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 7.7, while Wiz is ranked #2 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 Jan 2, 2025

Wiz and Drata compete in the cybersecurity and compliance automation industry. Drata often holds the upper hand due to its advanced feature set and integration capabilities, appealing to users prioritizing comprehensive functionality, while Wiz attracts cost-conscious buyers with its affordability and strong support structure.

Features: Wiz focuses on security monitoring, vulnerability management, and robust threat detection, offering valuable visibility across cloud environments. Drata emphasizes automating compliance across various frameworks, usability, and seamless integration, making it ideal for compliance-centric setups.

Room for Improvement: Wiz could enhance its on-demand scan performance and clarify scanner functionalities. Additionally, more integration options could strengthen its offering. Drata could improve its initial configuration process and make its advanced features more accessible without extensive upsell packages. Simplifying the setup of its new AI-generated code suggestions would be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Wiz offers straightforward deployment with minimal disruption and responsive support. Drata also provides efficient installation and solid customer service but may require more initial configuration effort. Wiz's advantage lies in its rapid and uncomplicated integration, while Drata focuses on establishing a thorough compliance infrastructure.

Pricing and ROI: Wiz stands out for its affordability, providing a high ROI through low initial costs and effective security management. Drata, while higher-priced, offers potential long-term savings via comprehensive automation of compliance tasks. Wiz appeals to those seeking immediate cost savings, whereas Drata's robust feature set justifies its higher cost for users prioritizing functionality.

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Qualys TotalCloud

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Robert Orłowski

IT Security Expert at Alior Bank S.A.

Unified risk scoring has improved our cloud visibility and simplifies remediation priorities

Qualys TotalCloud provides unified vulnerability and threat assessment across both IAS and SaaS. This solution provides a single prioritized view of risk, which helps reduce the work I would have to do. We are no longer based on CVSS; we are based on Qualys risk scoring, which is based on CVSS plus internal findings made by Qualys, and then assigns its own score. The TruRisk insight feature has found a small number of assets with high vulnerability scores, though I am cautious since some information is classified. Qualys TotalCloud has positively impacted our bank's performance, and we have definitely seen benefits after implementing this solution.

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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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is extensibility."

"I would recommend Qualys TotalCloud to other users because it is cost-efficient and has a good return on investment."

"Its excellent graphical interface makes the scanning process simple."

"The best features in Qualys TotalCloud include the total asset management of the cloud environment. It is very easy to export the report and see the vulnerabilities related to the cloud specifically."

"TotalCloud has been excellent in providing us with immediate access to all the products and features we need, such as CSPM, TruRisk Insights, and compliance reports, including CIS and HIPAA."

"I found the initial setup user-friendly."

"The best part I like is the on-demand scans."

"Qualys TotalCloud provides unified vulnerability and threat assessment for IaaS and SaaS and a single prioritized view of risk, which helps reduce my workload by not having to combine multiple sources."

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"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The product is 100 percent friendly to use."

"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."

"Wiz helps to identify active threats more effectively as it does active scanning on workloads, keeps looking into logs and images of virtual machines, and upon detecting threats, it checks possible connections through events and logs, giving visibility into where the issue started and exactly where it is."

"Wiz significantly helped with our compliance requirements."

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

"If anyone wants to secure their infrastructure, cloud environment, or Kubernetes cluster, I would strongly recommend Wiz as a tool because it is easy to use and user-friendly."

"Wiz has positively impacted my organization by implementing zero trust authorization, providing good reporting that shows the top attack path, critical assets, overall risk posture, and demonstrating AI and ML workload capabilities towards my team, as well as good infrastructure detection and vulnerability detection accuracy with security posture management at massive scale and identity exposure."

"Wiz gives a very good insight into how secure your software and code are and is quite good at consolidating the scanning results."

"Wiz has improved the overall security posture of our previous organization, National Australia Bank, by providing wide-cross visibility in terms of risk identification, alert creation, misconfiguration identification, vulnerability remediations, patching of security holes, and exposing details."

"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."

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Cons

"The cost of Qualys TotalCloud is high and could be more competitive."

"There is a lack of data segregation according to criticality or inventory."

"The cloud licensing unit system is unclear, especially since "units" aren't well-defined."

"Qualys TotalCloud needs to enhance its scanning capabilities in the IP domain, as it currently lacks the functionality to resolve IPs to their corresponding domain names."

"The price is very expensive, actually."

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

"Overall, we are satisfied with it. However, the response part of the Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) module can be improved. It is not yet in place according to requirements; it is not completely available even though the module has been released."

"The vulnerability part is good, but the policy compliance module needs improvement because it involves a lot of manual work. Specifically, the remediation part of the controls requires enhancements."

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

"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 product can improve in its API documentation area."

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

"In terms of improvements, I'd suggest better marketing since the industry tends to market these tools as security experts, which isn't true."

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

"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."

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"In Brazil, the cost is a significant issue due to the currency exchange rate."

"As the tool is a good fit for small and medium-sized businesses, the solution should focus on making the product suitable for large-scale businesses."

"Two percent would be that the loading time is taking a bit longer while loading the graph, and while navigating to other links, that is also taking some time."

