Today, Google announced an agreement to acquire Wiz. This move enables businesses and governments to enhance their security by using Wiz’s capabilities through Google Cloud. We aim to deliver a comprehensive security platform that addresses current IT challenges and empowers our customers to better protect their operations.
To help clarify this announcement, we would like to answer some common questions about the acquisition.
Why now?
Cybersecurity risks are rising with more frequent and severe breaches. Other Mandiant consultants encounter these issues with customers daily.
As organizations turn to digital solutions, most now rely on multi-cloud or hybrid setups, which are hard to manage. At the same time, software and AI are assuming greater roles in operation threats, creating new risks for businesses and the public sector.
Traditional cybersecurity struggles to keep up; organizations now need solutions for multiple cloud, hybrid, and on-premises setups. They also need protection against AI , ways to use AI defensively, and security integrated into development.
Having explained why this acquisition is timely, let’s consider our current security offerings.
We provide SaaS threat detection, response, and cybersecurity consulting closely integrated with security teams. Our products include:
- Google Threat Intelligence provides security teams with up-to-date, actionable threat information, helping them understand and respond quickly.
- Google Security Operations centralizes security data collection, applies threat intelligence to prioritize risks, and uses automated tools to enable efficient responses.
- Mandiant Consulting provides frontline expertise and insight into global attacker behavior. Our team helps organizations prepare for and respond to major cyber incidents. Our integrated cloud security platform connects to all major clouds and code amendments to help prevent incidents. Wiz’s solution quickly scans environments, mapping code, cloud resources, services, and applications, including their connections. It identifies potential attack paths, highlights serious risks, and helps developers secure applications before launching. It also fosters collaboration between security and development teams to address core risks or stop active attacks.
Wiz scans the customer’s environment to map connections between code, cloud resources, services, and applications. It identifies critical attack paths, highlights major risks, and helps developers secure applications before launching. Wiz also enables real-time collaboration between security and development teams to manage risks and block attacks.
Let’s Look at How Wiz and Google Cloud Will Work Better Together
Wiz and Google Cloud both focus on making security more accessible and effective for organizations of any size across all cloud environments. Google Cloud provides advanced cloud infrastructure and AI, built on a foundation of security innovation. Collaborating with Wiz will enable us to deliver improved security solutions and help organizations quickly and efficiently enhance their protection.
This will spur adoption of multi-cloud cybersecurity. This partnership will encourage more organizations to adopt multi-cloud, accelerate its use, and support competition and growth in cloud computing. Together, we can help customers build a strong cloud security foundation with a portfolio that meets tomorrow’s needs, including:
- Unified Security Platform combines Wiz’s cloud security platform with Google security operations to secure cloud native apps at every stage, from code to infrastructure.
- Provides accurate threat intelligence so customers see their systems from an attacker’s view.
- New threat protection against emerging threats arising from AI adoption, including risks associated with AI models.
- Mandiant adds expertise for incident response, readiness, technical assessments, and managed defense tools to measure how well cyber defenses work by testing and checking security controls in advance.
What’s the Value for Google Cloud Customers and Partners?
Our goal is to provide enterprise customers with advanced security solutions that increase protection and reduce security costs across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Through this acquisition, customers can expect improved threat detection, streamlined security management, and new collaborative tools to protect their digital assets.
Waze products will continue to work across major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud. Customers can also access them through partner security solutions. We remain committed to SaaS, virtual, and on-premises apps. The cloud will keep working with top cloud security providers in our marketplace to give customers more options. We’ll help system integrators, resellers, and managed security service providers offer more solutions and create new integration opportunities for technical partners. We remain fully committed to sector standards and the open-source community.
Acquisition
The acquisition still needs to meet standard closing conditions, including regulatory approval. For more details, please see our joint press release and Wiz’s blog.
We are excited to welcome, wish, and offer improved cybersecurity to businesses and governments worldwide.
