Accelerate IRAP readiness with AWS and Wiz

This article explains how AWS and Wiz partnership accelerates IRAP (Information Security Registered Assessors Program) readiness for Australian Government organisations modernising to cloud.

• AWS provides IRAP-assessed infrastructure at Protected level, enabling agencies to inherit security baseline and focus on application layer
• Wiz identifies "toxic combinations" of risk indicators, quantifying cloud uncertainty and enabling faster risk decisions by Authorising Officers
• Agentless visibility into containers and serverless workloads detects vulnerabilities and permission misconfigurations before IRAP assessment failures
• Wiz integrates into CI/CD pipelines to enforce ISM-aligned guardrails, preventing noncompliant architectures from reaching production
• Automated evidence collection via AWS Security Hub and CloudTrail reduces manual compliance work by hundreds of hours per assessment
• Continuous assurance model aligns with global trends like US DoD Operation StormBreaker, reducing deployment timelines from 6-12 months to under 15 minutes

The partnership transforms security from a compliance barrier into competitive advantage, enabling Australian service providers to deliver secure Protected services with confidence.