Wiz, the cloud security platform that rapidly enables clients to find and remove critical cloud risks, announced the availability of its first Australian data centre in Sydney, NSW. With this data centre, Aussie firms can enjoy the same benefits of Wiz, while being assured their data is housed and protected in Australia, meeting data sovereignty and privacy requirements.
What does the data centre mean for its Aussie clients?
The data centre is built on the same scalable architectural design of Wiz’s infrastructure, enabling new features to become available to Australian customers on a global schedule.
The investment in an Australian data centre shows Wiz’s commitment to the Australian market, as it looks to build its rapidly growing customer portfolio, which includes brands such as Linktree, OFX and TechnologyOne. In addition, Wiz is supporting the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight Security Guidelines model as a supported framework.
Firms can use the Essential Eight benchmarking capabilities along with existing support for common industry benchmarks such as CIS Controls, ISO 27001, SOC2 to automatically understand their compliance posture and to focus their teams on where to improve.
This investment displays the company’s commitment to the Australian market—which has seen exponential growth in the past year—as it aims to ensure customers have enough local support and resources required to effectively implement and achieve value with Wiz.
What were the stakeholders’ thoughts on the data centre?
“TechnologyOne has partnered with Wiz to enhance our cyber security posture and reinforce our client commitment to be the most trusted SaaS Platform. We’re delighted to see Wiz’s investment in Australia with the Sydney data centre and support of the Essential Eight controls,” said Daniel Sultana, Executive Vice President – SaaS Platform at TechnologyOne.
“The new Sydney data centre gives us further confidence in Wiz’s commitment to customers in the Australia region. We trust Wiz to help us secure our growing diverse cloud footprint, and this investment will accelerate our adoption of Wiz,” said Santanu Lodh, CISO at OFX.
“The Aussie market continues to be a critically important region for Wiz as the pace of innovation and cloud adoption is one of the fastest around the world. We will continue to invest heavily in the region and be a strategic cloud security partner for local clients seeking to securely accelerate their cloud journeys,” said Assaf Rappaport, Co-founder & CEO at Wiz.
