CNAPPs do a solid job surfacing potential risk, but they also drown teams in it. Every day, security teams are hit with wave after wave of findings, most tagged “Critical” or “High.” But the reality? Only a fraction are worth worrying about. The rest just eat up time, attention, and trust. As security teams slog through slow triage, actual threats get missed.
Skyhawk Security's new
integration with Wiz cuts through that. It doesn’t try to flag everything that might go wrong. It shows what will go wrong, by simulating real attacker behavior and validating vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable. What teams get is a shorter list, backed by evidence, and worth acting on.
Behind the 99% Reduction in CNAPP Noise
Skyhawk says customers are seeing up to a 99% reduction in CNAPP alert noise. That’s a massive drop. So what’s going on behind the scenes?
“We're seeing a 99% reduction in alert noise reported by customers, and that’s not just a marketing stat,” said
Chen Burshan, CEO of Skyhawk Security told MSSP Alert. “These are real outcomes backed by evidence. Our Autonomous Purple Team runs Adversary Intelligent simulations to validate the true weaponized impact of a finding or toxic combination. That’s fundamentally different from how Wiz scores risk.”
Wiz uses a graph-based approach to calculate and prioritize risk, connecting vulnerabilities to exposed assets and misconfigurations. But Skyhawk’s view is that attackers don’t follow graphs - they exploit systems using real-world tactics, often manipulating gaps in coverage that graph models miss.
“Adversaries don’t have graph data,” Burshan explained. “They use techniques that manipulate what’s represented on the graph. What we’re doing with adversary simulation is closer to how threats actually unfold. The details of how we do it - that’s our secret sauce.”
That simulation layer gives Skyhawk an edge. It can flag not just which vulnerabilities are technically dangerous, but which ones are actively exploitable in a given environment. It can also identify where existing controls are already effective, cutting down on duplicate efforts and false positives.
A Smarter Way for Security and App Teams to Work Together
One of the biggest side effects of alert overload is tension between security and application teams. Security throws over tickets. Application teams push back. Nobody’s happy, and progress stalls.
“First and foremost, we're told there’s less friction between security and application teams,” Burshan said. “Most app teams are focused on delivering what makes money for the business. When you hit them with false positives, you waste time and hurt speed-to-market. Our purple team helps reduce those noise-driven asks. And when the security team does escalate something, they’re doing it with evidence in hand.”
That shift - fewer, better-justified asks - translates into faster remediation cycles, fewer tickets, and more credibility across teams. Security teams spend less time fighting fires. Application teams aren’t derailed by unnecessary work. Everyone moves faster with more confidence.
It’s Not Just Fewer Alerts. It’s Smarter Security.
The integration is already showing measurable impact. One customer took 500,000 critical and high-severity findings and narrowed them down to a handful of confirmed threats. Another collapsed 60,000 alerts into a single validated issue. These aren’t edge cases - they’re the kind of results that happen when validation is baked into the detection process from the start.
Skyhawk’s approach doesn’t just clean up alert volume. It gives teams better footing to prioritize the vulnerabilities that matter, verify where controls are already doing their job, and stop wasting cycles on noise. That’s a meaningful shift - especially for lean teams trying to scale security across sprawling cloud infrastructure.
Partnering with Scytale to Help Companies Prove SOC 2 Readiness in the Cloud
Skyhawk Security is also partnering with
Scytale to simplify SOC 2 audits for cloud-native companies. The partnership integrates Scytale’s compliance automation platform with Skyhawk’s AI-driven Purple Team Assessment, offering Scytale customers a free, one-time evaluation of their cloud environment’s real-world risk exposure.
Instead of relying solely on static documentation or self-reported controls, the assessment simulates actual attack scenarios inside a digital twin of the customer’s cloud setup. It evaluates how well security controls perform across AWS, Azure, and GCP - focusing on how systems harden, detect, and respond to likely threats.
The result is a detailed, auditor-ready report that surfaces real gaps, confirms what’s working, and helps companies prioritize fixes based on actual risk. For organizations chasing SOC 2 certification, this cuts through the noise of hypothetical vulnerabilities and offers tangible evidence of operational security.
No installation is needed, and most assessments are done in a few hours - making it a lightweight but high-impact step for companies preparing for an audit or looking to strengthen their security posture without overloading security or DevOps teams.
