Compare Elastio and Wiz
When Ransomware Bypasses Prevention, Only Elastio Ensures Clean Recovery
Executive Summary
Wiz is a CNAPP leader for prevention (posture, vulns, runtime). Elastio is a provable recovery control: it detects ransomware encryption, validates backups and storage, and proves a clean restore path.
Use Wiz to shrink the attack surface. Use Elastio to assure recovery when prevention is bypassed.
Key Differentiators
Capability | Wiz (Prevention) | Elastio (Recovery Proof) |
Misconfigurations | ✔︎ | ❌ |
Vulnerability Scans | ✔︎ | ❌ |
Posture Scanning | ✔︎ | ❌ |
Runtime Detection | ✔︎ | ❌ |
Backup Integrity Validation | ❌ | ✔︎ |
Ransomware Encryption Detection | ❌ | ✔︎ |
Backup Validation | ❌ | ✔︎ |
Last Known Clean Tracking | ❌ | ✔︎ |
Audit-grade Recovery Proof | ❌ | ✔︎ |
Side-by-Side Technical Comparison
Capability | Elastio | Wiz |
Provable recovery control | ✔︎ Yes | ❌ No |
Detects ransomware encryption | ✔︎ Yes – real-time | ❌ No |
Validates backup integrity | ✔︎ Yes - Continuous validation + Last Known Clean | ❌No |
Near real-time encryption alerts | ✔︎ Yes | ❌ No |
Air-gapped vault scanning | ✔︎ Yes - Validates AWS LAG & isolated vaults | ❌ No |
Air-gapped vault validation | ✔︎ Yes - Verifies vaults (AWS LAG, etc.) are clean | ❌ No |
Integrated Incident Response | ✔︎ Yes – built-in IR service with SIEM integration & expert ransomware guidance | ❌ No |
Recovery compliance & proof | ✔︎ Yes - Audit-ready reporting | ⚠️ Limited - Posture reporting only |
CNAPP posture & runtime detection | ➕ Complements CNAPP | ✔︎ Core strength |
Strategic role | ✔︎ Last line of defense | ✔︎ First line of defense |
Wiz = CNAPP Prevention
Wiz delivers strong security posture management, vulnerability analysis, and runtime threat detection. Its focus is on prevention: reducing cloud attack surface, hardening workloads, and blocking malicious activity before ransomware penetrates.
Wiz is a first line of defense. But prevention alone cannot guarantee recovery once ransomware lands.
Elastio = Cyber Resilience
Elastio was built for the moment prevention fails and continuously validates every backup, snapshot, and vault so CISOs and boards know recovery is possible, provable, and compliant.
Core Capabilities
- Detects Ransomware Encryption
Behavioral AI identifies true encryption activity across EC2, EBS, S3, EFS, FSx, DRS, AMIs, and snapshots—before it corrupts recovery data. - Last Known Clean Recovery Points
Automatically labels the most recent safe restore point, removing guesswork in a crisis. - Near Real-Time Protection
Scans workloads and storage continuously, flagging encryption before it spreads. - Air-Gapped Vault Validation
Verifies integrity in isolated vaults such as AWS LAG, ensuring ransomware hasn’t slipped in. - Audit-Ready Proof
Generates compliance-grade evidence for regulators (NYDFS 500.16, DORA, HIPAA, GDPR) and cyber insurers. - Proven accuracy in the field
~99.99% overall detection accuracy and 98.4% zero-day ransomware detection validated in customer environments.
Why This Matters for CISOs & CTOs
- Regulatory Alignment: Wiz helps with Identify/Protect under NIST CSF. Elastio provides the missing Detect/Recover functions, ensuring compliance with recovery requirements in NYDFS, DORA, and HIPAA.
- Risk Register Coverage: Wiz reduces the likelihood of breach. Elastio reduces impact by proving that backups and storage are uncorrupted and recoverable.
- Board-Level Assurance: Only Elastio provides audit evidence that recovery is possible, satisfying the #1 board question after an incident: “Can we recover?”
Bottom Line
- Wiz = CNAPP Prevention
Powerful for posture, vulnerability, and runtime threat management. - Elastio = Provable Recovery Control
Detects ransomware encryption, validates backups, and guarantees a clean restore path with compliance-ready proof.
Together, Wiz reduces breach likelihood; Elastio guarantees a clean restore point and audit-grade proof.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Wiz does not detect ransomware encryption in storage or backups.
Wiz is a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). Its focus is on prevention: scanning for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, secrets, and malware in runtime. Wiz’s malware scanning relies on YARA rules and hash signatures, which are effective against known malware executables but not against encryption events.
Why this matters:
- Ransomware often bypasses malware detection. Many attacks are “malware-free” and operate purely through encryption of data. Wiz has no mechanism to detect abnormal encryption activity in EC2, EBS, S3, or backups.
- Backups are blind spots. Wiz does not validate backup snapshots, vaults, or storage objects for hidden encryption. If ransomware has already been replicated into backups, Wiz provides no visibility.
- No Last Known Clean (LKC). Wiz cannot identify which backup or snapshot is uncorrupted, leaving recovery uncertain after an attack.
Elastio closes this gap.
- Continuously validates backups, workloads, and cyber vaults for hidden ransomware encryption.
- Detects encryption entropy and behavioral anomalies missed by static malware scanning.
- Provides audit-ready proof of the Last Known Clean recovery point, ensuring recoverability under ransomware scenarios.