Google agreed to acquire Wiz, Inc., a leading cloud security platform, for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction — its largest acquisition to date. The deal aims to enhance Google Cloud’s security offerings and bolster its multicloud capabilities in the AI era.
Wiz was founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak—all former members of Microsoft’s cloud security team. The company quickly established itself in the cybersecurity industry, achieving a valuation of $6 billion by October 2021 and $12 billion in May 2024. Wiz offers a unified cloud security platform that provides real-time visibility across cloud environments, enabling organizations to detect and mitigate risks effectively.
Wiz is a cloud-native security platform that provides agentless, full-stack visibility across public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Its core technology leverages direct API integrations with cloud providers to rapidly scan workloads, configurations, identities, networks, and secrets without the need to deploy agents on individual resources. The platform’s key differentiator is the Wiz Security Graph, a graph-based engine that maps relationships between assets, network paths, identity permissions, and configurations. This enables Wiz to detect and prioritize exploitable attack paths by correlating multiple layers of risk, such as exposed vulnerabilities linked to misconfigurations or overly permissive identities.
Wiz helps organizations focus on the most critical risks by applying contextual prioritization, reducing noise and alert fatigue for security teams. It integrates into CI/CD pipelines and popular SecOps tools, ensuring security throughout the software development lifecycle. Additionally, Wiz provides continuous compliance monitoring against regulatory frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks and SOC 2. Its agentless and scalable architecture allows rapid deployment and scanning of entire multi-cloud environments in hours, making it a widely adopted solution for enterprises looking to secure cloud-native applications and infrastructure at scale.
This acquisition aligns with Google’s strategy to strengthen its cloud security capabilities, building upon its previous significant acquisition of Mandiant in September 2022 for $5.4 billion. Mandiant is renowned for its expertise in threat intelligence and incident response services. Integrating Wiz’s innovative platform is expected to further enhance Google Cloud’s security offerings, providing customers with comprehensive protection across diverse cloud environments.
• Google to acquire Wiz for $32 billion in an all-cash deal.
• Wiz was founded in 2020 by former Microsoft cloud security team members.
• The company offers a unified cloud security platform with real-time visibility across cloud environments.
• Wiz achieved a $12 billion valuation in May 2024.
• The acquisition builds on Google’s previous $5.4 billion acquisition of Mandiant in 2022.
