Shieldly vs Wiz: Focused AI IAM Analysis vs Enterprise CNAPP

Wiz is an enterprise cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). It connects to your cloud accounts, builds a graph of resources, identities, and exposure, and surfaces posture issues, vulnerabilities, and attack paths across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It is a broad, organization-wide security platform with a sales-led enterprise model. Shieldly is a focused AI-Powered analyzer for AWS IAM, resource policies, and CloudFormation that explains why a specific policy is risky in plain English and hands back the tightened version — free, no signup, at the moment the policy is written. They solve different problems at very different scopes and price points.

What Wiz Is Great At

Enterprise-wide visibility and prioritization. Wiz agentless scanning, identity graph, and attack-path analysis give a security org one correlated view of risk across many accounts and clouds, including how a misconfiguration chains with a vulnerability and public exposure into a real attack path. For a large team that needs continuous, account-wide coverage and executive reporting, that breadth is the point.

Where Shieldly Fits

Wiz is built for the security organization watching the whole estate. Shieldly is built for the engineer writing the policy. It explains the why behind an AWS authorization risk and reasons about multi-step privilege-escalation chains inside a single policy — for example a PassRole paired with lambda:CreateFunction — then returns the corrected policy in the pull request. There is no procurement cycle and no account connection to try it: paste a policy into the web app, or run the @shieldly/cli, VS Code extension, GitHub Action, or @shieldly/cdk-guard construct.

Side by Side

Where Each Fits

Different scopes, and not mutually exclusive.

• Use Wiz when you need organization-wide, multi-cloud posture, attack-path analysis, and centralized reporting across many accounts.
• Use Shieldly when an engineer needs a fast, plain-English answer on a specific IAM or CloudFormation policy — free, in the PR, before it ships — or when an enterprise platform is more than a small team needs.
• In a Wiz shop, Shieldly still helps at authoring time: fix the policy before it becomes a finding the platform has to surface.

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