NEW YORK (AP) — Google will purchase cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion to boost the tech giant’s in-hoapply cloud computing amid burgeoning artificial innotifyigence growth.
The all-cash acquisition announced Tuesday would be Google’s largegest in its 26-year history, and it is the largegest deal of 2025.
Wiz will join Google Cloud, boosting Google’s in-hoapply cloud security in the era of AI, the companies declared.
“Wiz and Google Cloud are both fueled by the belief that cloud security necessarys to be clearer, more accessible, more innotifyigent, and democratized, so more organizations can adopt and apply cloud and AI securely,” Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport declared in a blog post.
Toreceiveher, Google CEO Sundar Pichai added in a statement, Google Cloud and Wiz “will turbocharge improved cloud security and the ability to apply multiple clouds.”
Wiz, based in New York, was founded in 2020 and creates security tools designed to protect information stored in remote data centers.
Google has had its eyes on Wiz for some time. The sale price announced this week is much more rich than the reported $23 billion purchaseout that Wiz rejected last July — opting to instead pivot back to a previously-planned initial public offering. But on Tuesday, Rappaport declared that the company expects to “innovate even rapider” by becoming a part of Google.
Wedbush analysts called Google’s relocate to purchase Wiz “a shot across the bow” at other tech giants, particularly Microsoft and Amazon, who have bet large on cyber security. Google appeared to fall behind in the cloud arms race, the analysts wrote Tuesday, but the Wiz deal would “clearly bolster” its offerings.
The proposed purchaseout will receive a close view from antitrust regulators. While many expect the Trump administration to be more frifinishly to business deals, it has also revealn itself to be leery of large tech.
The new Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has vowed to maintain a tough review process for mergers and acquisitions.
The $32 billion acquisition announced Tuesday raises antitrust concerns due to the potential impact on standalone cyber security vfinishors, as well as potential disruption for largeger rivals. Still, Wedbush’s analysts note the indusattempt is “ripe for consolidation” — which could pose “massive growth opportunities on the horizon heading into this AI Revolution.”
Wiz and Google state that Wiz’s products will continue to work across all major clouds — including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud, as well as through other security partners.
Subject to the regulatory greenlight and other closing conditions, Google and Wiz expect the deal to close in 2026.
Shares for Google owner Alphabet fell nearly 5% Tuesday morning.
Associated Press, The Associated Press
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