Wiz

Wiz emerged from stealth in 2020 with a cloud security approach that departed from the agent-based paradigm that had dominated enterprise security tooling. Rather than installing software on individual virtual machines, Wiz connects directly to cloud provider APIs and uses read-only access to analyse an organisation's entire cloud environment — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others — building a graph model of every resource, permission, network exposure, and configuration. This agentless approach allows Wiz to provide full cloud estate visibility in hours rather than the weeks or months that agent rollouts typically require.

The platform gained extraordinary commercial traction, becoming one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in recent history by reaching $100 million in ARR faster than almost any previous SaaS company. Wiz's core product is its Cloud Security Graph, which correlates findings across vulnerability data, identity and access configurations, network exposure paths, and sensitive data locations to identify toxic combinations of risk rather than presenting raw lists of individual findings. Security teams use Wiz to prioritise remediation by understanding which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable given the surrounding configuration context.

When Wiz experiences platform availability problems, the consequences for enterprise security teams are significant in ways that extend beyond mere inconvenience. Cloud security graph queries that security engineers run to investigate incidents or validate compliance controls return no results during a platform outage, effectively blinding teams during the window when they may need to assess their exposure to a newly disclosed vulnerability. Automated pipeline integrations that use Wiz APIs to scan infrastructure as code deployments fail, potentially allowing misconfigured resources to reach production without security review. Compliance reporting dashboards that executives and auditors consult become inaccessible.

Outage.gg tracks Wiz platform availability through community reports from cloud security engineers and DevSecOps professionals. If the Wiz console is down, API queries are failing, or cloud environment scanning is not completing, the live status page shows what the security community is currently reporting.