Google’s $32B Wiz Acquisition Sparks Cybersecurity Revolution, Experts Deliberate

Deal at a glance

• The deal: Google agreed on March 18, 2025, to buy cloud security company Wiz for $32 billion in cash, its largest acquisition ever.
• The goal: Give Google Cloud a stronger security product as it competes with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
• Multicloud promise: Google said Wiz products will keep working on rival clouds.
• Still pending: The purchase needs regulatory approval before it can close.

Google’s biggest purchase yet

Google announced the agreement to acquire Wiz, a New York-based cloud security firm founded in 2020, for $32 billion. Wiz will join Google Cloud once the deal closes. The price is far above the $23 billion offer Wiz turned down in 2024.

Wiz sells software that scans cloud accounts for misconfigurations, exposed secrets and vulnerable workloads, and shows security teams which risks matter most. That approach made it one of the fastest-growing security startups of the last few years.

Why Google wanted Wiz

Google Cloud is third behind AWS and Azure. Security is one area where it thinks it can win customers.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said: “Together, Google Cloud and Wiz will turbocharge improved cloud security and the ability to use multiple clouds.” Google has said Wiz will stay available on AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud, which matters to the many Wiz customers who do not run on Google at all. Pairing Wiz with Google’s existing Mandiant and Security Operations products gives it a broader offer for large companies.

Rivals and regulators

Microsoft and Amazon both sell their own cloud security tools, and the deal adds pressure on standalone vendors such as Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike. Antitrust review in the U.S. and elsewhere is the main hurdle before closing.

An earlier version of this article quoted an analyst identified as Rebecca Linn. We could not confirm the quote, so it has been removed.

What Wiz brings

Wiz built its name on agentless scanning: it connects to a cloud account through APIs and maps assets and risks without installing software on each workload.

Google plans to fold those capabilities into Google Cloud while keeping the product multicloud.

What to watch next

The main open question is timing. Closing depends on regulators, and Google expected that to take until 2026.

Wiz customers on other clouds should watch for changes to roadmap, pricing or support terms once the deal closes. So far Google has said the product stays multicloud.

For the security market, $32 billion sets a new price for cloud security companies and may push other large vendors to buy rather than build.

Fred Templeton, CISA, CASP, SEC+

Fred Templeton is a practicing Information Systems Auditor in the Washington DC area. Fred works as a government contractor and uses his skills in cyber security to make our country's information systems safer from cyber threats. Fred holds a master's degree in cybersecurity and is currently working on his PHD in Information Systems.