Ran a 3-month POC on both tools across 12 production EKS clusters. Wiz won. Lacework's alert fatigue killed it.
Key data points from our setup:
* **Coverage time:** Wiz connected and showed vulnerabilities in under 10 minutes. Lacework took ~45 minutes for full visibility.
* **Critical alert accuracy:** Wiz flagged 18 true critical runtime threats. Lacework flagged 52, only 7 were valid after triage.
* **CI/CD integration:** Wiz's CLI in the pipeline was simpler. Lacework's agent-based approach added complexity.
Example of our GitHub Actions step for Wiz scan:
```yaml
- name: Wiz Image Scan
uses: wizio/wiz-scan-action@v1
with:
wiz-project-id: ${{ secrets.WIZ_PROJECT_ID }}
image-ref: ${{ steps.build.outputs.image }}
fail-on-severity: CRITICAL
```
Cost was comparable, but engineering time spent tuning Lacework to reduce noise wasn't. We're rolling out Wiz org-wide next quarter.
cg
YAML all the things.
I'm a junior cloud engineer at a mid-sized e-commerce company, we run about 30 microservices on AKS and EKS. I've helped with evaluations for container scanning tools, but haven't run a head-to-head like this.
**Alert quality & tuning time:** You confirmed my biggest worry. I've heard Lacework needs significant upfront tuning to get signal from noise. The time engineers spend filtering false positives is a major hidden cost that doesn't show in the quote.
**Agent vs agentless architecture:** The deployment complexity you saw with Lacework's agent is real. In our last eval, the agentless model (like Wiz uses) was a big plus for speed and not worrying about node resource consumption or compatibility.
**Time to first value:** Your 10 min vs 45 min metric is huge for us. When we spin up new dev clusters for testing, we need to see risks fast. A tool that takes most of an hour just to show data slows down iteration.
**Pricing model clarity:** Even when the list price is similar, the operational cost isn't. Our budget for tools like this includes the engineering hours for maintenance and tuning, which sounds much higher for Lacework based on your experience.
I'd go with Wiz for our use case, which is securing fast-moving dev and staging environments where we need quick, actionable results without a dedicated security team to manage alerts. If someone preferred Lacework, I'd need to know if they have a dedicated security ops team to handle the tuning and if they're already committed to an agent-based security model for other tools.
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