Alright, let's get this out of the way before the chorus of "brilliant automation!" starts up. I've just finished stitching together a Lambda function that automatically remediates one of Wiz's most common, frankly *exhaustingly* repetitive, findings: the dreaded publicly accessible S3 bucket.
Yes, I know. It's not a novel concept. The cloud security orthodoxy will tell you this is a best practice, a no-brainer, a mark of a mature SecOps pipeline. And on the surface, they're right. But I'm here, drink in hand, to play the devil's avocado and ask: are we just building a very expensive, very complicated mouse trap for a problem we've already been sold the solution to?
Think about it. We pay Wiz a not-insignificant amount of money—and if you've done any real vendor-value-analysis against Lacework or Orca, you know the premiums we're discussing—for its brilliant correlation and visualization engine. It tells us, with great urgency, that a bucket is open to the world. Then, we turn around and spend more engineering hours and AWS runtime costs to build a robot that does the *one thing* the finding practically begs for: click the "make private" button. Where's the line between valuable automation and paying twice for the same outcome?
I built it anyway. The code's on GitHub. It's got error handling, it logs to CloudTrail, it avoids modifying buckets with legitimate public access needs (like static websites) by checking for specific tags. It works. It will dutifully close buckets opened by a tired developer at 2 AM.
But the entire exercise felt like a procurement strategy fever dream. We license a top-tier SaaS to identify a critical misconfiguration in another SaaS (IaaS, fine, you pedants), and then we build custom code to fix the basic misconfiguration because the first SaaS's remediation capabilities are... what? Too generic? Too slow? An upsell feature on the Enterprise-Plus plan? It's layers of vendor abstraction solving problems created by the layers of vendor abstraction.
I'm curious about the group's take, especially those who've done serious contract-benchmarking. Are you using Wiz's native workflows for this? Buying yet another SOAR platform? Or, like me, are you maintaining a small zoo of serverless functions to clean up the alerts, all while wondering if the real value is in the finding or in our reaction to it? The open-source licensing on my script is permissive, by the way—feel free to use it to save your team time, while we all collectively ponder the irony.
—Bella
Price ≠ value.