Welcoming Wiz to Google Cloud: Redefining security for the AI era
I am proud to announce today that Google has completed its acquisition of Wiz, a leading cloud and AI security platform. The Wiz team will join Google Cloud, and we will retain the Wiz brand.
With the addition of Wiz, we will provide customers with a comprehensive platform to secure their cloud and hybrid environments, as well as accelerate threat prevention, detection, and response. By doing so, we’re empowering our customers and partners to enhance security for their enterprise systems while lowering the cost of maintaining security controls across their on-premises and multicloud environments. We have always believed that security is an enterprise-wide problem, and customers can use our solutions to work across all the clouds they adopt — we remain committed to doing so, including continuing to have Wiz support multiple clouds.
Cybersecurity landscape in the AI era: The rise of multicloud and generative AI
Companies across industries are moving their business-critical applications, data, and systems to the cloud, often resulting in environments that span multiple clouds and include a combination of cloud, virtual and on-premises systems. In addition, software development has become agile and continuous, creating a faster-moving attack surface.
As software is increasingly AI generated, a growing number of adversaries are targeting these systems — and using AI to increase the speed and sophistication of their attacks — thereby putting companies’ integrity at risk.
At the same time, organizations are accelerating their adoption of generative AI models, agents, and tools to streamline core business processes. To create these AI agents, they are increasingly feeding them with business critical data as enterprise context for reasoning. This shift introduces exposure to a new set of threats, many of which are now being created by and targeting AI models themselves.
To effectively manage this complexity and keep cloud assets secure, cybersecurity professionals need more powerful and sophisticated platforms to prevent and detect cyber threats that are growing in both frequency and impact. Crucially, these must include AI-powered cybersecurity solutions that integrate development and security operations across hybrid and multi-cloud environments to effectively prevent, detect, and respond to threats directed at or involving AI models.
Google Cloud’s security leadership
Google Cloud’s deep-seated security expertise includes AI-powered threat intelligence and security operations tools, as well as industry leading cybersecurity consulting. With Google as part of your security teams, customers can detect and respond to attackers faster and more effectively. Our security portfolio includes:
* Google Threat Intelligence: Delivers detailed, timely, and actionable threat intelligence to help security teams understand threats and determine the best response.
* Google Security Operations: Enables customers to collect security telemetry, apply intelligence to identify high-priority threats, and drive effective response with playbook automation, case management, and collaboration.
* Mandiant Consulting: Provides frontline expertise and a deep understanding of global attacker behavior. Our team is the first call for organizations facing the world’s largest breaches, helping them prepare for and respond to cyber events.
All of these capabilities are available today through Google Unified Security, an open, context-aware security platform. Designed to deliver integrated, intelligence-driven, and AI-infused security workflows, Google Unified Security brings together the best of Google to empower organizations to proactively defend against today’s most sophisticated threats at the speed and scale of Google, across cloud, on-premises and browser environments. We have enhanced Google Unified Security with Gemini, our leading AI model, to help prioritize threats in our threat intelligence product and to help cybersecurity professionals accelerate threat hunting, generate remediation workflows, and prepare audit documentation in Google Security Operations.
Our extensive history of AI-driven innovation will empower Wiz to further innovate at speed, while our robust infrastructure will provide the scale necessary to protect more global organizations more effectively.
How Wiz strengthens Google Cloud’s security offerings
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.
Over the past 12 months, Wiz has significantly expanded its platform to address the security challenges of the AI era. This includes new AI security capabilities that give organizations visibility into AI applications and usage, prevent AI-native risks, and protect AI workloads at runtime, alongside expanded exposure management and AI-powered security agents. Together, these capabilities help teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster and with greater precision. These innovations enable Wiz to validate risk, accelerate remediation, and improve security outcomes at scale. In partnership with Google Cloud, and leveraging advanced AI technologies such as Gemini, Wiz will continue to strengthen its ability to help customers secure modern cloud and AI environments.
For customers and partners: What to expect
Google Cloud and Wiz share a vision to improve security by making it easier and faster for organizations of all types and sizes to protect themselves, end-to-end, across all major clouds and hybrid environments. Wiz is already a strategic Google Cloud partner, including serving as an inaugural partner of the Google Unified Security Recommended partner program. With this acquisition, Google Cloud and Wiz will help accelerate the adoption of multicloud cybersecurity, the use of multicloud environments, and drive innovation and growth in cloud computing.
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. Security teams can detect emerging cybersecurity threats created using AI models, protect against threats to AI models, and leverage AI models to accelerate threat hunting and threat response.
Customers can create a stronger security foundation and stay ahead of the curve with the following key benefits:
* Unified security platform: A next-generation security platform combining the Wiz Cloud Security Platform with Google Security Operations to secure cloud-native applications at every stage – development, build, and runtime.
* Threat intelligence: Precise, actionable threat intelligence that provides security teams with unmatched visibility into their own systems, through the eyes of the adversary.
* New threat protection: Proactive defenses against an evolving threat landscape, including new attacks created by AI and those targeting AI systems.
* Dual approach: Empowerment of cybersecurity and cloud professionals through a combination of cutting-edge technology, such as new AI agents that act as an extension of their teams, and the frontline expertise of Mandiant Consulting.
* Measurable defense: Ability to proactively measure defense effectiveness by testing and validating security controls while expanding critical capabilities in defense, strategic readiness, and incident response.
These advancements will help minimize toil and boost productivity, allowing security professionals to detect and respond to threats and build AI applications with greater speed and confidence. The combined platform will also help protect small businesses which often do not have the expertise and resources to protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated and destructive cyberthreats.
Wiz products will continue to work and be available across major clouds, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Platform, and will be offered through an array of partner solutions. In addition, we are committed to continuing to support packaged applications, SaaS applications, and workloads running on virtual and on-premises environments.
Google Cloud will continue to partner with other leading cloud security providers in our Marketplace to offer customers choice. We will enable system integrators, resellers, and managed security service providers to offer broader solutions and services to our customers, as well as provide new integration opportunities for our technical partners. We maintain our full, longstanding commitment to industry standards and the open source community.
Comments on the news
* "Complexity is the primary challenge in the cloud today, and Google is addressing the need for a simplified 'code-to-cloud' security strategy that works across any environment. By integrating Wiz’s proactive multicloud visibility and risk assessment with its own AI-driven operations, Google is positioned to deliver a unified, predictive defense customers need, raising the bar in a critical market.” – Phil Bues, senior research manager, Cloud Security, IDC.
* “As a strategic alliance of both Wiz and Google Cloud, we are excited about the benefits this combination can provide for global organizations as they scale AI solutions and navigate increasingly complex and evolving cybersecurity threats.” – Jason Girzadas, CEO, Deloitte U.S.
We are thrilled to welcome the Wiz team to Google Cloud, and we look forward to building a more secure digital future together. For more information, please read our joint press release and the Wiz blog. 🔗 Google Security
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