by Google said on Tuesday that Cloud Security Platform WIZ will acquire for 32 billion US dollars, whereby the need for a greater cyber security capacity is listed, since artificial intelligence is embedded in the technology infrastructure.
The all-cash offer brings WIZ to the Google Cloud operation and increases the capacity of consumers to use “several clouds” and “provide an end-to-end security platform for customers of all kinds and sizes in the Ki era”, the companies said in a joint explanation.
The in -depth influence of AI “makes cyber security more and more important to defend against emerging risks and protect national security,” they added.
The transaction, the largest that has ever been searched for by Google or parents Alphabet, will test the openness of US President Donald Trump’s great takeover against such deals by the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden.
Alphabet had been near Wiz’s takeover last summer, but the company managers decided to remain independent at that time, with a view to an initial public offer, said CEO Assaf Rappaport in a message to the employees after the previous deal had fallen apart.
In 2020, Wiz was based in three other US cities and Tel Aviv by the Rappaport born in Israel and a team that had sold an earlier undertaking to Microsoft, based in New York.
In a webcast, after the deal has been announced, Rappaport said the service “continuously searched” the code and cloud environments of a company and monitors them in real time “in order to” prioritize the most critical risk based on real effects and blocks active threats “.
After completing the deal, Wiz is working as a Google company that still offers services for other tech giants such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure and, like the operation of Mandiant, another cybersecurity company that Google acquired three years ago, said Thomas Kurian, CEO from Google Cloud.
“With WIZ we believe that we will significantly improve the way in which security is designed, operated and automated, which provides customers with an end-to-end safety platform to prevent, recognize and react to incidents in all large clouds,” said Kurian.
Google’s cloud business has grown significantly in the past decade and achieved sales of more than 43 billion US dollars in 2024, which increased to an increase of almost 31 percent compared to the previous year.
The Wedbus Analyst Dan Ives said that the Google Wiz deal could be the first of many, with the departure of Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission of the Biden era, which was considered hostile as consolidation of the tech industry.
“While the Merger & Acquisition -environment was extremely quiet for the year, we believe that this acquisition will open the door to a massive wave of M&A throughout the Tech landscape,” said Ives in a note.
