We built a free open source alternative to Wiz for Azure — here is how it works
OpenShield is a free, open-source Cloud Security Posture Management platform designed for Azure. It scans Azure subscriptions for misconfigurations and provides automated remediation playbooks for each finding. Developed by students and engineers, OpenShield aims to make cloud security accessible to organizations that cannot afford expensive enterprise tools.
- ▪OpenShield offers over 20 scan rules across six categories, including storage, network, identity, database, compute, and key vault.
- ▪Each finding is automatically mapped to compliance frameworks such as CIS Azure Benchmark and NIST CSF.
- ▪The platform includes a Flask REST API for accessing scan results and compliance scores.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/vishnu_ajith_98100c5d1c03/we-built-a-free-open-source-alternative-to-wiz-for-azure-here-is-how-it-works-49oo |
| Publication time | Sat, 16 May 2026 12:24:05 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-16T12:40:18.509Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-16T12:40:18.509Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | eKQBSmWcxwSj |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3934846) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Vishnu Ajith Posted on May 16 We built a free open source alternative to Wiz for Azure — here is how it works #security #azure #cloud #devsecops Enterprise cloud security tools like Wiz, Prisma Cloud, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud cost upwards of $500,000 per year. Most organisations running on Azure simply cannot afford them. So we built OpenShield — a free, open source Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) platform for Azure.
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