Singapore – Google Cloud has finalised its acquisition of Wiz, integrating the cloud and AI security platform into its operations while retaining the Wiz brand. The move expands Google Cloud’s security portfolio and is intended to strengthen protection for organisations operating across cloud, hybrid, and multicloud environments.
The acquisition reflects increasing demand for cybersecurity solutions as organisations migrate critical applications and data to cloud infrastructure and expand the use of AI. These developments have introduced more complex security challenges, particularly as systems span multiple platforms and development cycles become faster and more automated.
At the same time, generative AI technologies are being widely deployed in enterprise operations, creating new risks as attackers also use AI tools to increase the scale and sophistication of cyber threats.
Following the transaction, Wiz will operate within Google Cloud, and its platform will continue to support deployments across major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
The company’s technology focuses on providing visibility across cloud environments by linking code, infrastructure and runtime activity, enabling security teams to identify vulnerabilities, assess potential attack paths and prioritise remediation.
In a LinkedIn post, Thomas Kurain, CEO of Google Cloud, shared, “Wiz enables organisations to secure cloud and AI applications by connecting code, cloud, and runtime into a single shared context, allowing customers to identify risks, harden environments, and protect applications continuously.”
He added, “Together, we will offer an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that combines Google’s Threat Intelligence and Security Operations with Wiz’s Cloud and AI Security Platform to detect, prevent, and respond to threats across all environments.”
Following the acquisition, Google Cloud plans to combine Wiz’s cloud security capabilities with its existing services, such as threat intelligence, security operations tools and incident response consulting from Mandiant. The integration is expected to support the development of a unified security platform designed to detect, prevent and respond to cyber threats across enterprise infrastructure, including AI systems and cloud-native applications.
Both companies indicated that the combined platform will incorporate AI technologies to assist with threat detection, investigation and remediation. The aim is to help organisations monitor increasingly complex environments, automate elements of security analysis and respond more quickly to emerging risks.
In a blog post published on Wiz, Assaf Rappaport, co-founder and CEO of Wiz, mentioned, “Now, as one team with Google Cloud, we have the opportunity to accelerate our roadmap in ways that simply weren’t possible before. By integrating the most cutting-edge AI capabilities into the Wiz platform, we’ll continue to give security teams new superpowers.”
He added, “Our mission remains as bold as ever: to protect everything organisations build and run. And we are still just getting started.”
Google Cloud emphasised that Wiz products will continue to be available across multiple cloud platforms and through partner ecosystems, including system integrators, resellers and managed security providers. The company also confirmed it will continue supporting industry standards, open-source software and integrations with other cloud security vendors offered through its marketplace.
The acquisition forms part of broader efforts by Google Cloud to expand its cybersecurity offerings as organisations adopt AI and multicloud computing, both of which have increased the complexity and scale of enterprise security operations.
