Google has completed its $32 billion cash acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz, a year after the deal was first announced, making it the largest acquisition in Google’s history.
Wiz offers a security platform that safeguards major cloud environments by detecting and responding to cyber threats.
Although it will become part of Google Cloud, Wiz will retain its brand and continue securing customers across all cloud platforms, the company stated.
“This acquisition is an investment by Google Cloud to improve cloud security and enable organizations to build fast and securely across any cloud or AI platform,” Google stated.
With more large organizations operating across multiple clouds, including Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud, bringing Wiz on board positions Google to attract more enterprise clients through a robust multi-cloud security platform.
Google and Wiz plan to create a “unified security platform” that enables organizations to address threats more swiftly, critical as vibe coding has increased security vulnerabilities and prompt-based attacks grow more common.
Wiz employs AI to strengthen threat detection and investigation across all layers of cloud environments, from code and infrastructure to runtime.
