Wiz $32B Google Acquisition

The largest tech exit in Israeli history and Google's biggest corporate acquisition to date.

Google completed its historic $32 billion acquisition of the Israeli-founded cloud security firm Wiz.

The acquisition integrates ⁠Wiz into Google's Cloud division to strengthen its AI-powered cybersecurity platforms against competitors like AWS and Azure. Wiz remains an independent security brand within ⁠Google Cloud and will continue to operate on other platforms and from Israel.

Wiz is a cloud security platform that helps organizations secure their entire cloud infrastructure from code to production. [1, 2, 3]

How It Works

• Agentless Scanning: Connects to cloud environments via API without installing software.

• Full Stack Coverage: Scans virtual machines, containers, databases, and serverless functions.

• Graph-Based Analysis: Maps all cloud assets to visually uncover hidden connections. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Key Capabilities

• Vulnerability Management: Detects software flaws, misconfigurations, and leaked secrets.

• Risk Prioritization: Uses a "Security Graph" to highlight only critical, toxic combinations.

• Multi-Cloud Support: Secures Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud (GCP).

• Compliance Tracking: Automatically checks infrastructure against global regulatory standards.

Wiz Unique Features

Wiz enables organizations to secure cloud and AI applications at the speed they are built. The Wiz Security Platform connects code, cloud, and runtime into a single shared context, allowing customers to prevent risk early, harden environments by default, and protect applications continuously as they evolve.

By combining deep visibility across cloud environments with rich code and runtime context, Wiz gives security and engineering teams a unified understanding of how applications are built, deployed, and operated. This context allows organizations of all sizes – from startups to global enterprises and public sector institutions – to apply consistent guardrails, policies, and protections across the entire application lifecycle, without slowing innovation.

Wiz rapidly analyzes customer environments to build a real-time map of application architecture, permissions, data flows, and runtime behavior. Using this context, Wiz identifies exposure and exploitable attack paths, prioritizes risk based on business impact, and enables teams to fix issues at the source – often before applications ever reach production. Security and development teams can collaborate directly in code to remediate risk, while security operations teams use the same context to detect, investigate, and stop active attacks against critical cloud workloads.