CSPM that knows what your hosts actually do.
Wiz is a strong agentless CSPM. Tessarac is a comparable CSPM correlated with live agent telemetry — the difference matters when you're trying to act on a finding without breaking workloads. Plus the rest of your security platform: identity, secrets, PAM, EDR, AI-SOC.
Why agent + agentless beats agentless alone
A finding plus a behavioral baseline is actionable. A finding alone is a ticket.
An agentless CSPM tells you 'security group allows port 9200.' That's a finding. The same finding with agent telemetry attached tells you 'security group allows port 9200, and no host has used it for 30 days.' That's an actionable lockdown recommendation. Tessarac correlates both because Sentinel is in the same platform.
- Continuous agentless cloud-API scanning across every major cloud
- Cross-source correlation — cloud state + Sentinel agent telemetry + audit log — surfaces lockdown recommendations the agentless-only vendor can't
- IPv6 readiness rules built into the rule registry — flags dual-stack-incapable networks against M-21-07
- Native ingest from every major cloud's posture / threat-detection / security-findings service
- Cost anomaly detection with IAM principal attribution
Side-by-side: Tessarac vs. Wiz
Honest assessment as of May 2026. Where Wiz ships an equivalent capability we say so; where they don't we say so. Notes carry the source.
Cloud security posture
| Feature | Tessarac | Wiz |
|---|---|---|
Agentless CSPM scanning (every major cloud) | Yes | Yes |
Native ingest from every major cloud's security-findings service | Yes | Yes |
Drift detection vs. your IaC state | Yes | Yes |
IPv6 readiness rules (OMB M-21-07) | Yes | Partial |
Ephemeral sandbox detonation in tenant region | Yes | Partial |
Where the agent matters
| Feature | Tessarac | Wiz |
|---|---|---|
Cross-source correlation (cloud + agent + audit) | Yes | No |
Lockdown recommendations confirmed by behavioral baseline | Yes | No |
EDR + cordon on the same agent | Yes | No |
Hardware-bound workload identity (TPM / Secure Enclave) | Yes | No |
What Wiz doesn't sell
| Feature | Tessarac | Wiz |
|---|---|---|
Workforce + Customer SSO (IdP) | Yes | No |
Secrets vault + internal CA | Yes | No |
Privileged access (SSH / RDP / DB brokering) | Yes | No |
API-key management plane | Yes | No |
Operator surface
| Feature | Tessarac | Wiz |
|---|---|---|
Customer-visible per-tenant audit | Yes | Partial |
Audit export to BYO destination | Yes | Partial |
Customer opt-out of vendor retention | Yes | No |
Air-gapped install | Yes | No |
Open source (community edition) | Yes | No |
FedRAMP High path | Yes | Partial |
DoD IL5 path | Yes | No |
One bill for everything above | Yes | No |
The total-platform story
Wiz is one product. Tessarac is the platform Wiz fits inside.
Wiz is a great agentless CSPM and the public reference for the category. Tessarac is the rest of the security platform that consumes those CSPM signals — and we ship the CSPM ourselves so you only pay for one platform. If you're already on Wiz, Tessarac integrates with it (we ingest Wiz findings); if you're greenfield, you can skip the standalone CSPM contract.
- Wiz integration — Tessarac ingests Wiz findings and attaches them to its own per-tenant audit + AI-SOC pipeline
- Tessarac's own CSPM is comparable in coverage and adds the agent-correlation that Wiz can't
- FedRAMP High and IL5 paths — Tessarac deploys in our sovereign US-only environment with the rest of the platform; Wiz federal availability is more limited
- One bill for CSPM + IdP + Secrets + PAM + EDR + API-keys + AI-SOC
See your cloud the way an attacker would — across the whole stack
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