Alternatives guide · 2026

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Aona protects employee use of third-party AI tools on managed devices, including the prompt and upload path.

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Workforce AI Security for the employee-to-AI surface that cloud posture tools do not inspect: a browser plugin for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari plus a native endpoint app that inspects prompts to ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude desktop at submit, hard block with no user override, layout-preserving DOCX, XLSX and PDF redaction on upload, real-time coaching, and Microsoft Sentinel export via OCSF. SOC 2 Type II and a self-serve 30-day trial, live within hours.

Best for: Any organisation whose employees use ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude or Gemini and that needs the prompt and the upload governed on the device, alongside whatever secures the models and pipelines it hosts.

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Aona AIBuilt for employee AI securityAny organisation whose employees use ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude or Gemini and that needs the prompt and the upload governed on the device, alongside whatever secures the models and pipelines it hosts.
Workforce AI Security for the employee-to-AI surface that cloud posture tools do not inspect: a browser plugin for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari plus a native endpoint app that inspects prompts to ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude desktop at submit, hard block with no user override, layout-preserving DOCX, XLSX and PDF redaction on upload, real-time coaching, and Microsoft Sentinel export via OCSF. SOC 2 Type II and a self-serve 30-day trial, live within hours.
WizOrganisations whose AI risk is the models, pipelines and data they host across multi-cloud estates.
Cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) with AI security posture management for hosted models, training data, AI-BOM and cloud misconfiguration. Its control point is the cloud estate, not the employee's device.
Harmonic SecurityOrganisations that want prompt-text redaction and nudges across browsers and desktop AI clients, bought by demo or through AWS Marketplace.
Browser extension plus a desktop client (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Ollama) with real-time prompt redaction and an MCP gateway. Bought by demo or through its AWS Marketplace listing, as of September 2026.
WitnessAIOrganisations that want AI controls applied in a network path they already route traffic through.
Network-based AI security and governance that observes and controls AI traffic without browser extensions or endpoint clients; desktop AI apps are covered when their traffic is routed through it. An Instant Demo product tour stands in for a self-serve trial, and the product is also listed on AWS Marketplace, as of September 2026.
Prompt SecurityOrganisations that want employee and application AI security bought together through the SentinelOne Singularity platform.
GenAI security platform from SentinelOne, built into the Singularity platform: employee AI controls with anonymisation and coaching, an LLM firewall for applications, and an AI endpoint agent for local LLMs and MCP servers (February 2026). Sold by demo, with no self-serve trial, as of September 2026.
Microsoft PurviewMicrosoft 365 estates that want Copilot and Microsoft 365 data governed inside the Purview licensing model.
Microsoft's data security and compliance suite. Its AI controls run in the browser (the Purview extension is required for Chrome endpoint DLP on Windows), prompt and response visibility for third-party AI sites requires E5-class licensing, and locally installed AI apps are reached through a network data security path (Entra Global Secure Access or a SASE partner, partly in preview).

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Aona is not an EDR, a cloud posture tool or a SOC platform. It adds dedicated controls for employee AI use.
Aona secures employees' use of AI tools. It is not an LLM firewall, an AI-SPM tool or a red-teaming product for AI you build.
Aona has a SOC 2 Type II examination report. No FedRAMP, IRAP or ISO 27001 today.
Coverage needs the Aona plugin or endpoint app on the device. There is no agentless or network-only mode, so personal and unmanaged devices are out of scope.

Your questions

Wiz alternatives, answered.

Answers to help you build your shortlist.

What are the best Wiz alternatives in 2026?

If your goal is securing employee AI use rather than cloud posture, alternatives to Wiz are Aona AI, Harmonic Security, WitnessAI, Prompt Security and Microsoft Purview. Aona AI is built for securing employee AI use: it inspects the prompt and the upload on the device, in the browser and in ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude desktop apps, with hard block, layout-preserving file redaction and real-time coaching, and it starts with a self-serve 30-day trial. Wiz's control point is the cloud estate, hosted models, training data, AI-BOM and misconfiguration, which is where it stops for this use case.

Is Aona AI a real alternative to Wiz?

For securing employee AI use, yes. Wiz secures the AI you host in the cloud; Aona secures the AI your employees use on their devices. Aona's browser plugin and native endpoint app inspect the prompt at submit in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari and in ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude desktop apps, block hard with no user override, redact DOCX, XLSX and PDF uploads with the layout intact, coach the employee in real time, and export to Microsoft Sentinel via OCSF. They solve different problems, so run Wiz for the cloud and add Aona for the workforce. Aona is SOC 2 Type II certified, with a 30-day self-serve trial.

Where does Aona stop, compared with Wiz?

Scope, stated plainly: Aona is not an EDR, a cloud posture tool or a SOC platform. It adds dedicated controls for employee AI use. Aona secures employees' use of AI tools. It is not an LLM firewall, an AI-SPM tool or a red-teaming product for AI you build. Aona has a SOC 2 Type II examination report. No FedRAMP, IRAP or ISO 27001 today. Coverage needs the Aona plugin or endpoint app on the device. There is no agentless or network-only mode, so personal and unmanaged devices are out of scope. These lines are carried from our own Aona vs Wiz comparison, so you can evaluate with eyes open.

Is there a free trial to evaluate these alternatives?

Aona offers a 30-day self-serve free trial covering AI adoption analytics, shadow AI discovery, security and compliance monitoring and real-time employee coaching; IT deploys it with existing tooling and the first signal arrives within hours. Check the other vendors' sites for their current evaluation paths; WitnessAI, for example, offers a product tour rather than a self-serve trial, and Prompt Security is sold by demo through SentinelOne, as of September 2026.

How do I choose between these vendors?

Start with Aona for employee AI use: it governs the prompt and the upload on the device, in the browser and in native desktop AI apps, with hard block, file redaction and coaching, and it is live within hours. Keep Wiz for cloud posture, hosted-model security and AI-BOM across your cloud estate, and add Aona for the workforce. Wiz stops at the cloud boundary: it reads cloud configuration, workloads and hosted-model posture through cloud APIs and scanners, so a prompt typed into ChatGPT on an employee's laptop never enters its data model.

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