Today, we're thrilled to unveil Wiz for Exposure Management to bring holistic clarity and control across cloud, on-prem, and application environments. The exciting new capabilities of Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM) and the Sensor Workload Scanner enable customers to extend Wiz to any infrastructure, including hybrid and on-premises, leveraging Wiz’s native scanners or their existing investments.
Vulnerability management is no longer just about patching CVEs. Wiz Cloud enabled security teams to shift from managing long spreadsheets of vulnerabilities to focusing on critical cloud attack paths that lead to their crown jewels. We recently celebrated that over 50% of customers have burned down to Zero Critical Cloud issues. With Wiz Code and the power of code-to-cloud context, customers began fixing those issues at the source and preventing them from even being deployed.
But customers want to go even further and secure their entire infrastructure efficiently. Modern applications run on complex infrastructure. The front-end of a customer-facing application like an eCommerce portal may run on containers managed by Kubernetes. But when a customer goes to purchase something, the application may need to call out to a stateful database running on-prem or in a private cloud for inventory data. At the same time, the portal may also have an AI chatbot trained for live assistance and an API for resellers. Business leaders and CISOs have simple security questions - “Is my mission-critical customer app exposed?” But answering the question is challenging when security stacks are siloed, ownership is unclear, and all tools lack full context:
Traditional vulnerability management scanners have host-level context
Container scanners have Kubernetes context
SAST scanners have context on first-party code
SCA scanners have context on third-party code
API scanners have context on external exposure
Organizations are looking to shift from vertical, siloed approaches to horizontal, agile security. They want a single operating model for any type of exposure, regardless of where it exists across their complex environments. It could be a supply chain risk introduced through a code dependency, sensitive data exposed in a SaaS application, a vulnerable and unprotected API, an unpatched server sitting on-prem, or any number of other exposures. Organizations have adopted vulnerability data lakes to centralize risks and begin to streamline workflows, but lose context to prioritize and drive action.
This shift—from managing CVEs in isolation to managing real exposures across the entire attack surface—requires a new approach. That’s why a new category of solutions has emerged: Exposure Management. Designed to unify visibility, context, and remediation across cloud, code, and on-premises, Exposure Management redefines how organizations understand and reduce risk.
Exposure management is the natural evolution of vulnerability management - asset, exposure, and threat data coming together to provide accurate prioritization and remediation capabilities. It’s no longer sufficient to simply track CVEs. It’s about understanding risk exposure in context. Exposure management is moving us forward in the struggle with a never-ending backlog of vulnerabilities.
Tyler Shields, Principal Analyst, ESG
From Noise to Clarity With Exposure Management
At Wiz, we know that context is queen for effectively prioritizing and reducing risk and exposure. And now, we’re bringing that same approach to every environment and every security silo. Wiz for Exposure Management is designed to solve the longstanding challenges of vertical security: fragmented findings, disconnected tools, unclear ownership, and security data stripped of context.
Wiz for Exposure Management is an end-to-end solution for organizations that operate and need to secure complex environments.
Unify your data and discover your attack surface: Use Wiz’s open security ecosystem, powered by WIN and Wiz UVM (from our Dazz acquisition), to ingest data from your existing scanners —vulnerability tools, pen tests, SAST, DAST, and more. Gain a complete inventory of your assets and enrich them with project, environment, and ownership context, including from your CMDB.
Deduplicate alerts and prioritize with context: Centralize findings from external scanners and Wiz’s native scanners (including the Sensor Workload Scanner for on-prem) into one unified platform. Correlate and deduplicate findings from all your tools and enrich them with shared code- cloud-runtime context from the Wiz Security Graph. Finally, validate external exposure and if using the Wiz Runtime Sensor, validate that the vulnerabilities are loaded into memory—to prioritize the risks that truly matter.
Drive remediation action on critical exposures: Drive accountability with resource owners across security, dev, and infrastructure teams by automatically assigning and kicking off remediation workflows. Leverage actionable, AI-generated remediation guidance and root cause fixes in code and the IDE to further speed mean time to remediate.
