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Wiz Officially Joins Google, Pledges to Keep Its Security Platform Multicloud

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Summary

Wiz says it has officially joined Google. It plans to accelerate its cloud and AI security platform while continuing to support customers across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.

Key points

  • Wiz announced that it has officially begun operating as a Google company, nearly a year after the companies shared plans for the deal.
  • Wiz says it will remain a multicloud platform, supporting workloads on AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.
  • The company says Google infrastructure, Mandiant threat intelligence and Google’s security ecosystem will support its security offerings.
  • Wiz highlighted recent research on vulnerabilities, exposed data and supply-chain attacks, as well as its ZeroDay.cloud hacking competition.
  • The company says it expanded its AI security platform, launched exposure-management capabilities and introduced WizOS hardened container base images.

Article Details

Event Type
Corporate acquisition completion: Wiz officially joined Google as a company.
Impact
Wiz says the combination with Google will accelerate its security platform roadmap while maintaining its multi-cloud focus. The article also describes Wiz's security research and product expansion, but reports no new breach or direct customer impact from the acquisition.

Vendors

GoogleNearly a year ago, we shared that Wiz would be joining Google. At the time, we spoke about a belief that by bringing together Wiz’s innovation and Google’s scale, we could meaningfully change what security looks like inWizNearly a year ago, we shared that Wiz would be joining Google. At the time, we spoke about a belief that by bringing together Wiz’s innovation and Google’s scale, we could meaningfully change what security looks like in

Products

AWSCodeBreach, a critical supply chain vulnerability that could have compromised the AWS Console.Azurelabs, as well as many of the world’s fastest-growing, cloud-native companies. Our customers run on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Our goal is to protect their entire environment – every workload, every application, everyGCPas well as many of the world’s fastest-growing, cloud-native companies. Our customers run on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Our goal is to protect their entire environment – every workload, every application, every majorGeminisecurity teams new superpowers. In the coming days, we’ll share more about how we’re already working with Gemini, and what the next phase of this partnership will unlock.Google CloudNow, 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’llOCIas many of the world’s fastest-growing, cloud-native companies. Our customers run on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Our goal is to protect their entire environment – every workload, every application, every major cloud.RedisRediShell, a 13-year-old critical RCE flaw in Redis (CVSS 10.0) that impacted over 75% of cloud environments.Wiz AI Security PlatformAs customers build and ship faster in the AI era, we expanded the Wiz AI Security Platform to secure AI applications themselves, providing visibility into AI usage, preventing AI-native risks, and protecting AIWiz Exposure ManagementWe introduced Wiz Exposure Management to give teams a single, proactive view of risk -- unifying vulnerability and attack surface management from code to cloud to on-prem, so they can focus on what truly matters andWizOSAnd to help developers start secure by default, we launched WizOS: hardened, near-zero-CVE container base images that give teams a trusted foundation from the very first commit.

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