CrowdStrike vs. Wiz
Don’t settle for an incomplete cloud security (CNAPP) point product that can’t stop breaches.
Why customers choose CrowdStrike over Wiz
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1Reduced 6 separate consoles to 1 unified console across cloud, endpoint, and identity
780
hrs
Saved per year by avoiding cloud breach response2
75
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Reduction in mean-time-to-remediate with CrowdStrike’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service2
Complete protection without compromise
Wiz
An incomplete CNAPP
- Lacks essential cloud security capabilities
- CWP agent lacks behavioral runtime prevention, crucial for real-time response
- Reduced visibility into runtime application workloads
- Missing native security modules needed for critical alert context and attack path analysis (EDR, ITDR, threat intel, exposure management, IT assets)
CrowdStrike
The industry’s most complete CNAPP
CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security integrates all aspects of cloud security — CWP, CSPM, CIEM, CDR, and ASPM — into a unified console, enhancing threat visibility and correlation across cloud, endpoint, identity, and more, for complete attack path analysis and quicker investigations.
Battle-tested CDR that stops breaches
Wiz
Lacks essential cloud security capabilities
- No behavioral runtime prevention capabilities to stop zero-day threats in real-time
- Only covers cloud workloads, can’t prevent cross-domain breaches across endpoint, identity, and cloud
- Absence of agent-based AI/ML detection needed to catch stealthy attacks
- Forces customers to rely on third-party tools for incident response
CrowdStrike
Built to stop breaches
CrowdStrike’s advanced runtime protection capabilities are built on the same unified agent as our leading EDR and identity protection. The CrowdStrike Falcon® agent delivers deep visibility, detection, and real-time response across the entire cloud-native stack, including all workloads, containers, and Kubernetes.
Expert guidance with every step
Wiz
Incomplete CDR and lacks expert services
- Limited in-house managed services, widening the skills gaps for customers
- No in-house managed cloud threat hunting
- No cross-domain Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), penetration testing, or adversary emulation, yielding ineffective response
- No integrated threat intelligence, leaving customers unprepared for today’s sophisticated attacks
CrowdStrike
The CDR Pioneer
CrowdStrike is the only CDR that unifies world-class threat intelligence and elite 24/7 managed services with complete, industry-leading cloud security. CrowdStrike’s integrated threat intelligence tracks 257 adversaries, providing a comprehensive understanding of a wide array of potential threats, enabling organizations to anticipate and respond to attacks more effectively.
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Wiz
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
The industry’s most complete CNAPP
The industry’s only CNAPP that natively integrates CDR, CWP, CSPM, CIEM, and ASPM in a single, unified platform to stop cross-domain threats.
An incomplete CNAPP
Inadequate CNAPP lacks key cloud security features such as visibility into runtime application workloads and APIs.
Runtime Protection
Comprehensive runtime protection
The Falcon agent delivers deep visibility, detection, and real-time response across the entire cloud-native stack, including all workloads, containers, and Kubernetes applications to prevent cloud-based threats.
Immature agent
Wiz’s runtime protection capabilities are limited to static prevention rules, leaving customers unable to stop initial intrusion or ongoing attacks.
Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
The new standard in CDR
Unrivaled protection, unifying the world’s most complete CNAPP with pioneering adversary intelligence and elite 24/7 services to shut down cloud breaches.
No in-house services for CDR
Wiz has limited professional or managed services offerings, which leaves customers facing potential skill gaps in implementation, threat hunting, incident investigation, and response.
Threat Intelligence
World-class threat intelligence
CrowdStrike was named a Leader in External Threat Intelligence Services, with the highest ranking of all vendors in the Current Offering category. Full alert context and advanced detections defeats adversaries proactively.
Limited intelligence means ineffective response
Wiz has little integrated threat intelligence, leaving SOC teams blind. With no threat actor profiles, adversary tactic discovery or documented IOCs, customers are ill-equipped to defend against today’s sophisticated adversaries.
Analyst Validation
The validated market leader
CrowdStrike is a Leader in:
Cloud Workload Security
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Endpoint Protection Platforms
External Threat Intelligence
Just a follower
Wiz was only a “Strong Performer” in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2024. They were excluded entirely from the Gartner MQ for EPP and Forrester Waves for Threat Intel and MDR because they don’t offer these solutions, exposing significant gaps in their offerings.
Platform Consolidation
Unified security means better outcomes, and lower TCO
Simplify and economize. CrowdStrike reduces complexity and saves you money by providing a single, unified console designed for consolidation. Get access to world-class solutions across cloud, endpoint, identity, exposure management, next-gen SIEM, data protection, and IT automation all within the Falcon platform.
Disparate point products add complexity and cost
Wiz is a standalone point product. It doesn’t have endpoint security, identity protection, exposure management, or visibility over IT assets, forcing you to manually correlate telemetry across multiple vendors and consoles. In short: increased complexity, and costly security outcomes.
See what our customers think
It has helped tremendously to strengthen our security posture by securing our endpoints. It has helped to free up our IT department from having to constantly worry about malware and malicious software infecting our endpoints.
Chris S.
The agent is extremely lightweight and it never takes huge resources on the system. Management is extremely easy with easy dashboard. The alerts are extremely well detailed.
Abhishek R.
Exceptional EDR capabilities along with fast response from the managed SOC. I like the way the product maps out any threat/potential threat vector. It provides a great visualization for users to trace the source.
Mainak S.
Validated by industry leading analysts
1Results are from a customer. Individual results may vary.
2These numbers are projected estimates of average benefit based on recorded metrics provided by customers during pre-sale motions that compare the value of CrowdStrike with the customer’s incumbent solution. Actual realized value will depend on individual customer’s module deployment and environment.
3Accuracy rating is a measure of Charlotte AI triage decisions that match the expert decisions from the CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR team.
2These numbers are projected estimates of average benefit based on recorded metrics provided by customers during pre-sale motions that compare the value of CrowdStrike with the customer’s incumbent solution. Actual realized value will depend on individual customer’s module deployment and environment.
3Accuracy rating is a measure of Charlotte AI triage decisions that match the expert decisions from the CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR team.
