, Drata will suggest changes to the Terraform code to address the issues. You can then review and apply these changes to fix the problems. This is particularly useful when dealing with many topics, as it helps automate and speed up the process of implementing fixes. However, this AI-generated code feature is part of Drata’s upsell options. The basic version of Drata offers limited capabilities compared to the advanced features available with a paid upgrade. Even without this new feature, Drata's security posture management is valuable, as it scans cloud environments for deviations from defined security baselines. Many tools offer similar capabilities, but Drata’s new feature that translates issues into actionable fixes is a notable advancement. This benefits teams with the capability and resources to use this tool effectively."

"Drata offers APIs for every clause so that it can integrate into various platforms."

"The product is 100 percent friendly to use."

"The way the tool's controls are linked to the framework, specifically with SAST and HIPAA frameworks or any other frameworks, is really good."

"Overall, Drata as a tool has brought a lot of improvements within the GRC team, and having to centralize everything in one system, mapping the controls within one system, performing audits within one system, monitoring policies within one system, and doing risk management within one system is something that in GRC, speaking from a GRC perspective in cybersecurity, has been very impactful and effective within the team."

"Drata helps eliminate evidence gathering and makes assigning different activities to different team members easier, simplifying compliance and audit processes. In Pennsylvania, we're putting in thousands of hours. Drata improves our security posture by reducing extra work, allowing us to focus on other security directives. I like the control editing and task management features the most. It's easy to use, but it's also easy for people to think they don't need security experts if they have it."

"In my opinion, all the security features Wiz Code offers are the best."

"Approximately 30 to 40% of vulnerabilities are being remediated quicker and easily because Wiz Code has an auto-fixing PR feature available for IAC code, which helps us fix issues quickly."

"One feature I particularly appreciate about Wiz is that, similar to other cloud-native security tools like Microsoft's Defender for Cloud, it allows you to define policies as code and deploy them through a version control system with a continuous deployment pipeline."

"Wiz distinguished itself immediately in the PoC, surfacing important issues that were entirely missed by both the products we were already using and other CNAPP's that we tested."

"Wiz is a very mature platform that we use daily as an end-to-end cloud management tool, and it is great as it reduces your company's security risk and actively monitors your entire cloud infrastructure, so you do not need to worry about any cloud risks affecting your organization."

"Wiz can accomplish this and easily provide the total inventory in the cloud, which is crucial when managing large cloud databases or environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google environments, where it's difficult to have one view for all cloud components."

"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."

"Wiz has positively impacted my organization by stopping security incidents, giving us full visibility in our cloud environments, and providing us with the confidence that we can use the tool not just for security but also for operations tooling, DevOps, code scanning, and all of the above."

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Cons

"In terms of improvement, remediation still belongs to the cloud team, which is one of the issues we faced with Qualys TotalCloud."

"Their support could be improved."

"In my opinion, what can be improved in Qualys TotalCloud includes pricing and container scanning."

"Customer support with Qualys TotalCloud needs a little improvement with the response times."

"Qualys TotalCloud's increasing complexity, due to the development and deployment of multiple solutions, is making the GUI difficult to navigate."

"I think Qualys TotalCloud needs to improve its handling of zero-day vulnerabilities and supply chain management because modern ransomware attacks not only target prime critical infrastructures but also the supply chain system."

"One of the things that could be improved is the alerts. Qualys is a fantastic tool, especially with the TruRisk feature, but one challenge that most leaders face involves alert fatigue."

"Qualys TotalCloud needs to improve its accuracy for non-Windows operating systems."

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"There was one instance where our auditors could not access the Audit Hub in Drata, and it was not really something that was wrong from our company side."

"The thing with Drata is you cannot open multiple tabs on the same interface or the same desktop,"

"There is room for improvement in Drata. The core features are solid, but some new features are in a very MVP (Minimum Viable Product) stage. They work, but the user experience isn't always smooth. While the core features are well-developed compared to the market, the new features need more polish. They could benefit from more user feedback and iterations to make them more useful. Some of these new features look promising buthave flaws, so we can’t fully adopt them or justify paying extra for them now. The user interface is clean and intuitive. However, you'll need some specific knowledge if you're a security policy manager or need to set updifferent integrations."

