Comparison · agent governance · Wiz

Wiz, measured.

Q: What does Wiz offer for AI security?

Wiz covers AI through AI-SPM and AI-APP on its Security Graph. It discovers AI services, models, agents and MCP connections agentlessly across clouds and agent studios, builds an AI bill of materials of models, frameworks, SDKs and IDE extensions, flags AI misconfigurations and exposed endpoints, and draws attack paths to AI resources. At runtime, Wiz Defend detects threats such as prompt injection and rogue agents, and an add-on sensor watches workloads.

Q: Does Wiz block AI agent actions at runtime?

Not as a verdict on each action. Wiz documents its AI runtime protection as detection: Wiz Defend monitors AI behaviour out-of-band and raises detections for prompt injection, rogue agents and anomalous egress, followed by investigation, tickets and containment playbooks. The add-on Wiz Sensor can block threats on a workload and kill malicious processes, which stops the process rather than one action while the agent keeps running.

Q: Is Wiz part of Google now?

Yes. Google's acquisition of Wiz has closed, and Wiz now operates as part of Google Cloud. It keeps its own brand and product line, stays available for AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud as well as Google Cloud, and is sold directly, through partners and through cloud marketplaces.

Q: How does Wiz tie an agent's action to a person?

Through the cloud identity the agent uses. Wiz maps each agent to the identities, workloads and data it touches, and its detections read cloud logs and runtime events that name the role or service account that acted. Owners are recorded to route findings and fixes to the right team. Agen maps every agent to a named accountable owner and attributes each individual action to that person, autonomous runs included.

Q: Can Agen.co run alongside Wiz?

Yes. Cloud posture, attack paths and the AI bill of materials are where Wiz is strongest, and they sit at a different point from Agen. Wiz secures the cloud an agent runs in; Agen governs the action the agent takes, in under 30ms, and resolves it to a named human. Nothing in your Wiz deployment has to change.

Q: Where does Wiz score better than Agen.co?

Four rows of sixteen outright, and three more are level. Posture review of agent configuration before deployment. The AI bill of materials. Prompt-injection detection. Ecosystem reach, with more than 300 integrations and Google Cloud's distribution. Level with us on agentless discovery, on agents built on any cloud or agent studio, and on time to a first inventory.

Q: How is Wiz priced?

Wiz quotes custom pricing. Its AWS Marketplace listing prices the platform per block of 100 cloud workloads, a workload being a VM, container or serverless function, with the Wiz Sensor and Wiz Defend sold as add-ons to the advanced plan. Agen is priced per governed agent with no prerequisite tier.

Q: How current is this comparison?

Every Wiz score comes from Wiz's and Google's own product pages, announcements and marketplace listing, and the page is re-scored against them on a fixed internal cadence. Each published row cites at least one of the fourteen primary sources listed above, so any row can be checked against the source directly.

Wiz brings AI security into the cloud platform many security teams already run: AI-SPM, an AI bill of materials, and runtime detection through Wiz Defend. This page scores that approach across 16 capabilities against the same capabilities in Agen.co, with the sources, the scoring ladder, the ties and the four rows Wiz wins all on the page.

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The short answer

Wiz for AI security means AI-SPM on the Wiz Security Graph: agentless discovery of models, agents, MCP connections and AI services across every major cloud and agent studio, an AI bill of materials, misconfiguration rules and AI attack paths.
At runtime, Wiz detects. Prompt injection, rogue agents and anomalous egress are watched out-of-band and answered with investigation, tickets and containment, not a verdict on the action before it lands.
An agent is mapped to the cloud identities, workloads and data it can reach. Owners are recorded to route findings and fixes. No accountable human is carried on each action the agent takes.
Wiz wins four rows of sixteen: pre-deployment posture review, the AI bill of materials, prompt-injection detection, and ecosystem reach. Three are level: agentless discovery, agents on any cloud or studio, and time to a first inventory.
Wiz is now part of Google Cloud. It keeps its own brand, stays multicloud, and is priced per block of cloud workloads, with the runtime sensor and Wiz Defend sold as add-ons.
Agen governs the action an agent takes, in under 30ms, and resolves it to the human behind the agent. Wiz secures the cloud the agent runs in. The two sit at different points and run side by side.

