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title: "PolicyCortex vs Wiz: evidence compared"
description: "Wiz finds cloud risk and routes findings to people and tools. PolicyCortex records hash-chained evidence in your tenant that an assessor can recompute."
url: https://policycortex.com/compare/policycortex-vs-wiz
sealed: 2026-03-17
amended: 2026-09-02
register: compare/policycortex-vs-wiz
records: 6
digest: sha3:f4e8691c593a06ca49204d8fae4ded52f299be7ee538c5bebae9202ad7c71ccb
---

# PolicyCortex vs Wiz

Register / Compare / Wiz

Wiz is cloud security posture management: agentless visibility, attack path analysis and a unified risk graph, with findings routed to people and tools. PolicyCortex is an evidence locker: it records what your cloud was, what changed it, and what your machines were allowed to do, hash chained in your tenant, so an assessor verifies it without trusting the vendor.

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## Where the evidence lives, and who can check it.

Both products, asked the same eight questions. PolicyCortex cells restate the register; Wiz cells restate what Wiz states about itself in public documentation, and say so where it does not.

**PolicyCortex and Wiz, eight questions**

| Question | PolicyCortex | Wiz |
|---|---|---|
| Where the evidence lives | The customer's tenant. Collectors, policy engine, evidence store, decision layer and export surface all run there. No telemetry pipeline to PolicyCortex servers and no egress of evidence. | Not stated by vendor |
| Verifiable by a second party | By recomputation. Export the stream, recompute SHA3-256 over each record plus the digest of the record before it, compare: INTACT, or the first sequence number where integrity fails. No PolicyCortex account or API in the loop. | Findings, attack paths and a unified risk graph are shown in the product; compliance posture is reported against framework mappings. Recomputation by a second party is not stated. |
| Tamper evidence | Hash chained and append-only. There is no update or delete verb in the store; an edit breaks the edited record and every digest after it. | Not stated by vendor |
| Gaps declared | Declared. When a collector is down or a scope is unobserved, the chain carries a gap record: stream, interval, reason, declared_at. | Not stated by vendor |
| Remediation model | Approval-gated proposals. The reasoning layer proposes and cannot execute. SHADOW executes nothing; GATED, the default, puts a named human on each action; AUTONOMOUS is limited to narrow, well-tested action classes with all three policy gates still run. | None in the product. Wiz generates findings and routes them to humans through ticketing, SIEM and SOAR integrations. |
| AI agent coverage | Proof of agency: the envelope that permitted each autonomous action, the chained record of what it did, and the counterfactual that would have blocked it. Models and agents in scope are inventoried and mapped against 64 MITRE ATLAS techniques, with unbounded techniques recorded as declared gaps. | AI security posture management is offered. MITRE ATLAS mapping is not stated. |
| Federal packaging | OSCAL 1.1.2 export with SSP, SAR, POA&M, eMASS XML and evidence indexes generated from one implementation record. AWS and Azure boundaries for ATO packaging. | None stated. Compliance reporting is framework mapped; SSP, POA&M, evidence index or reviewer handoff are not produced. |
| Evaluation | Request Access. Our team reviews your requirements and agrees on scope and commercial terms before onboarding in your tenant. | Not stated by vendor |

PolicyCortex cells restate the register pages. Competitor cells restate the vendor's public product documentation as read in March 2026; where it does not state a fact, the cell says so. Corrections to hello@policycortex.com. The register facts are stated on the [architecture](https://policycortex.com/architecture), the three proof records, and the [federal record](https://policycortex.com/federal).

## What is on record about Wiz

Wiz is a cloud security posture management platform. Its agentless architecture provides broad cloud visibility across AWS, Azure and GCP without deploying agents; its attack path analysis connects vulnerability chains; and its unified risk graph connects findings across identities, workloads and data. It integrates with ticketing, SIEM and SOAR tools, and it generates findings that are routed to humans for remediation. Its compliance reporting is framework mapped. It offers AI security posture management.

## Where the two differ

Wiz answers a security question: what is exposed right now, and how could it be chained into an attack. That is a real question, and Wiz is built for it.

The register answers an evidence question: what was true on a date somebody else names, who or what changed it under what authority, and what the machines were allowed to do. Those answers have to survive an assessor who does not trust the vendor. So the record lives in your tenant, every row is hashed and chained, absence is declared, and verification is a recomputation anyone can run. A finding in Wiz is a statement about now, shown in Wiz. A record in the register is a statement about then, checkable without us.

On remediation the two also part ways. Wiz routes findings to people and tools. PolicyCortex records a proposal that cannot execute on its own, gates it, and if it runs, writes the approving identity, the state hashes and a rollback identifier on the chain.

## When to choose which

Choose Wiz if your primary need is broad cloud risk visibility with attack path analysis and you have a security operations team, and a SOAR pipeline, to act on it.

Choose PolicyCortex if you owe an authorizing official, a C3PAO or an inventory a record that can be verified rather than viewed, and you need that record for your cloud and for the AI agents acting in it. The two answer different questions and can run side by side.

## Questions buyers ask about the two.

**Q: Does Wiz fix anything?**
A: Wiz generates findings and routes them to people and tools through ticketing, SIEM and SOAR integrations. PolicyCortex records approval-gated proposals: the reasoning layer cannot execute, a named human approves in GATED mode, and every executed action carries state hashes and a rollback identifier on the chain.

**Q: Can Wiz produce CMMC or ATO evidence?**
A: Wiz's compliance reporting is framework mapped and states current posture. It does not produce an SSP, POA&M, evidence index or reviewer handoff. The register generates SSP, SAR, POA&M, OSCAL 1.1.2 and eMASS XML from one hash-chained implementation record.

**Q: Does either cover AI agents?**
A: Wiz offers AI security posture management; MITRE ATLAS mapping is not stated. PolicyCortex records proof of agency for every autonomous action, the envelope, the act and the counterfactual, inventories the models and agents in scope, and maps exposure against MITRE ATLAS with unbounded techniques recorded as declared gaps.

**Q: Can we run both?**
A: Yes. They answer different questions: Wiz the security picture now, the register the evidence of then. Nothing in the register depends on replacing a posture tool.

## What this comparison is not.

**Stated limit.** This page compares what Wiz states in public documentation, as read in March 2026, with what the register pages state about PolicyCortex. It is not an assessment of Wiz and it does not certify anything. Where Wiz does not state a fact, the cell says so rather than guessing.

Ask us the same eight questions, in your own tenant. [Request Access](https://app.policycortex.com/auth?mode=request-access)

## Register colophon

| Seq | Label | SHA3-256 | Prev |
|---|---|---|---|
| REC 0000 | THE EVIDENCE TABLE | 60151633d605 | c83cc61a856d |
| REC 0001 | WHAT IS ON RECORD ABOUT WIZ | 6831ebf8774d | 60151633d605 |
| REC 0002 | WHERE THE TWO DIFFER | 27f26fcc9cb2 | 6831ebf8774d |
| REC 0003 | WHEN TO CHOOSE WHICH | fdf1a51bcdea | 27f26fcc9cb2 |
| REC 0004 | QUESTIONS | 929475b9fd71 | fdf1a51bcdea |
| REC 0005 | STATED LIMIT | f4e8691c593a | 929475b9fd71 |

Head sha3:f4e8691c593a06ca49204d8fae4ded52f299be7ee538c5bebae9202ad7c71ccb. Each digest is SHA3-256 over the previous digest, the register key, the record label, and the record copy; a second party can recompute it from this document.