Google completes $32B acquisition of Wiz

Google said connected Wednesday that it has acquired Israeli cybersecurity steadfast Wiz for $32 cardinal successful cash, a afloat twelvemonth aft the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition successful its history.

Wiz, which provides a information level that helps large unreality environments forestall and respond to cybersecurity threats, volition articulation Google Cloud, but volition support its marque “and committedness to securing customers crossed each unreality environments,” Google said.

“This acquisition is an concern by Google Cloud to amended unreality information and alteration organizations to physique accelerated and securely crossed immoderate unreality oregon AI platform,” the hunt elephantine said successful a statement.

Google initially approached Wiz successful 2024 with an connection to bargain the startup for $23 billion, but Wiz walked distant from that offer. Its CEO Assaf Rappaport said astatine the clip that helium felt the concern could turn to beryllium a batch bigger than that.

The companies revived talks aboriginal successful 2025, and Google past March reached an statement to buy the Israeli company.

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