"The pricing is a bit higher than the market rate, but the value it provides is more valuable than the pricing."

"Wiz does encounter some glitches similar to other tools in the market; I remember facing certain challenges, such as problems scanning encrypted disks or discrepancies in the findings from already remediated vulnerabilities not reflecting accurately in the tool."

"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."

"From a technical perspective, Wiz is excellent, but the pricing is too expensive."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is comparable. It is built into our other product, so I cannot piecemeal it. It is a part of our subscription."

"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."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility."

"It isn't cheap, but it's reasonable. It helps us to manage things with very few resources."

"I am not sure about the pricing. From what I understand, it is a bit on the higher side, but I do not have the exact numbers."

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

"Qualys TotalCloud offers good pricing that is affordable and competitive with the market. Our partnership also provides us with additional benefits."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers competitive pricing given its comprehensive suite of features, including integration, assessment, remediation, and detection capabilities, all within a single platform."

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"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

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Midsize Enterprise

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Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	32

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Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	32

Questions from the Community

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

The price is very expensive, actually.

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What needs improvement with Qualys TotalCloud?

To be totally honest, I do not have any best features because I have had a bad experience using this tool, especially...

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What is your primary use case for Qualys TotalCloud?

My main use case for Qualys TotalCloud is vulnerability management and exposure management. I use this tool to evalua...

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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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What is your primary use case for Drata?

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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What advice do you have for others considering Drata?

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Wiz?

The pricing is a bit higher than the market rate, but the value it provides is more valuable than the pricing. Setup ...

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What needs improvement with Wiz?

I believe a little more documentation could help users follow step by step. That is the extent of the improvements ne...

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What is your primary use case for Wiz?

I have been using Wiz for approximately three to four weeks, and I find that Wiz is an amazing cloud security platfor...

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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 is the industry’s first AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP), empowering organizations to securely protect everything they build and run at machine speed. Moving beyond traditional cloud security management, Wiz unifies Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP), and Attack Surface Management (ASM) into a single, cohesive platform. It provides 100% agentless visibility across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, and more) and Kubernetes, instantly discovering everything from traditional virtual machines to dynamic AI agents, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Model Context Protocols (MCPs). To help organizations stay resilient in the AI threat landscape, Wiz features an agentic security operating model with specialized AI Agents (Red, Blue, and Green) that autonomously investigate threats, validate exploitability, and remediate risks paired with Wiz Workflows to automate and customize response as fast as risk is discovered, directly in the tools teams work in. Users adopt Wiz to eliminate toxic combinations of risk, secure AI pipelines, automate compliance, and achieve zero critical vulnerabilities.

What are the key features of Wiz?

AI-Enriched Security Graph: Models relationships across code, cloud infrastructure, identities, data, and AI components to pinpoint "toxic combinations" of risk and actual attack paths.
Wiz AI Agents & Workflows: Features the Red Agent (an autonomous AI pentester that validates complex, exploitable risks), Blue Agent (an automated threat investigator for runtime alerts), and Green Agent (a resolution engine that identifies the safest, fastest remediation paths back to the root cause in code). Wiz Workflows orchestrates these agents and the remediation lifecycle across the platform, fully customizable to each organization’s processes and integrated with the tools teams already use. Consolidated Cloud & AI Posture Management: Unifies CSPM with AI-SPM (AI Security Posture Management) and DSPM, securing everything from traditional cloud assets to AI models and sensitive training data with a single scanning engine.
Advanced Agentless Deployment: Deploys in minutes via API to provide complete full-stack visibility without disrupting business operations, expanding to instantly discover hidden AI tools, shadow APIs, and "vibe-coded" applications.
Wiz Code & Wiz Defend: Extends protection from code to runtime, offering context-aware AI-SAST (in preview) for deep code analysis, zero-config code-to-cloud mapping, and real-time threat detection across cloud workloads and Kubernetes.

What benefits should users expect?

Machine-Speed Defense: Goes beyond "time efficiency" by using AI to autonomously triage alerts, automatically trace risks to the exact code owner, and provide 1-click in-code fixes, keeping pace with rapid AI-driven development.
Definitive Exploitability & Enhanced Security: Instead of overwhelming teams with noisy, theoretical alerts, Wiz safely simulates multi-step attacks from the outside in to definitively validate which vulnerabilities actually represent critical business risk and blast radius.
Automated Compliance & Governance: Streamlines compliance processes across over 100 built-in frameworks, mapping regulatory requirements directly to cloud and data security postures.
Democratized Security & Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by allowing organizations to retire siloed legacy tools. With role-based access and over 240 integrations, Wiz delivers prescriptive remediation guidance directly to developers in the tools they already work in - giving them the context to independently fix issues before they’re ever committed. Companies in industries with complex architectures, such as finance, healthcare, and retail, leverage Wiz for its comprehensive multi-cloud and Kubernetes support to manage risks and compliance efficiently. Furthermore, as organizations of all sizes rapidly adopt Generative AI, they rely on Wiz to securely implement AI agents, protect sensitive customer data from exposure, and enforce preventative security guardrails directly within the AI software development lifecycle.

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