| Your decision | Wiz | Elastio |
|---|---|---|
| Investigate a compromise | Agentless file-pattern detection and workload-log analysis; Wiz Defend combines these with cloud context and runtime signals.[1][2][3] | Pursuit’s AI agents follow leads through code, configuration, and recorded activity in supported system copies. It links the finding to source artifacts, confidence, and unresolved questions. |
| Guide the response | The Blue Agent provides AI threat investigation. Wiz Workflows supports automated response and containment playbooks.[3] | Pursuit builds a plan around the image, VM, or snapshot, investigates related systems, and examines replacements. Your team reviews and executes containment and recovery actions. |
| Assess data and recovery copies | Wiz documents malware inspection and detection of anomalous access to sensitive data, with cloud context.[1][3] | Hunt analyzes live data, replicas, and backups for ransomware damage, malware, and corruption. Findings inform which copies to consider for recovery. |
Elastio and Wiz
Investigate attacker footholds. Guide the response.
Add repeatable investigation of machine images and snapshots to your cloud security workflow. Pursuit explains how an attacker maintains access and guides the response. Hunt examines the data and copies your recovery depends on.
Security decisions / Supported by evidence
Deploy, remediate, and recover with evidence.
Investigate the image before deployment, examine a fresh snapshot after remediation, and assess the copy before recovery. Elastio connects the attacker’s foothold, the response plan, and the evidence for your next decision.
Recorded Pursuit investigation / PacketBuffer
A startup script. A recurring secret-capture chain.
The recorded investigation links a persistent startup mechanism to code that captures TLS session secrets and writes them to a remote share.
- 01 / Persistence
Identify persistence.
Machine Group Policy Startup invokes
packet_buffer.ps1. - 02 / Code
Explain the behavior.
The script launches Frida with
tls.jsagainstlsass.exeto capture TLS secrets. - 03 / Corroboration
Connect the records.
A hidden scheduled job and Sysmon records support repeated execution of the chain.
Recorded findings F-001 and F-002. Historical execution is documented; the record does not establish current activity or a completed remediation.
Open the recorded investigation →Investigation → Response → Recovery
Put the finding to work.
Pursuit turns findings into a guided response plan. It investigates related systems, adapts the plan as results arrive, and examines replacement images and systems.
Your team reviews and executes containment, rebuild, and restore steps. Hunt’s analysis of the data and available copies informs the recovery decision.
A product demonstration of the evidence, response plan, and follow-up investigation.
Sources and scope · Reviewed October 10, 2026
- Wiz: agentless YARA detection
- Wiz: agentless workload detection
- Wiz Defend: investigation and response
Availability varies by product, edition, source, and deployment. The recorded case demonstrates Elastio’s investigation; it is not a head-to-head detection test.