The Next Chapter for Google & Wiz

Overview

On March 18, 2025, Wiz announced that they signed a deal to be acquired by Google, marking the largest-ever cybersecurity acquisition at $32B. The announcement generated a lot of attention, as is common with major acquisitions. However, this particular deal produced heightened interest due to the nature of the companies involved.

Wiz is a cloud security company dedicated to securing multicloud environments, and Google hosts one of those cloud platforms. Naturally, questions were raised around whether Wiz would continue to secure platforms beyond Google Cloud, but that worry does not seem to hold any ground. Even from the first press release, Wiz and Google made their intentions clear: "We both also believe Wiz needs to remain a multicloud platform, so that across any cloud, we will continue to be a leading platform. We will still work closely with our great partners at AWS, Azure, Oracle, and across the entire industry."

Almost exactly one year later, the deal has closed; the companies' merger is official, and the same multi-cloud sentiment has remained. In fact, Google also stated that it will continue to partner with other cloud security providers, keeping those solutions available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, allowing customers to choose their preferred solutions. 

What will change?

The industry has had a whole year to speculate on what will happen once the deal is formally closed. While nothing will change right away, we will surely see some changes due to this acquisition. The combination of these two technology powerhouses has great potential for growth and innovation. At this time, we only know generalizations on where the platform may go. Below are the areas that both Wiz and Google have highlighted the most.

AI Innovation

The technology industry is no stranger to AI advancements – these technologies are constantly accelerating, and we need to be able to secure them at the same rate, or preferably, quicker. Wiz has been investing heavily in AI security, both to secure AI infrastructure and to leverage AI to enhance its platform and security. 

Wiz can perform the following AI-related capabilities:

• Discovering AI infrastructure, such as AI models, tools, agents, MCP servers, NHIs, data, and more.
• Identifying misconfigurations, missing guardrails, access controls, and actual usage of AI services.
• Detecting and preventing AI-native risks, real-time threats associated with AI workloads in runtime.
• Deploying AI agents within the Wiz platform to help teams investigate, prioritize and remediate risk, using Wiz's deep context across code, cloud and runtime.

Google is a leader in the AI space, as reflected by their generative AI model, Google Gemini, Vertex AI for enterprise model building, and AI-powered security platforms including Google Threat Intelligence and Google Security Operations.

The Opportunity: Merging not only the platforms that power these technologies, but the thought leadership behind them can only result in something new and impressive. While the world only continues to boast about AI more and more, Wiz and Google will be able to capitalize on the movement and create a unified platform that is secure, high-velocity and cutting-edge.

Threat Intelligence 

In cybersecurity, threat intelligence is always valued, but when it is tailored to specific environments and business priorities, it can be game changing. This is why Wiz developed Wiz Research, an arm of cybersecurity experts dedicated to identifying and investigating critical vulnerabilities across major cloud and cloud-adjacent platforms. They have uncovered high-profile risks – such as exposed databases leaking sensitive information and critical supply chain vulnerabilities. While Wiz Research insights are publicly available, the platform's Threat Center enriches this data, and other global threat feeds, with real, actionable context on what workloads in your infrastructure are affected or have the potential to be affected, alongside the specific remediation steps to secure your environment. 

In 2022, Google acquired Mandiant, which was a threat intelligence and incident response firm, and has now evolved into Google's main security research and intelligence engine, integrated into their security stack. They also still act as an incident response firm with a consulting arm that provides human-led services for strategic guidance on building controls and incident recovery.

The Opportunity: Both companies are on the right path in threat intelligence, but the combination means technical expertise broadens across domains; traditional security, cloud security, cloud infrastructure, incident response, etc. It also means customers will have access to Wiz's context-driven platform and Mandiant's human-driven consulting arm from the same provider. Now more than ever, threat intelligence is extremely important. Attackers have access to the same AI technologies as the rest of us and are using it to perform unparalleled attacks at an impressive rate.

Security Operations

Security Operations is an area both companies have recently invested heavily in. Not only are they operationalizing their research and intelligence, but they are also putting out solutions that dynamically detect active threats.

Wiz Defend is a Cloud Detection and Response solution that gains visibility into real-time actions on the workload, then identifies threats resulting from known-bad processes or deviations from a behavioral baseline. Wiz has evolved past agentless discovery and a focus on high-level visibility to deep inspection of actual processes within cloud workloads. This is an essential shift, as cloud workloads need the same detection capabilities as traditional servers and endpoints do.

Google Security Operations is a cloud-native SIEM/SOAR solution that leverages Mandiant threat intelligence and Agentic AI to enhance investigations. This platform enables customers to aggregate security telemetry and execute response actions as needed. By storing data in a centralized data lake, Google Security Operations enables the identification of trends and actionable insights drawn from years of log ingestion. As a result, organizations benefit from improved prioritization, advanced detection capabilities, and enhanced intelligence insights.

The Opportunity: Google has already stated in last week's press release that we will see a unified platform that hosts both of these solutions within the same ecosystem. This will allow customers to view a fully aggregated platform that includes posture, detection, response, and intelligence, providing deeper context and better prioritization.

The Path Ahead

The mission is still the same, but the breadth of abilities will expand. Wiz and Google are both great examples of innovators and market disruptors, known for reimagining their respective domains. It will be exciting to see how they become better together.  

The following quote from Assaf Rappaport, Co-Founder and CEO of Wiz, best encapsulates the path forward for these two companies:

There are still many questions left unanswered, and we will not know what to fully expect until some of these changes come to fruition, but there is a great opportunity that can come from this acquisition.