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Vulcan Cyber vs Wiz comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

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Sentiment score
5.5
Wiz support is highly rated for responsiveness, knowledgeable staff, and effective communication, despite initial contact and resolution time challenges.
We can always reach our account representative when we have a problem or need to speak with technical staff to clarify things.
It is some of the best post-sales support ever received.
They recently changed to Zendesk, which has been so much better.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
4.8
Wiz needs enhanced remediation, logging, executive reporting, customizable dashboards, integration, cost efficiency, and improved network visibility.
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.
Wiz is the first vendor I've worked with that has turnaround feature requests in less than a month.
We are trying to figure out how to increase the frequency of the scans, as some universities do not wait a day before they know if something is exposed.
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
8.3
Wiz is praised for its scalable SaaS capabilities, adapting automatically to various demands, with minor cost management challenges.
This solution is very scalable; if I add resources to new accounts, they are automatically monitored.
We have deployed Wiz in three organizations on AWS, each with approximately 70 to 80 accounts, totaling more than 120 accounts.
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
 

Setup Cost

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Wiz's pricing evolves with feature-based tiers, offering value in security but raises concerns about cost and transparency.
Early adopters got an excellent deal, but it became pricey when they became the market leader.
There is room for improvement on our pricing models, so it would be nice if Wiz could share the price beforehand rather than onboarding and then having pricing based on utilization.
We got results with Wiz immediately; we installed it and met our goal during the four-week trial.
 

Stability Issues

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Sentiment score
6.5
Wiz is mostly stable, with resolved issues and high user satisfaction, despite minor login and alert discrepancies during implementation.
We have not encountered any issues with Wiz since I have been here, and it remained stable with no downtime or changes required.
We've only had downtime from maintenance and updates, and they notify us in advance, so we aren't impacted.
Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight to nine out of ten.
 

Valuable Features

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8.7
Wiz offers risk prioritization, contextual visibility, and agentless scanning to enhance vulnerability management, efficiency, and remediation strategies.
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.
It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents.
Leveraging this technology saves us not only precious engineering time but also money developing and investing in other overlapping solutions.
 

Categories and Ranking

Vulcan Cyber
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
31st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (20th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (12th), Cloud Security Remediation (1st)
Wiz
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (2nd), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (1st), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (2nd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (2nd), Compliance Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Vulcan Cyber is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wiz is 10.4%, up from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2516610 - PeerSpot reviewer
Easily ingests information from different sources and offers a single pane of glass for vulnerability and asset management
It is very important for us that Vulcan Cyber offers a single pane of glass for centralizing our security data. It was one of the most important topics for us when we were searching for this kind of tool. We wanted a single pane of glass to see all our assets in the company as well as all the vulnerabilities, not only from a single scanner but from different security scanners that we use in the company. Vulcan Cyber is very good for collecting our organization’s risk signals from multiple tools and attack surfaces into a single data lake. It is able to ingest information from different sources. They also have some capabilities to deduplicate data that is already in different sources. When you see it in their platform, in their data lake as they call it, you see it as a single entry instead of having duplicates all over the place. Vulcan Cyber has had a great impact because previously, we had to review the vulnerabilities manually before going ahead and communicating them to the different owners. Now, with the automation that Vulcan Cyber provides, it is very easy for us to see exactly what is the risk of a vulnerability, not only by the CVSS score, but also depending on if the vulnerability is currently exploited in the wild, or if there are exploits that are publicly available that can be used by anyone. All of those tasks are automated by Vulcan in the backend. We see a summary of the vulnerability, so we know whether it is very critical for us because it is affecting some of our assets. It could also be floating in the wild, so we need to take care of it immediately, or it might not be as critical as we thought initially. It might be classified as a high-risk vulnerability, but there is no expert available, so we have to wait a little bit longer to patch everything. The combination of all the data that we get in the platform helps with the automation of a task. There were some decisions that we had to manually review previously. Now, with all the information provided by Vulcan in a single place for each vulnerability, it is easier for us to understand if something is really critical and needs to be patched immediately or it can wait a little bit longer until we have some spare time to patch different systems in the company. Vulcan Cyber has helped reduce our organization’s mean time to remediation. We have the capability to open some tickets automatically for different vulnerabilities we have in the platform without having to go to different ticketing tools or business owners individually. In the company, we use different ticketing tools depending on the department, so having them all integrated inside of Vulcan is helpful. Having a single button to create tickets automatically, providing all the information already gathered by Vulcan in this ticket, and then just passing the ticket to different teams impacts the remediation. Vulcan Cyber has, for sure, helped save costs for our organization when it comes to human hours spent to fix vulnerabilities. We do not have to manually review each vulnerability and go to the different threat intelligence sources to identify if there are any exploits or if they are being exploited in the wild by malicious threat actors. When we have all that information in the platform, we can make decisions based on the data that we already have. That saves a lot of human hours.
Wellington Franham - PeerSpot reviewer
Enhanced security profiling and predictive analysis in diverse industries
We are a partner and develop Wiz opportunities here in Brazil and Latin America. We already have some customers using Wiz as a DSPM platform. We use it in various industries, like retail, where it is used for security profiling and predictive analysis to identify risks. There is also a global…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Insurance Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vulcan Cyber?
Its pricing is quite fair compared to what is out there in the market, especially compared to the tool from Microsoft. It is a SaaS platform that has an annual cost, so it is something that is alre...
What needs improvement with Vulcan Cyber?
We have already requested Vulcan several features. Mainly, what I would like from them is more maintenance of the different connectors they have in the platform. You can connect different sources a...
What is your primary use case for Vulcan Cyber?
We were searching for a tool in the market that would allow us to automate our vulnerability management processes. We found Vulcan Cyber to be the best one, at least for our company, for automating...
What do you like most about Wiz?
With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Wiz?
The cost depends on workload, features, and modules, and it is not inexpensive. Other technologies, like Orca, a competitor, are also expensive.
What needs improvement with Wiz?
The tool keeps improving on a weekly basis. Wiz enters into a lot of partnerships with other technologies. I don't have any idea about the improvements needed in the tool at the moment. For me, Wiz...
 

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Stitch Fix, Mandiant, Wealthsimple, Entrust, Anaplan, Deloitte, Origami Risk, Verana Health
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