"Google announced its intention to acquire Wiz in March of this year in an all-cash deal at the aforementioned $32 billion price point with plans to fold the biz into Google Cloud after the acquisition is complete. Google noted in a separate announcement that Wiz's flagship offering - a unified cloud security platform that puts "all major clouds and code environments" behind a single dashboard - is different from the cloud security services the company currently offers, making the acquisition a natural fit."
"Wiz uses an API to connect to customer cloud environments, allowing it to perform a full-stack inventory that accounts for everything from cloud architecture to serverless functions to containers, buckets, and other resources. Users can query relationships between different scanned elements to see how various assets connect and how a breach in one space can impact other systems, and matches scans up to a threat intelligence database to inform customers what sort of risks their various interconnected cloud services expose their businesses to."
The Department of Justice approved Google's $32 billion acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz following an antitrust investigation. The deal ranks as Google's largest-ever acquisition and is intended to integrate Wiz into Google Cloud. Wiz offers a unified cloud security platform that consolidates major cloud providers and code environments under a single dashboard. The platform connects to customer cloud environments via an API, performs a full-stack inventory across architecture, serverless functions, containers, and storage, and maps relationships among assets to reveal cross-system risk. Wiz also matches findings to a threat intelligence database, augmenting existing cloud security capabilities.
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