Tenable versus Wiz

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Scattered products and siloed views have left organizations struggling to defend against threats across a fragmented attack surface. Wiz stops short of the final goal-ending exposure for ALL risks.

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Why customers choose Tenable over Wiz

Exposure management

Exposure management from cloud to on-prem to OT recognized by leading industry analysts

Tenable combines cloud security with the Tenable One Exposure Management to continually manage exposure across the cloud, on-prem and critical infrastructure with one solution.

While Wiz attempts to bridge gaps with its UVM, it lacks Tenable’s unified Exposure Data Fabric that leverages the world’s largest repository of asset, exposure and risk data.

“You know, the Wiz was great, but our focus was to increase our coverage...and that's why we moved forward with Tenable.”

CISO - LATAM Retail Company1

Leader

Leader in secure cloud identities

“Who has access?” This is the greatest cloud security risk. Tenable One Cloud Exposure offers dynamic and prioritized analysis of all identities, ensuring your teams can confidently resolve toxic combinations.

Wiz lacks Identity correlation from on-prem to cloud, resulting in attack path analysis gaps and exposure to identity-based risks.

Wiz lacks granularity and detailed insights into permissions and access patterns.

Wiz lacks native support for just-in-time (JIT) access management.

“[Tenable One Cloud Exposure] goes beyond permissions visibility to reveal [identity and access management] IAM risk context that informs our busy DevOps team, facilitating their efforts in mitigating risk and minimizing disruption.”

Aidoc

“With [Tenable], we immediately saw the access-related risks to our environment and could quickly remediate them. No other solution provided this type of deep visibility into access entitlements and publicly accessible resources.”

AppsFlyer

Depth of research

Depth and breadth of research

Cloud security prioritization and threat intelligence enable more accurate, actionable vulnerability prioritization across hybrid environments.

Wiz lacks advanced and time-tested VPR, and normalization for a full understanding of risk.

150+

factors to determine a vulnerability’s risk level and identify those with the highest chance of exploitation.

VPR

Extended prioritization capabilities from cloud to traditional on-premises assets.

Compare Tenable One Cloud Exposure to Wiz

Tenable
Wiz
Tenable
Wide variety of assets: endpoints, network devices, operational technology (OT), identity systems, cloud workloads, web apps
Overall asset coverage
Wiz
Cloud and 3rd party VM focus
Tenable
Replaces a hodgepodge of tools in silos with an exposure platform to simplify operational model and lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
Unified security with Tenable One
Wiz
Point product leading to complexity and cost
Tenable
Tenable owns the largest data source for exposure intelligence and a 100+ person research team
Research and intelligence
Wiz
Can’t match the time and resources Tenable has invested
Tenable
No. 1 market share according to leading analysts
Vulnerability management
Wiz
Limited to cloud resources or 3rd VM data
Tenable
Unified, normalized security scores across multiple data fields
Exposure analytics
Wiz
Missing key entitlement analysis, no independent prioritization or data normalization
Tenable
Full visibility into entitlement requests from a single clearing house
Just-in-time (JIT) access
Wiz
Not offered
Tenable
Industry-leading context-aware identity capabilities
Identity management
Wiz
Limited in scope
Tenable
Complete inventory of federated users and groups associated with cloud accounts and their impact on risk
Federated users
Wiz
Limited in scope
Tenable
Tenable offers over 30% more bi-directional integrations
Partner ecosystem
Wiz
Smaller partner ecosystem
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Q4 2025 Analyst Report

Tenable is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms

Q3 2025 Analyst Report

Tenable named a leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Exposure Management 2025 Vendor Assessment

Q3 2025 Analyst Report

Tenable named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions, Q3 2025

Related resources

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Analyst Research
2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for CNAPP
Cyber exposure research
Tenable Cloud and AI Security Risk Report 2026

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