Continuously improve hygiene and governance: Leverage out-of-the-box and customizable posture issues to identify and plan high ROI fixes that enhance compliance and best practices, but don’t pose an immediate risk.
Wiz UVM helps us pivot away from focusing on isolated infrastructure vulnerabilities to holistic risk-based contextual findings in a centralized place
Albin George, Senior Director - Cyber Security
Exposure Management in Action
Let’s see how this really works in practice.
Step 1: Discover assets and ownership
Start by discovering all your assets and attributing ownership to them. On the Imported Assets page, you can view every asset ingested from external tools. By integrating Wiz with your CMDB, Wiz enriches these assets with metadata such as ownership details and business context, helping you assign and prioritize effectively. You can also import your organizational structure from external systems to map assets to the right business impact.
In the example below, you can see an imported VMware vSphere VM asset scanned by Qualys, enriched with context from ServiceNow CMDB and Wiz’s agentless VMware vSphere scanner. You can review its tags to understand ownership and any additional context, such as misconfigurations that have been detected.
Step 2: Prioritize a critical production issue
Focus on Wiz Issues to address your highest-risk exposures. Wiz Issues represent attack paths in your environment, correlating multiple risk factors—such as misconfigurations, external exposure, sensitive data, secrets, and identities—so you can prioritize most critical risks.
In this example, you’ll see a critical Wiz Issue that correlates third-party scanners to Wiz context and highlights a publicly exposed machine with vulnerability (detected in this case by a third-party scanner) that also has access to sensitive data, posing a critical risk to your business that needs to be prioritized.
Step 3: Prioritize a critical code issue
Uncover how vulnerabilities in your code translate to real exposure in production. Wiz correlates findings from your code scanners with your cloud environment, enabling you to understand their impact and better prioritize.
In the example below, Wiz correlates a finding from an external SAST scanner to the cloud environment, identifying that the same branch builds a container image later instantiated as a privileged container—turning an abstract vulnerability into an actionable fix.
Step 4: Empower owners with automation and smart remediation
Wiz automatically kicks off workflows to the right teams with pre-built integrations to ticketing, messaging, and vulnerability response tools. Leverage our AI-generated remediation guidance to walk development, DevOps, and business teams through the chosen path for fixes, including through the UI or generating code for Terraform or to implement via the CLI. Alternatively, use root cause analysis to suggest a 1-click fix via a pull request directly in GitHub or your favorite VCS, to drive developer efficiency. Lastly, drive action directly within the developer’s workflow by bringing cloud-to-code context into their IDE via the Wiz MCP Server.
Step 5: Drive hygiene with high ROI actions
Leverage Posture Issues to tackle high-value fixes that improve security hygiene and governance. Here, you can see a Windows OS patch suggestion for a machine with high business impact, grouping 250 CVEs associated with the specific patch, with the exact remediation step needed. This allows you to plan a single impactful change that resolves multiple findings at once, improving efficiency and reducing risk over time.
From Silos to Unified Action
Wiz for Exposure Management unifies risk signals and helps teams take action—quickly and confidently. Whether you're aggregating findings from existing scanners or adopting Wiz’s scanning end-to-end, you gain a single platform that removes silos and empowers:
Focused prioritization: Surface the exposures that matter most with context from the Wiz Security Graph and Attack Path Analysis, reducing noise and helping teams focus on real risk.
Faster remediation: Reduce mean time to remediate (MTTR) with automated ownership mapping, contextual prioritization, and AI-powered remediation guidance.
Lower overhead: Cut manual effort and alert fatigue by deduplicating findings and correlating risk through the Wiz Security Graph.
Democratization: Add business context and assign findings to the right teams, enabling democratized workflows so the right owners can address the right issues—faster.
Ready to take control of your exposure? Wiz customers can start using the new capabilities through Preview & Migration Hub. Learn more about Wiz UVM (login required) and the Wiz Sensor Workload Scanner (login required).
