Wiz is a cloud security platform (CNAPP) with AI-SPM for discovering AI services in your cloud infrastructure. Aona is a full AI governance and agent security platform. Here is how they compare.
See how Aona compares →Wiz secures your cloud. Aona governs your AI. Different layers, different problems.
Wiz is a cloud-native application protection platform that provides full-stack cloud security — vulnerability management, misconfigurations, container security, and compliance. Its AI-SPM module discovers AI services running in your cloud accounts at the infrastructure level.
Aona covers the full enterprise AI security surface: governing how employees use AI tools, securing AI agents through Red and Blue Team automated testing, and helping teams build compliant agents. Detection plus automated remediation.
Cloud security vs AI governance — side by side.
| Feature | Aona AI | Wiz |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud security posture management (CSPM) | ||
| AI service discovery (infrastructure) | ||
| Vulnerability management | ||
| Container / Kubernetes security | ||
| Shadow AI discovery (employee-level) | ||
| Acceptable use policy enforcement | ||
| AI agent security testing (Red Team) | ||
| AI agent security testing (Blue Team) | ||
| Automated remediation | ||
| Build compliant AI agents | ||
| EU AI Act / ISO 42001 compliance | ||
| AI usage audit trail | ||
| Cloud deployment | ||
| On-premises deployment |
Wiz is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that provides agentless, full-stack security for cloud environments. It connects to your cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, GCP) and scans your entire cloud estate for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, network exposures, secrets, and compliance issues — all without deploying agents.
Wiz's AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) module extends this visibility to AI services. It discovers AI models, training pipelines, and AI-related cloud services running in your infrastructure — helping security teams understand their AI attack surface at the cloud layer.
The platform excels at cloud security: vulnerability prioritisation, container and Kubernetes security, IaC scanning, and cloud compliance frameworks. It is widely adopted by security teams managing large, complex cloud environments.
What Wiz does not cover: governance of how employees use external AI tools, AI agent security testing (Red/Blue Team), acceptable use policy enforcement, automated remediation of AI policy violations, or compliance reporting for AI-specific regulations like the EU AI Act or ISO 42001.
Aona is a full AI security platform built to cover three distinct layers of enterprise AI risk — each of which Wiz does not address.
Aona discovers every AI tool in use across your organisation — sanctioned and unsanctioned — and surfaces Shadow AI risk before it becomes a security incident or compliance failure. It enforces acceptable use policies, blocks sensitive data from being shared with unapproved AI tools, and coaches employees in real time on safe AI usage. See more on the AI governance page.
As enterprises deploy AI agents and agentic workflows, the attack surface expands beyond cloud infrastructure. Aona provides automated Red Team testing — simulating adversarial attacks against your agents — and Blue Team monitoring to detect anomalous agent behaviour in production. When issues are found, Aona's automated remediation responds without waiting for a human analyst. Learn more on the AI security page.
Aona helps development teams build AI agents that meet regulatory requirements from the start — with policy guardrails, compliance controls, and audit trails built into the development workflow, not bolted on after deployment.
Wiz is fundamentally a cloud infrastructure security platform. It sees your cloud estate — VMs, containers, serverless functions, and now AI services — through the lens of infrastructure security. AI-SPM extends this to AI workloads, but the perspective remains infrastructure-level.
Aona is an AI governance platform. It sees AI through the lens of employee usage, agent behaviour, and regulatory compliance. If your question is “what AI services are running in my cloud?”, Wiz answers that. If your question is “what AI tools are my employees using and are our AI agents secure?”, Aona answers that.
Wiz AI-SPM discovers AI services at the infrastructure level — models deployed on your cloud accounts, training pipelines, AI-related cloud resources. This is valuable but limited to AI that runs on your infrastructure.
Aona discovers AI at the employee level — which SaaS AI tools people are using (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot), what data they are sharing, and whether those tools are sanctioned. This is Shadow AI that Wiz cannot see because it does not run on your cloud infrastructure.
Wiz can identify AI services in your cloud and flag misconfigurations or vulnerabilities in the infrastructure they run on. But it does not test the AI agents themselves — no adversarial simulation, no behavioural analysis, no Red Team exercises.
Aona's agent security module is purpose-built for this. It simulates adversarial attacks against your AI agents before deployment and continuously monitors agent behaviour in production — catching issues that infrastructure scanning cannot detect.
Wiz maps to cloud security compliance frameworks — SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, CIS benchmarks, and similar standards focused on infrastructure security. These are important but not AI-specific.
Aona maps to AI-specific regulations — EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF. For CISOs building an AI governance programme that satisfies regulators, Aona provides the AI-specific audit trails and compliance reporting that cloud security tools do not offer.
What is the difference between Aona and Wiz?
+Does Wiz cover Shadow AI governance?
+Can Wiz test AI agents for security vulnerabilities?
+Should I use Aona or Wiz for EU AI Act compliance?
+Can Aona and Wiz be used together?
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