How to Achieve Proactive Cloud Security on AWS with Wiz and AllCloud
The cloud is full of opportunities, but IT leaders struggle with three persistent cloud security challenges: lack of unified multi-account visibility, being stuck in a reactive security posture, and managing complex AWS compliance burdens. This blog explains how the Wiz Security Platform, leveraging its agentless approach and Security Graph, provides clear, actionable answers. Ultimately, we demonstrate how partnering with AllCloud, a specialized expert and Global AWS Security Competency Partner, enables you to move from firefighting to achieving true proactive cloud security.
You may be wondering, “What is Proactive Cloud Security?” It is a methodology that uses continuous, automated governance and posture management to identify and fix security risks like misconfigurations before they can ever be exploited.
Solving Multi-Account Visibility with Wiz’s Agentless Security
The challenge is clear: How can IT leaders get a single, unified view of all security risks across their multi-account AWS environment to eliminate blind spots?
This is the number one challenge we hear from our customers. In a fragmented cloud landscape, it’s almost impossible to see every corner of your environment. Traditional security tools often create more headaches than they solve, requiring invasive agents that slow down systems and still miss crucial attack vectors between assets. Without a clear picture, you’re left with a reactive security posture, constantly putting out fires instead of preventing them.
Wiz tackles this problem head-on. The core issue of cloud visibility is solved by Wiz’s agentless cloud scanning. Utilizing an API-based architecture, Wiz provides a comprehensive, real-time inventory of your entire cloud infrastructure in minutes, ensuring no performance hit, deployment friction, or blind spots.
The central component of this solution is the Wiz Security Graph. It’s a dynamic map that shows the relationships between your cloud assets, configurations, and data. This contextual insight helps you shift from a messy list of isolated alerts to a prioritized, actionable plan for remediation.
The Security Graph is specifically designed to help you pinpoint and fix hidden configuration flaws before they become a disaster, directly addressing the reality that, according to Gartner, misconfigurations are responsible for up to 99% of all cloud security failures.
Shifting from Reactive to Proactive Cloud Security: Prioritization and Prevention
The modern cloud landscape is so dynamic that a reactive security model is simply not sustainable. Yet, many teams are constantly playing catch-up, overwhelmed by a flood of alerts, trying to identify the best strategies for shifting from a reactive to a proactive cloud security posture on AWS.
The answer lies in two key areas: prioritization and prevention.
- Prioritization: You can’t fix everything at once. Wiz’s Attack Path Analysis goes beyond simple severity ratings. It evaluates risks based on their potential to lead to a breach, helping your team focus on the vulnerabilities that pose the most significant threat. This allows you to allocate your limited resources to the issues that truly matter.
- Prevention: Proactive security is about stopping threats before they start. By continuously monitoring your cloud environment and using tools that provide real-time threat detection and remediation, you can identify and shut down potential attack vectors the moment they appear. This is how you gain confidence that your environment is protected, not just monitored.
Overcoming the Talent Gap: Why Outsourcing Cloud Security Expertise Saves Money
Even with the best tools, a lack of expertise can turn a powerful platform into a source of frustration. Many IT leaders find it challenging to manage complex cloud security without having a large, in-house security team.
The reality is, the cybersecurity talent gap is a global problem. It’s expensive and difficult to hire and retain security experts who are proficient in both AWS security and platforms like Wiz. This often leads to inefficient monitoring, a high volume of false alarms, and a general feeling of being overwhelmed. That’s why relying on external, specialized security expertise is no longer optional—it’s critical for maintaining a compliant posture.
This is where a specialized partner comes in. While a platform like Wiz provides the “what”—the incredible technology—a partner provides the “how.” A managed security service provider (MSSP) like AllCloud fills the gap by providing the strategic expertise to set up, optimize, and manage your Wiz environment.
As an AWS Premier Partner and a Global AWS Security Competency Partner, AllCloud offers:
- Deep Expertise: Our team combines elite-level AWS knowledge with extensive Wiz experience, providing you with a “best security architect and best security operator” in one.
- Operational Excellence: We help you maximize your Wiz investment, eliminating alert fatigue and ensuring your security controls are integrated seamlessly across your AWS environment.
- Focus on Business: We handle the complex day-to-day security operations, freeing up your internal teams to focus on innovation and core business functions.
Automating AWS Compliance: Continuous Monitoring for Highly Regulated Industries
For highly regulated industries like Healthcare and Financial Services, cloud compliance regulations are a constant source of stress. The pressure is on to prove you’re always in compliance and, especially for a large organization, adhering to regulations like HIPAA, GDPR, or PCI-DSS on AWS.
Wiz and a partner like AllCloud automate much of this burden. The Wiz platform continuously scans for compliance gaps, and AllCloud ensures your AWS environment is optimized to meet these standards. With pre-configured templates and automation, you can generate auditor-ready reports instantly, turning a stressful, manual process into a simple, automated one. This provides continuous compliance monitoring and evidence for auditors in a multi-account AWS setup.
Ready to Secure Your Cloud and Accelerate Innovation?
Cloud security doesn’t have to be a source of anxiety. The common challenges of multi-cloud visibility, regulatory pressure, and operational overload can all be addressed with the right combination of technology and expertise.
Wiz provides the visibility and insights you need to understand your security posture, and AllCloud provides the strategic guidance and hands-on support to turn those insights into real action. Together, we can transform your security from a reactive burden into a proactive strategic advantage.
Contact AllCloud today to learn more about our Wiz Professional Solutions and how we can help you navigate the complexities of modern cloud security.