Wiz launches a new code security tool to boost cloud-native development

Cloud security company Wiz Inc. announced Today we announced the launch of Wiz Code, a new product designed to secure every stage of the product lifecycle.

Based on technology from Raftt, a cybersecurity company that Wiz acquired in December, Wiz Code was originally built within Wiz's national cloud application protection platform with the goal of bringing security and development teams closer together by ensuring cloud risks are identified and fixed directly in code. Before it escalates into serious issues.

The solution leverages deep cloud and runtime context to enable prioritization of pricing risks and suggest the right fix to the right developer. The result, according to Wiz, is a better security posture and improved collaboration between teams that allows organizations to ship secure code faster and with greater confidence.

Wiz Code integrates with developer environments and traces cloud issues back to their source in code to create a complete attack path from cloud to code and back. The service identifies critical issues in the code, continuous integration, and continuous delivery pipeline and provides fix suggestions within developer tools, all while integrating at different stages of the development lifecycle and meeting developers where they are.

Although Wiz Code is only becoming generally available today, it has been tested and Wiz claims the results were positive.

“Expanding our coverage from the first line of code to runtime has already helped our customers preview the transformation of their AppSec and DevSecOps software,” Yinon Costica, co-founder and vice president of product at Wiz, wrote in a blog post. “Now, every other organization can secure their cloud-native applications at every stage of development, protecting their code, CI/CD systems, and infrastructure in one unified platform.”

“The results are immediate: better security posture for your code and cloud, faster remediation of security issues, and improved developer productivity,” Kostica added.

Wiz was previously in the news in July when it reportedly ended acquisition talks with Google LLC. According to reports at the time, Google offered up to $23 billion to acquire Wiz, and Wiz instead decided to pursue an IPO.

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