The long read

What Wiz sees, and what it decides.

Wiz earned its place by seeing a whole cloud estate without installing anything and turning what it found into attack paths a team can act on. Its AI security applies that same method to models and agents. It is a strong answer to which AI exists and what it could reach. It is a different question from whether this agent may take this action, now, for that person.

How Wiz packages AI security

Wiz sells three products, Wiz Cloud, Wiz Code and Wiz Defend, and its AI coverage runs through all of them. Since the Google acquisition closed it operates as Wiz inside Google Cloud, under its own brand, and still covers AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud alongside Google's.

AI-SPMagentless discovery of AI services, models, agents and MCP connections, built-in rules for AI misconfigurations, exposed inference endpoints, and AI attack paths drawn on the Security Graph across identity, network, data and vulnerabilities.
AI-BOMan inventory of the components inside AI systems: models, frameworks such as LangChain, SDKs, libraries and AI IDE extensions, with shadow AI flagged next to sanctioned tools.
AI-APPthe umbrella for securing AI applications from code to runtime: agents found in managed services and agent studios, custom agents found through code and workload analysis, and the tools each agent can call classified by what they can do.
Wiz Defend and the Wiz Sensordetection and response built from cloud logs, runtime signals and Security Graph context. An eBPF sensor, sold as an add-on, watches workloads and can block threats on them, and a sensor for developer workstations is in private preview.

Where Wiz is strongest

Four of the sixteen rows below go to Wiz and three are level. Each comes from the same vantage point: connected to the whole cloud through its APIs, looking at an agent before and around the moment it acts rather than from inside it.

Posture before deploymentmisconfiguration rules for AI services, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and attack paths that join an agent's permissions to the data and exposure behind them. We judge the action rather than the configuration, which is what lets one policy reach an agent however it was configured.
The AI bill of materialsmodels, frameworks, SDKs and IDE extensions inventoried across code and cloud. We discover the agents and MCP servers themselves, and govern what they do rather than cataloguing what they are built from.
Prompt-injection detection and distributionprompt injection and rogue-agent behaviour detected with full cloud context, and more than 300 integrations with Google Cloud's channel behind them. Agen runs alongside that footprint rather than in place of it.
Level on discovery and time to valueagentless discovery through cloud APIs, agents on any major cloud or agent studio, and an inventory within minutes of connecting. On those three, both columns carry the same score.

Detection is not a decision

Wiz's own description of its AI runtime layer is precise: Wiz Defend monitors AI behaviour out-of-band and detects prompt injection, rogue agents and anomalous data egress. Out-of-band means the agent's call has already gone through by the time the detection is raised. What follows is a good response, with an AI investigator triaging the alert, a ticket to the owner, and containment of the workload if it comes to that.

That is why the moment-of-action row scores a 2 rather than a 5. The sensor can block threats on a workload and kill a malicious process, and the table does not ignore it, but stopping a process is not the same as refusing one action while the agent carries on. An agent with a valid cloud role that reads the wrong table or sends the wrong message is doing something its permissions allow. Posture can tell you in advance that the role is too broad. Only a verdict at the moment of action can stop that one call.

A role in the log, not a person

Wiz maps each agent to the identities, workloads and data it touches, and that map is the core of its attack-path analysis. Detections read cloud logs and runtime events, so when an agent acts the record names the role or service account it used.

Owners exist in Wiz, but they exist to route work: which team gets the finding, who should merge the fix. An owner for remediation is not a named human answerable for each action an agent takes. When an autonomous agent acts on a cloud role at night, the record says which credential acted. Accountability needs the person behind the agent.

Three questions to ask of Wiz for AI security

Nobody disputes how much of a cloud Wiz can see. What separates the two products is what happens next, and each of the table's first three groups puts one question to it.

