Wiz Opens Public Preview of Secured Container Images

Summary

Wiz has opened a public preview of WizOS, a catalog of minimal container images built from source, with SBOMs and provenance, CVE remediation SLAs, and platform features to identify and prioritize image swaps.

Key points

WizOS is available in public preview to Wiz customers.
Wiz says its images are built from source in a hardened pipeline and include SBOMs and provenance.
The company says it maintains images under CVE remediation SLAs and aims to keep vulnerabilities near zero.
Wiz's platform inventories container images, identifies potential WizOS replacements, and prioritizes swaps by risk.
The article reports Wiz research found 39% of critical and high container vulnerabilities came from base images.
Wiz says future additions will include application-specific and STIG-hardened images, plus CI/CD and admission-controller guardrails.

Article Details

Event Type: Public preview launch of WizOS secured container images and an accompanying adoption platform.
Impact: WizOS provides minimal container images built from source, with SBOMs and provenance, and ongoing CVE remediation. The platform helps organizations inventory container images, prioritize replacements, and migrate to secured images; Wiz reports that 39% of critical and high container vulnerabilities in its customer-base analysis came from base images. The article describes product capabilities and preview availability, not a security incident.

People

Emil VaaglandHead of Product Security at Vend, quoted describing the experience adopting WizOS images.Tuomas VähänenStaff Security Engineer at Wolt, quoted describing the value of adopting secured images.

Vendors

WizEarlier this year we announced the private preview of WizOS: secured, minimal container images built from source and maintained by Wiz at near-zero CVEs.

Products

Mika AIMika AI-powered adoption guidance: Unsure where to start?Wiz Admission ControllerOur platform will soon give customers the ability to add guardrails in CI/CD and via the Wiz Admission Controller to ensure only secured images are deployed to production. This is just the starting point for a broader Wiz platformBacked by the Wiz platform, WizOS makes secured images easy to adopt and scale:WizOSEarlier this year we announced the private preview of WizOS: secured, minimal container images built from source and maintained by Wiz at near-zero CVEs.