Wiz Named a Leader in Forrester’s 2026 Proactive Security Platforms Evaluation
Summary
Wiz says Forrester named it a Leader in its Q3 2026 Proactive Security Platforms evaluation, giving it top scores in eight criteria. The company also promotes its exposure management platform and AI agents.
Key points
- Wiz was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026.
- Wiz says it received the highest possible score in eight evaluation criteria, including cloud visibility and exposure, innovation, and remediation decisioning.
- The article describes Wiz’s platform for correlating security findings and prioritizing validated attack paths across cloud, code, SaaS, AI workloads, and hybrid environments.
- Wiz says its Exposure Management Dashboard supports the five CTEM stages: scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation, and remediation.
- The company describes red, blue, and green AI agents for attack-chain validation, investigation support, and remediation guidance.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Wiz was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Proactive Security Platforms, Q3 2026.
- Impact
- Forrester evaluated providers across 21 criteria. Wiz received the highest possible score (5.0 out of 5.0) in eight criteria, including Innovation, Roadmap, and Remediation Augmentation and Decisioning. The article reports no security incident or customer impact.
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Vendors
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Blue AgentBlue Agent: Connects real-time runtime telemetry directly into investigation workflows, accelerating triage and correlation for SecOps teams.Green AgentGreen Agent: Connects security and engineering by tracing risks back to their root cause (in code, IaC, or container images), identifying the right owner, and providing contextual remediation code or pull requests.Red AgentExposure & Exploitability Validation with Wiz ASM and Red Agent: Leveraging continuous Attack Surface Management (ASM) to discover external exposures and simulate real-world attacks, validating whether critical risksWiz ASMExposure & Exploitability Validation with Wiz ASM and Red Agent: Leveraging continuous Attack Surface Management (ASM) to discover external exposures and simulate real-world attacks, validating whether critical risksWiz Exposure Management Dashboardorganizations must adopt a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) strategy. The new Wiz Exposure Management Dashboard serves as a command center for operationalizing CTEM across five core stages:Wiz Security Graphacross the entire attack surface. Building upon our core graph architecture, we have expanded the Wiz Security Graph to span cloud, code, AI workloads, SaaS applications, and hybrid on-premises infrastructure.Wiz Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM)security tools (such as on-premise vulnerability scanners or SAST/DAST tools) via Wiz Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM) to prioritize them alongside native Wiz signals.