Be at runtimeis there a decision before an agent's action lands? Wiz watches out-of-band and responds after a detection. The question is the action an agent takes with permissions it already holds.
Know the identitycan the action be resolved to a named, accountable human? Wiz resolves it to a cloud identity and routes the finding to an owning team. The role stands where a person would.
Cover everythingdoes it reach agents that do not live in a cloud account: on a laptop, in a browser, or bought as a SaaS product? Wiz covers the cloud and agent studios completely, workstations in preview, and documents no browser control.

Buying it is the fourth group. For a team already on Wiz, AI-SPM sits in the console they use every day, which is a real advantage. The unit is cloud workloads rather than agents, and runtime coverage adds the sensor and Wiz Defend on top of the base plan.

The scored comparison

Sixteen capabilities, scored side by side.

Runtime enforcement, identity and accountability, coverage, and what it costs to operate — each scored 0–5 on capability depth against vendor documentation, including the four rows Wiz wins.

Capability depthNoneComplete
01 · Runtime enforcement
Verdict rendered at the moment of action	WizDetects out-of-band, then respondsPartial2/5	Agen.coPer-action verdicts, <30msComplete5/5
Blocks a single action without disabling the agent	WizContainment acts on the workloadPartial2/5	Agen.coAction-level enforcementComplete5/5
Posture review of agent configuration before deployment	WizMisconfigurations and AI attack pathsComplete5/5	Agen.coGoverns the action, not the configPartial2/5
Prompt-injection and content-threat detection	WizDetected out-of-band, not blockedCapable3/5	Agen.coAction-level, not prompt inspectionPartial2/5
02 · Identity & accountability
A named human accountable for each agent	WizOwners route findings, not actionsPartial2/5	Agen.coNamed owner, every agentComplete5/5
Each individual action attributed to that human	WizCloud logs name the rolePartial2/5	Agen.coAttributed per actionComplete5/5
Access evaluated at action time, not only at grant time	WizPermissions mapped, not judged per actionPartial2/5	Agen.coJudged in context, per actionComplete5/5
03 · Coverage
Endpoint enforcement	WizWorkstation sensor, private previewPartial2/5	Agen.coAgenShield on the deviceComplete5/5
Browser enforcement	WizNo browser control documentedBasic1/5	Agen.coBrowserShield, early accessCapable3/5
Agentless discovery — no SDK, no self-registration	WizAgentless, API-connected in minutesComplete5/5	Agen.coAgentless, 5 surfaces, no SDKComplete5/5
AI bill of materials — models, frameworks, SDKs	WizModels, frameworks, SDKs, IDE extensionsComplete5/5	Agen.coAgents and MCP servers, not componentsPartial2/5
Agents built outside the vendor's own stack	WizEvery major cloud and agent studioComplete5/5	Agen.coAny agent, any stackComplete5/5
MCP tool governance	WizMCP servers mapped, not each callPartial2/5	Agen.coMCP tools governed per callComplete5/5
04 · Operate & buy
Pricing unit — what you are billed per	WizPer 100 cloud workloadsCapable3/5	Agen.coPer governed agentComplete5/5
Time to first governed agent	WizAPI connectors, minutes to inventoryComplete5/5	Agen.coDays to a first governed agentComplete5/5
Ecosystem and marketplace breadth	Wiz300+ integrations, Google Cloud distributionComplete5/5	Agen.coFocused platform, not a marketplacePartial2/5

9 rows Agen.co leads3 tied4 rows Wiz leads

Levels reflect capability depth and supporting evidence. Capability descriptions based on vendor public documentation.

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Thirty minutes, row by row, including the ones we lose to Wiz. You leave with the same table, scored for your environment. Tell us anything we should know in the comments.

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What the table shows

Wiz secures the cloud the agent runs in, not the action it takes.

The scores give Wiz its due: four rows won outright on posture review, the AI bill of materials, prompt-injection detection and ecosystem reach, and three level on agentless discovery, multicloud coverage and time to a first inventory. Very few products see a cloud estate as completely.

