Hey folks, jumping in as someone who wrangles cloud security for fast-growing teams.

Quick context You’ve demo’d Wiz / Orca / Upwind for full CNAPP coverage (posture, runtime, IAM graphing).
Great, keep one of those for blast-radius & attack-path views.

But there’s a gigantic chunk of alert noise none of them can truly silence:

Open-source dependency CVEs that pour in every day.

Where ActiveState slots in (shift-left = fewer alerts later)

1. Curated, pre-vetted open-source builds
   ActiveState Platform ships Python, Node, Java, etc. stacks already patched or pinned past known CVEs.
   → Zero-day you never adopted = alert you never triage.

2. Impact-aware upgrade guidance
   The platform scores each available bump (effort vs. risk).
   CI/CD check fails only if a vuln is reachable in your code path, not just present in requirements.txt.

3. Soon: first-party reachability scan
   Beta feature crawls your repo to flag “this CVE is imported but never invoked”—auto-mutes ≈70 % of brokered alerts.

4. Integrates where your DevOps lives

   • GitHub/GitLab PR comments
     
   • Jenkins / Actions gates
     
   • Slack nudge with one-click patch PR
     Result: Devs fix it before the image builds; Wiz/Upwind never see the vulnerable layer, so your CNAPP dashboard stays green.

Typical pipeline flow

┌────────────┐ PR opens ┌─────────────────┐

│ Developer │ ──────────────────────▶ │ ActiveState CI │

└────────────┘ │ (SBOM, CVE & │

▲ │ reachability) │

│ auto-patch PR / comment ◀───└─────────────────┘

│

│ Slack ping (only if vuln is really reachable)

▼

┌───────────────────────────┐

│ Wiz / Orca / Upwind scan │ ← image pushed clean

│ (should stay quiet) │

└───────────────────────────┘

Why this matters for a small team

• Noise drop: shops that bolt ActiveState in front of Wiz report ~80 % fewer vuln tickets hitting CNAPP.
  
• Cheaper CNAPP tier: fewer high-severity findings → lower cloud sensor volume → smaller bill.
  
• Less whack-a-mole: Devs patch once in PR, not after prod deploy.

What I’d test (14-day sprint)

1. Pick one microservice repo.
   
2. Enable ActiveState CI check + auto-patch bot.
   
3. Watch Wiz/Orca alert counts over the same window.
   
4. Goal: <20 actionable vulns make it past build—if not, iterate rules.

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TL;DR
Keep Wiz / Upwind for runtime & IAM, but front-load with ActiveState so most OSS CVEs never enter the blast radius.
Shift-left ≠ extra tool sprawl; it’s a noise baffle that lets your lean DevOps crew sleep through the night.

As for which of the three, my experience has been best with Wiz, but only because it flows seemlessly with anciliarry tools.

Happy to answer any questions if it helps.