"The readiness state of compliance frameworks can sometimes be misleading."

"The product can improve in its API documentation area."

"One of the challenges with Drata is that if you're paying for a subscription to ISO 27001, you must undergo a risk assessment. You should have access to all necessary modules on the platform to achieve your compliance posture and certification."

"The existing features of Drata are already extensive and costly to integrate."

"Drata has impacted our organization negatively, as it made the whole compliance process more complicated and cost me significant time."

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"One important area for improvement in Wiz could be customization and reporting flexibility."

"One significant area for improvement would be increasing automation. While they excel at identifying issues, we need assistance in minimizing the human hours required for tasks."

"Wiz can be improved with better maturity in code scanning and developer workflows, expanding secret detection to full lifecycle management, stronger IAM across multi-account environments, more transparent attack path scoring and risk modeling, improved AI and ML security scanning, reduced false positives in runtime threat detection, more fine-grained access control and tenant separation, and better integration for serverless workloads."

"There are various ways to improve Wiz, particularly focusing on posture prioritization and enhancing runtime detections while comparing to solutions like CrowdStrike or Defender which have more mature runtime capabilities and can work on stronger behavior-based detections."

"I found the initial setup of Wiz not entirely straightforward; there is a learning curve involved."

"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."

"It would be better if, when you get an alert type, you are able to view the regex or alert logic without having to dig through all the different options; it is difficult to find where the alert logic is because you have to go to the investigations and then actually find and search for the individual alert."

"We are still analyzing its behavior as we are in the midst of the implementation."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Qualys TotalCloud is cost-efficient and was selected for its value compared to other products."

"The pricing for TotalCloud is attractive and competitive in the market. Given the features, especially the dashboard, I have no concerns regarding pricing."

"While Qualys TotalCloud's pricing is currently acceptable, it is becoming increasingly expensive and may soon be considered overpriced."

"Qualys TotalCloud is expensive, but it offers a premier solution with no headaches."

"Although Qualys TotalCloud is relatively expensive due to its unique automation features, its cost-effectiveness is rated an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."

"The cost is high, but it meets our organizational needs."

"TotalCloud's price is about right where I would expect it to be."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility."

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"I remember that my company used to pay 25,000 USD to use the product...The product's cost is really high, but it is a powerful tool."

"It's one of the more expensive options, but I think it's worth the money if you can afford it."

"Drata's pricing is quite reasonable. Compared to other tools in the market, including its biggest competitor, Vanta, Drata is much cheaper. Even compared to other tools like AuditBoard, which aren’t as good, Drata’s price remains competitive."

"Based on the features and capabilities, the product pricing seems reasonable."

"The pricing is fair. Some of the more advanced features and functionalities and how the tiers are split can be somewhat confusing."

"Regarding pricing, it’s more than $100k because we have a very big infrastructure. Our environment supports around three thousand people, and we offer business-to-client financial services to around one million clients, so we rely heavily on Wiz."

"The pricing seems pretty simple. We don't have to do a lot of calculations to figure out what the components are. They do it by enabling specific features, either basics or advanced, which makes it easy to select."

"Wiz is a moderately priced solution, where it is neither cheap nor costly."

"The pricing is fair and comparable to their competitors. The cost seems to be going up, which is a concern. There are potential savings from consolidating tools, but we're uncertain how Wiz's pricing will change over time."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price as a five out of ten."

"The cost of the other solutions is comparable to Wiz."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

18%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Outsourcing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Outsourcing Company

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	35

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Large Enterprise	3

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Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	49

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys TotalCloud?

I was not involved in pricing, setup cost, and licensing, but I can say that the setup was fast, within a quarter, an...

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What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?

In terms of improvements, the features we are using in Qualys TotalCloud are working in the best optimal way, and I d...

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What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?

I have been using Qualys TotalCloud for the last eight months to scan the hardware and the virtual devices in our inf...

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What needs improvement with Drata?

At the moment, integrating Drata with other AIs would be beneficial. I am not too sure if it is something that can be...

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I am an end user of Drata. Most of the time I work with Drata for control mapping, uploading evidence, and sometimes ...

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From my experience with Drata, if maybe for someone who is entry-level or who is not really too technical, they would...

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No involvement occurred with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Wiz since it was a free proof of concept. Approxi...

