BMW chooses Wiz to strengthen cloud security.
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BMW chooses Wiz to strengthen cloud security. BMW is implementing the Wiz security platform to support its cloud security. The platform gives the car manufacturer visibility into thousands of cloud workloads. As a result, the number of critical security issues has dropped by 95 percent, while the number of cloud workloads doubled over the same period. BMW early recognized the potential of cloud technologies as a driving force behind innovation and speed. With the rise of electric vehicles and connected cars, the need for IT applications increased, with cloud playing a crucial role. However, the rapid adoption of cloud in a complex, global multi-cloud environment also brought risks. BMW needed centralized insight and transparency into the cloud environment to identify security risks and vulnerabilities in a timely manner. The cloud-native security tools used up to that point worked with different controls and rule sets. This meant the standardization and central overview that BMW needed was missing. At the same time, the company wanted to give internal teams as much freedom as possible to innovate, without extra friction or costs from intensive security controls. Log4j crisis accelerated full cloud transparency. During the evaluation of various solutions, Wiz's product roadmap stood out. During this phase, the global Log4j vulnerability broke out, requiring immediate...
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