Today, as we officially begin our journey as a Google company, that belief feels real in a much deeper way.
Nearly a year ago, we shared that Wiz would be joining Google. At the time, we spoke about a belief that by bringing together Wiz’s innovation and Google’s scale, we could meaningfully change what security looks like in the cloud.
Today, as we officially begin our journey as a Google company, that belief feels real in a much deeper way. Not because of what has changed, but because of what has stayed true.
Our mission remains bold and unwavering: to help every organization protect everything they build and run. What has changed is the world around us. Now, we must do this at the speed of AI.
A Year of Redefining Velocity
Cloud once transformed how fast teams could build. AI is doing it again, unlocking a new era of innovation where applications move from idea to production in minutes. Generative AI is no longer experimental; it’s becoming a core part of how modern organizations build, ship, and scale.
Customers are leaning into this moment, using AI to move faster, create more, and reimagine what’s possible. But building at this pace requires a new approach to security – one that keeps up with change and supports innovation rather than slows it down.
At Wiz, we believe security should accelerate progress. By combining deep understanding of cloud environments with rich context across code, cloud, and runtime, we enable teams to build AI-powered applications securely from the start and strengthen them continuously as they evolve.
Today’s security leaders are focused on enabling the business, supporting rapid innovation while staying ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats. With Wiz, they don’t have to choose between speed and security.
In this environment, velocity is everything. At Wiz, it’s our mantra; we’re committed to helping customers turn that speed into a lasting edge – building boldly, securely, and with confidence.
The Path That Brought Us Here
During the acquisition process, our wizards never stopped building. In the past year, we hit many major milestones thanks to their grit and determination.
Wiz Research continues to be at the forefront of security, uncovering critical vulnerabilities that protect not just Wiz customers, but the industry at large. This work highlights the systemic risks inherent in the digital age, with discoveries like:
An exposed database in Moltbook, a viral social network for AI agents, that leaked millions of API keys and underscored the security implications of vibe coded applications.
CodeBreach, a critical supply chain vulnerability that could have compromised the AWS Console.
RediShell, a 13-year-old critical RCE flaw in Redis (CVSS 10.0) that impacted over 75% of cloud environments.
NVIDIAScape, a container escape vulnerability that threatened shared AI infrastructure.
A collaboration with vibe coding leader Lovable to harden their platform and protect the next generation of AI-generated applications (where Wiz found that 1 in 5 organizations are exposed to systemic risks).
The discovery and remediation of a sophisticated wave of supply chain attacks, including Shai-Hulud and NX, where our research protected hundreds of organizations from highly targeted, evolving threats.
To push the boundaries of innovation even further, we also hosted ZeroDay.cloud, a first-of-its-kind hacking competition where the world's top researchers uncovered a record number of CVEs in foundational cloud and AI tools.
These milestones represent our unwavering commitment to securing the open-source and multicloud infrastructure underpinning the modern world.
Building an AI Security Platform for the Future
Product innovation has always been at the heart of Wiz, and over the past year, our momentum has only accelerated.
As customers build and ship faster in the AI era, we expanded the Wiz AI Security Platform to secure AI applications themselves, providing visibility into AI usage, preventing AI-native risks, and protecting AI workloads in runtime.
We introduced Wiz Exposure Management to give teams a single, proactive view of risk -- unifying vulnerability and attack surface management from code to cloud to on-prem, so they can focus on what truly matters and proactively remove exploitable risk.
We pushed the boundaries of automation with AI Security Agents, purpose-built to help teams investigate, prioritize, and remediate risk at machine speed, powered by deep context across code, cloud, and runtime.
And to help developers start secure by default, we launched WizOS: hardened, near-zero-CVE container base images that give teams a trusted foundation from the very first commit.
These are just a few highlights from a year of relentless building, and we’re only getting started.
The Power of AI and the Strength of Multi-Cloud
Now, as one team with Google Cloud, we have the opportunity to accelerate our roadmap in ways that simply weren’t possible before. By integrating the most cutting edge AI capabilities into the Wiz platform, we’ll continue to give security teams new superpowers. In the coming days, we’ll share more about how we’re already working with Gemini, and what the next phase of this partnership will unlock.
But one thing is not changing: Wiz remains a multi-cloud platform. Today, we work with most of the Fortune 100, and most of the Frontier AI labs, as well as many of the world’s fastest-growing, cloud-native companies. Our customers run on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Our goal is to protect their entire environment – every workload, every application, every major cloud.
Joining Google doesn’t narrow our focus. It strengthens it. With Google’s infrastructure, Mandiant’s threat intelligence, and the broader Google Unified Security Platform and ecosystem, we can protect customers better – wherever they build.
Trust is something we earn every day. And we intend to prove it through our actions, our product, and our pace of innovation.
The Next Chapter
To our customers: thank you for your trust. You challenge us to solve the hardest problems in security, and you are the reason we build.
To the Wiz team: I may be CEO in title, but you are the ones who lead. Thank you for your dedication, your care, and your belief in what we’re making together.
Our mission remains as bold as ever: to protect everything organizations build and run.
And we are still just getting started.
From code to cloud to AI, get a firsthand look at how Wiz helps you build, ship, and run securely, regardless of where your workloads live.
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Apparently Israeli media is reporting that the price is so high that the government is requesting the founders will pay their taxes in USD and not Israeli Shekels in fear that such a large foreign exchange transaction will affect the exchange rate. ( Which is already unusually low and hurting exporters)
This would be the first time taxes are paid in a different currency in Israel history.