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While Checkmarx may perform better in some deep code scanning aspects, Wiz is considerably easier to use, has a bette...

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Wiz Code, Wiz Defend

Overview

Qualys TotalCloud enhances security posture across cloud environments with continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and risk visualization, ensuring efficient threat assessment and automated remediation for improved cyber risk reduction.

Qualys TotalCloud offers a robust suite of security tools essential for organizations managing multi-cloud infrastructures. By integrating cloud accounts and automating workflows, it supports AWS, Azure, and GCP, offering comprehensive vulnerability management and zero-day detection. The platform's user-friendly design, combined with its extensive risk management and unified threat assessment capabilities, enables organizations to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities effectively. TruRisk Insights provides clear insights on cyber risks, while the automation options streamline patch management and scanning processes. API integration across IaaS and SaaS environments further enhances resource allocation efficiency and saves time, addressing misconfigurations across cloud environments.

What are the most important features of Qualys TotalCloud?

Accurate Vulnerability Reports: Delivers precise and actionable insights for risk mitigation.
Zero-Day Detection: Identifies and addresses zero-day vulnerabilities proactively.
Unified Threat Assessment: Offers comprehensive evaluation of threats across the environment.
Extensive Risk Management: Manages risks effectively with advanced insights and prioritization.
Continuous Monitoring: Provides non-stop surveillance for vulnerabilities and threats.
Cloud-Native Automation: Streamlines processes and reduces manual efforts using automation.
FlexScan for Internet-Facing VMs: Scans external VMs efficiently to detect vulnerabilities.
Dashboard Risk Visualization: Clear visualization helps prioritize vulnerabilities.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Improved Security Posture: Enhances threat detection and response across clouds.
Time Savings: Automation reduces time spent on manual vulnerability management.
Resource Efficiency: Better allocation of resources through streamlined workflows.
Enhanced Risk Prioritization: Focus on critical vulnerabilities for effective mitigation.
Integrated Cloud Accounts: Facilitates seamless cloud management and security.

Qualys TotalCloud is deployed in sectors needing rigorous vulnerability management, such as finance and healthcare. Companies utilize it to secure multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP, focus on compliance, and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines to detect and remedy threats pre-deployment.

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Drata is a powerful tool for automating compliance processes, effectively reducing audit preparation time and continuously monitoring security controls. It is highly valued for its ability to integrate seamlessly with existing tech stacks and manage security for remote teams, ensuring adherence to standards like SOC 2 and HIPAA. Drata enhances organizational efficiency, improves workflows, and supports real-time compliance monitoring, making compliance management less stressful and more accurate.

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Wiz enhances cloud security with features like CSPM, risk prioritization, and centralized visibility. Users benefit from agentless scanning and integration with CI/CD tools, improving threat detection and compliance management.

Wiz offers a comprehensive security solution for cloud environments by providing functionalities like threat intelligence, detailed risk analysis, and automated compliance mapping. It supports vulnerability management and risk analysis, utilizing agentless deployment for seamless integration across multi-cloud settings. The platform's ability to streamline workflows and reduce false positives enables users to improve remediation speed and bolster security posture. Despite impressive capabilities, there is a need for improvement in reporting, security functionality for Kubernetes, handling false positives, and integration with APIs. Enhanced dashboards and more flexibility in automation processes are also required.

What are the key features of Wiz?

CSPM: Manages cloud security and automates compliance.
Threat Intelligence: Provides insights for proactive defense.
Risk Prioritization: Helps focus on critical security issues.
Agentless Scanning: Offers non-disruptive visibility into cloud environments.
Security Graph: Visual tool for detailed risk analysis.

What benefits should users expect?

Improved Remediation Speed: Enables quicker resolution of vulnerabilities.
Reduced Alert Fatigue: Minimizes false positives, enhancing focus.
Enhanced Security Posture: Strengthens defense across cloud infrastructures.
Streamlined Workflows: Facilitates smoother security and compliance processes.

Industries integrate Wiz for cloud security posture management, ensuring compliance and managing vulnerabilities in multi-cloud environments. Users leverage its agentless capabilities to protect cloud-native applications, integrating with CI/CD pipelines to enhance security operations and automate remediation. This comprehensive approach offers robust cloud security solutions.

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