One line in the architecture accounts for the rest. Wiz observes from the side and acts after a detection, and what it observes carries a cloud identity rather than the human behind the agent. The cards below follow that line through each group of the table.

Reading the table

What Wiz's scores mean once an agent acts.

One card per table group, read for one agent: fully visible in Wiz, with a valid role, taking an action nobody approved.

Seen in full, stopped after the fact

Misconfigurations, attack paths and prompt injection are all surfaced, and the posture work behind them is the strongest in its category. But the runtime layer watches out-of-band, so the action lands before the detection, and response stops the workload rather than the one call.

inline verdict on an actionnone

A cloud role in the record, a team on the ticket

Every agent is mapped to the identities, workloads and data it can reach, and findings route to an owning team. The action itself is recorded against the role that performed it, so the record cannot say which person answers for the agent.

owner per actionnone

Complete in the cloud, thinner off it

Agentless discovery, an AI bill of materials and coverage of every major cloud and agent studio, scored level or better. Off the cloud, the developer-workstation sensor is in private preview, no browser control is documented, and MCP servers are mapped rather than governed per call.

browser controlnone

Already in the console, priced by workload

For a team on Wiz, AI-SPM is minutes away and sits behind 300+ integrations and Google Cloud's distribution. The billing unit is blocks of cloud workloads, with the runtime sensor and Wiz Defend sold on top, so the cost tracks the estate rather than the agents in it.

billing unitcloud workloads

Watch it happen

A verdict before the action lands, not an alert after it.

Every agent action judged against your policy at the moment it happens, with allow, step-up, approval, masking and deny all available, and the verdict resolved to the human who owns the agent, whatever cloud role it runs under.

per-action policy · live product scene

What closes the gap

Keep Wiz on the cloud. Govern the agent.

Keep mapping your cloud and your AI estate. Agen governs the layer above it: every agent discovered agentlessly, cloud-hosted or not, given an identity and a named owner, and every action judged against your policy at the moment it happens.

Select a capability

Continuous discovery across your IdP, gateway, devices, cloud, and registries. Nothing has to self-register: agents are found, risk-scored, and resolved to a named human before they act.

Agentless and API-based across five surfaces
First-party, custom, and third-party agents alike
Every agent mapped to an owner, approver, and escalation

Agen Discover AI agent discovery flow: any identity provider, productivity suites and assistants, cloud, gateway, endpoints, and MCP server registries all feed one agent registry where every AI agent is inventoried, risk-scored on arrival, given a named human owner, and shadow AI is surfaced. — Discovery pulls from five surfaces into a single agent registry — no SDK self-registration required.

ClosesWhich agents are running that nobody registered?

no SDK required5 surfacesowner-mapped

Discover in depth →

Every request is evaluated against the identity behind the agent and answered in under 30ms: allow, mask, step up, hand to a human, or deny. The action is where the risk lives, so the action is where the decision happens.

Per-action verdicts anchored to the human behind the agent
Step-up and human-in-the-loop only when policy is crossed
Evidence generated at action time, not reconstructed later

Agen Govern runtime AI agent governance flow: an attempted action such as an assistant reading a document, an agent exporting records, or a custom agent writing to production is resolved to the identity behind the agent and checked against policy in 22 milliseconds, returning a per-action verdict of allow, mask, step-up, human-in-the-loop, or deny. — Every agent action is judged in-line against the human behind it, and answered in under 30ms.

ClosesWho approved this action, and who is accountable for it?

<30ms verdictstep-uphuman-in-the-loop

Govern in depth →

One policy plane enforced identically on the endpoint, in the browser, at the gateway, and in the cloud. Agent risk lives in the gaps between point tools, so there are no gaps to live in.

AgenShield stops dangerous local actions before they execute
BrowserShield catches company data at the paste (early access)
One policy, one identity chain, enforced the same way everywhere

Agen Shield AI agent enforcement flow: one policy plane written once in Govern and anchored to the same identity is enforced identically on the endpoint with AgenShield, in the browser with BrowserShield, at the gateway across 150+ connectors, and in the cloud across SaaS and internal apps. — One policy, written once, enforced the same way on every surface where agents actually run.

