Alma + Wiz: Unifying Cloud Posture with Runtime Application Reality
Oren Yaakobi
Integration Summary
Alma is the runtime standard for Application Detection and Response (ADR). Cloud Security Posture Management provides essential visibility into static infrastructure risks, but security teams also need visibility into application-layer attacks and data flows. This integration combines Wiz's deep infrastructure context with Alma's Layer 7 runtime behavioral profiling. By streaming Alma's real-time observation of application traffic into the Wiz platform, teams can correlate cloud risk insights with active threats, prioritizing remediation for services that are actively being targeted or leaking sensitive data.
The Challenge
Security teams struggle to correlate static infrastructure risks with dynamic application threats. They see thousands of vulnerabilities but cannot determine which services are facing active exploitation attempts or processing sensitive data in real-time. This disconnect leads to alert fatigue, while actual Layer 7 attacks on crown jewel applications go undetected by static controls.
Key Benefits
Prioritize remediation: Correlate Wiz risk findings with Alma's detection of active exploitation attempts to focus on threats with active exploitation and real-time business impact directly within the Wiz interface.
Accelerate incident response by streaming Alma's enriched runtime alerts into Wiz, leveraging cloud asset data for immediate infrastructure context.
Visualize data exposure by mapping Wiz data classification tags to Alma's real-time observation of sensitive data flows in motion.
Unify risk visibility by combining static posture insights from Wiz with dynamic Layer 7 application behavior from Alma for a comprehensive security story.
Better Together
Adopting Alma gives organizations deep visibility into how applications really behave, profiling service-to-service communication and detecting anomalies at Layer 7. By integrating Alma with Wiz, we bridge the gap between static cloud posture and dynamic runtime reality.
Mutual customers can now see Alma's evidence of active attacks and data exposure alongside Wiz's inventory of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This means a vulnerability identified by Wiz becomes an immediate priority when Alma injects a signal confirming malicious payloads are targeting it. Conversely, a behavioral anomaly detected by Alma is enriched with Wiz's cloud context, allowing the SOC to understand the full blast radius of an incident within their primary security platform.
Use Case: Detecting Business Logic Abuse and Data Exfiltration
The Challenge:
Attackers increasingly target application logic and authorized data paths rather than exploiting software vulnerabilities. These attacks, often involving valid credentials, bypass static scanners and WAFs, leaving critical data exposed to scraping and manipulation that looks like legitimate traffic.
The Solution:
Alma establishes a behavioral baseline for application traffic, detecting when usage patterns deviate from the norm, such as a user accessing sensitive records at an abnormal scale. By surfacing this runtime insight into Wiz's classification of "Crown Jewel" assets, security teams can instantly identify and block logic abuse targeting the organization's most critical data, covering the gap that static controls cannot see.
About Alma
Alma is the runtime standard for Application Detection and Response (ADR). Our mission is to secure applications by profiling their actual behavior. We sit inside traffic to detect active threats, vulnerabilities and data leaks that static tools miss. By combining Layer 7 visibility with business risk scoring and delivering enriched signals to platforms like Wiz, Alma helps teams detect and stop attacks without slowing down engineering.
For Alma X Wiz integration guide:
https://docs.alma-security.com/integrations/wiz
