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How does Wiz scan a cloud environment without agents? [Basic]
Answer
At a high level, Wiz scans cloud environments agentlessly by connecting to cloud provider APIs with read-only permissions, inventorying resources, analyzing configurations and identities, and inspecting workload snapshots or metadata without installing software on each host.
Technical explanation
Cloud APIs provide metadata about compute, storage, networking, IAM, Kubernetes, and security services.
Snapshot-based analysis can inspect packages and files in workloads while avoiding agent deployment overhead.
The key requirement is carefully scoped read permissions and secure handling of scan data.
Hands-on example
Hands-on pattern: create a read-only cross-account role for the scanner, onboard AWS organizations, verify that all accounts are covered, then review findings grouped by subscription/account, resource owner, internet exposure, vulnerability severity, and sensitive-data context.
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