ClosesWhat happened on the laptop and in the browser that no log saw?

endpointbrowsergateway · cloud

Shield in depth →

Methodology

How these scores were reached.

Thirty capabilities were scored against the ladder in our internal rubric; sixteen are published here. Fifteen more rows in the standard set were not scored and are not published on any page: six because the only finding was an absence in public documentation, which is weaker evidence than a documented limit; seven because the two products are built so differently that the row would not be a fair like-for-like, among them gateway, network and connector rows for a product that is not inline; one for lack of a primary source; and one because it is still being confirmed on our side. Each score reflects capability depth in the vendor's best available configuration.

Sources14 primary

Evidence ledger

Alphabet — Google completes acquisition of WizTier AWiz joins Google Cloud, keeps its brand, remains available on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud, and is offered through partners and Google Cloud Marketplace.
Wiz — AI-SPMTier AAgentless discovery of AI services, technologies and SDKs with AI-BOM; models, agents and services discovered across PaaS, SaaS and custom deployments; AI tool identification, AI security rules, exposed endpoints and AI attack paths; AI runtime protection to detect prompt injection, rogue agents and malicious behaviour.
Wiz — securing AI agents with AI-SPMTier AAgentless discovery including MCP connections; agents mapped to the identities, workloads and data they touch and connected to owners; runtime monitoring detects drift and suspicious behaviour; fixes and tickets through Jira, ServiceNow or CI/CD.
Wiz — introducing AI-APPTier ADetect and respond across model activity, workload execution and the cloud layer; agents covered on AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, Vertex AI, OpenAI and Copilot Studio, custom agents found through code and workload analysis; agent tools classified by capability.
Wiz — what is AI-APPTier AAt runtime, Wiz Defend monitors behaviour out-of-band, detecting prompt injection, rogue agents and anomalous data egress.
Wiz — Wiz DefendTier ADetection and response from sensor signals, cloud and SaaS logs and agentless context; AI runtime protection detects prompt injection, model exfiltration and MCP server attacks; containment playbooks; identity detection and response; the Wiz Sensor blocks threats on workloads and is an add-on to Wiz Defend.
Wiz — is Wiz a runtime security toolTier AThe Runtime Sensor is an eBPF sensor across containers, Kubernetes, VMs, serverless, Windows and AI infrastructure; the agentless Security Graph and the sensor run in parallel; Wiz Defend is the detection and response layer.
Wiz — at Google Cloud NextTier AAI-BOM inventories AI frameworks, models and IDE extensions; coverage extended to AWS AgentCore, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Azure Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce and Databricks.
Google Cloud — Next '26 with WizTier AWiz, now part of Google Cloud, protects AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and Oracle Cloud plus OpenAI and agent studios; Wiz Defend detections forwarded to Google Security Operations.
Wiz — sensor for developer workstationsTier APrivate preview on Windows and macOS; inventories IDE extensions, AI coding agents and MCP servers; detects supply-chain attacks and kills malicious processes; unapproved AI tools flagged and engineers notified through Workflows.
AWS Marketplace — Wiz listingTier BPlans priced per 100 cloud workloads (a VM, container or serverless function); Wiz Sensor and Wiz Defend sold as add-ons to the advanced plan; a 100% API approach that deploys in minutes.
Wiz — pricingTier BCustom quote; Wiz One and Wiz Go bundles or à la carte options.
Wiz — first six months as part of GoogleTier AWiz keeps its own brand and multicloud product line inside Google Cloud; the Wiz Integration Network passes 300 integrations; co-sell and marketplace purchasing expanded.
Wiz — Wiz CloudTier AAgentless visibility across any cloud, platform or AI environment; connect within minutes using API connectors; used by more than 65% of the Fortune 100.

Vendor capabilities change. If a row is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will re-score it — corrections are published with the date they were made.

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