Wiz Adds Shadow Data Detection to Identify Redundant and Stale Cloud Data
Summary
Wiz introduced Shadow Data Detection, a capability that analyzes cloud-provider inventory reports to identify duplicated, stale, and over-retained data, helping teams prioritize removal and reduce storage costs and unnecessary exposure.
Key points
- The capability identifies patterns including duplicated objects, excessive versioning, and stale data across cloud environments.
- It analyzes inventory reports generated by cloud providers and is designed to work with existing Wiz connectivity without impacting performance.
- Findings appear in a dedicated dashboard with storage impact, potential cost savings, affected objects, and remediation context.
- Teams can use built-in detection logic or define custom rules based on their data management policies.
- Wiz says early customer environments contained more than 1 exabyte of cloud storage data, with a significant portion classified as redundant or stale. This is a company-reported finding.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Product capability announcement
- Impact
- Wiz introduced Shadow Data Detection, a capability that analyzes cloud-provider inventory reports to identify duplicated, stale, unused, and over-retained data. It provides prioritized findings and estimated storage impact and potential cost savings, helping organizations reduce cloud storage costs and unnecessary exposure. Wiz reports identifying over 1 exabyte of cloud-storage data across early customer environments, with a significant portion classified as redundant or stale; it also found terabytes of redundant data in its own environment.
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