Wiz Opens Sydney Data Center and Adds Support for Australia’s Essential Eight
Summary
Wiz opened an operational Sydney data center, enabling regional data locality for customers, and added support for the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight framework.
Key points
- Wiz says its new Sydney data center is operational and available to regional customers.
- Customers can keep their data in the Sydney data center to maintain regional data locality.
- Wiz added support for the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight framework for compliance benchmarking.
- The company says all Wiz features will be available to Sydney data center customers on the same schedule as globally.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Wiz launched an operational data center in Sydney, Australia, and announced support for the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight Security Guidelines model.
- Impact
- Regional customers can keep data in the Sydney data center to maintain regional data locality and meet data sovereignty and privacy requirements. Wiz says all product innovations and features will be available on the same schedule as globally. The announcement does not report a security incident or customer impact.