Google Buys Wiz to Make the Internet Safer for Everyone
On March 18, 2025, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, paid $32 billion to buy cloud security startup Wiz, its biggest acquisition thus far. Introduced in March 2025, Wiz’s AI-driven threat detection improves real-time multicloud security, hence lowering breaches by forty percent. Following its $5.4 billion Mandiant acquisition in 2022, this action reinforces Google Cloud’s cybersecurity initiatives. Google Cloud prevented 1.2 million intrusions just in February 2025 alone. Cross-platform interoperability of Wiz helps AWS and Azure users, therefore perhaps reducing world cybercrime expenses by $500 million yearly. This acquisition supports Google’s cybersecurity leadership and its dedication to a safer digital ecosystem.