Pretty wild that it's such a large acquisition it can affect a nation's monetary policy.
By solatic 2026-03-1213:25 Average daily USD-NIS trading volume (per Bank of Israel: https://www.boi.org.il/en/communication-and-publications/pre... ) is on the order of magnitude of about $15 billion.
There are multiple founders getting billions of dollars each. It's not so unreasonble to fear what could happen if daily trading volume suddenly had a significant increase from them collectively dumping billions of dollars onto the market on the same day to settle the tax bill.
I was curious about this claim and dug up this article from (as far as I understand it), Israel's version of The Economist
The name “Calcalist” is indeed a play on “Economist” (it is not a proper Hebrew word, but fuses the Hebrew word for economy “calcala” with the English suffix for a professional work “ist”.
However, it is just an expanded version of Ynet’s business/economy section, and Ynet is probably the closest equivalent to USA Today or The Sun.
Is it etymologically related to "calculate" or is it a coincidence?
Seems to be a coincidence - the Hebrew word comes from the Bible (old testament), and means "the feeding, and generally providing of needs".
The English word comes from "calculus", meaning, apparently, pebble, because original counting was done with pebbles.
(I had to look both up. Thanks for asking)
How can a word come from the Bible? It must have existed before the Bible in order to have a meaning inside of it. Or did you mean to write it came from Aramaic?
By shakna 2026-03-130:59 Hebrew is a reconstructed language. Whilst some roots will predate the Torah, most won't.
Several words, like the infamous "shibboleth" won't be inherited, or their meanings may wildly differ.
By beagle3 2026-03-1220:25 I mean that it already appears in the Bible, in old Hebrew (which is close to, but isn’t exactly Aramaic), with the meaning “to feed and provide” - and I did not find any documentation about how it formed (or came into) Hebrew.
Which means of course m, that it was already in use before the Bible was canonicalized.
FYI, Wiz investor and current Wiz board member Gili Raanan, head of Israeli VC Cyberstarts, has been (credibly) accused of paying bribes to major CISOs for buying software from their portfolio companies like Wiz.
Calcalist did a deep investigation into it: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc
By FreakLegion 2026-03-121:231 reply This is well known in cybersecurity circles. I mentioned here[1] a couple years back that I know CISOs who've had to clean up big messes because their predecessor was on the Cyberstarts payroll, but on the bright side I also know a couple of those predecessors who were fired for it.
Cyberstarts is the most blatant offender, but to be fair, VC has turned into the next rung on the career ladder for CIOs/CISOs, whose role is otherwise generally terminal (unlike e.g. COO or CMO). So a lot of deals get done now just on giving CISOs a path into VC. It's more subtle than Gili's way, and just as effective.
About 20 years ago I quite liked the idea of becoming a CISO - the CIO I worked for at the time talked me out of it - saying that the role would largely involve being ignored then, when something inevitably did go wrong, you'd get sacked.
By FreakLegion 2026-03-1219:43 The board of a Fortune 1000 financial services company just fired the CISO and Deputy CISO because they did too good a job cataloging all of the risk in their infrastructure. Now that it's documented and defensibly quantified, the company is somewhat obliged to do something about it, and the board was not thrilled.
It can be a rough gig.
By cubicmeter 2026-03-1123:55 :)
By myth_drannon 2026-03-121:41 Not a lawyer but this looks like a grey area and since it's public it can be assumed everyone is trying to do it. I worked for F500 and one of the VPs was pushing some IT vendor solution that didn't really fit, after so much implementation pains and half working product release the said VP left the company... To become a board member of that IT vendor.
By ifwinterco 2026-03-1214:28 I for one am shocked that an Israeli VC might behave unethically
How is this even legal? I'd think even basic conflict of interest rules between vendor and purchases would stop this.
By tsimionescu 2026-03-1212:26 It's almost certainly not legal (it could probably be tried as fraud), and it definitely is a breach of contract for the CISO. I'm not claiming it happened, I have no idea, just commenting on the legality of the claimed acts.
By citizenkeen 2026-03-121:29 Israeli isn’t an ethnicity, it’s a nationality. Conflating the two doesn’t do anybody any favors.
By bigyabai 2026-03-121:13 Israel garnered a reputation for giving safe harbor to legally spurious businesses like NSO Group.
By TitaRusell 2026-03-121:34 Israel is not an ethnicity. They still have 25% Arab Israelis- a leftover from the days when the founders were still building a secular European style country.
They treat them as second class ofcourse. And it is essentially a manageable minority- they are politically sidelined in the Knesset.
By swingboy 2026-03-122:02 Sam Altman is Jewish, but he isn’t Israeli.
By StartupsWala 2026-03-1117:202 reply The interesting part is that Wiz built its success largely on being cloud-agnostic. If Google keeps it that way, it becomes a strategic window into AWS and Azure workloads.
If they don’t, they risk destroying the very advantage that made Wiz valuable in the first place.
By eitally 2026-03-1122:09 They very likely will continue being cloud-agnostic, just like they did with Mandiant Consulting.
Google has quite a bit of support for other clouds already. The managed Kubernetes in Gcloud can run workloads on other clouds, for example.
By verdverm 2026-03-1122:31 They all pretty much support cloud agnostic WIF any which way at this point. With that out of the way, the rest gets easier.
