Introduction
Wiz is a cloud security company founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik — engineers who previously sold Adallom to Microsoft and led cloud security work there. Wiz built an agentless platform that connects to customer cloud accounts through provider APIs, maps resources and identities into a security graph, and prioritizes risks that combine misconfigurations, exposed secrets, and excessive permissions.
On March 11, 2026, Google announced that its acquisition of Wiz had closed. Google stated that Wiz would continue operating under its brand and supporting customers across major cloud providers. For readers tracking cloud security consolidation, Wiz is both a reference architecture for CNAPP-style graph prioritization and a live case study in hyperscaler absorption of multicloud security vendors.
What the company does
Wiz provides cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) without deploying agents inside workloads. The platform ingests configuration and identity data from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud, builds a graph of assets and relationships, and highlights high-impact risk paths — what Wiz describes as toxic combinations of issues that are benign in isolation but dangerous together. Product modules include posture management, code and pipeline scanning (Wiz Code), runtime detection (Wiz Defend), and capabilities aimed at securing customer AI systems in cloud environments.
Who it serves
Wiz sells to security and cloud platform teams at organizations running substantial workloads across one or more public clouds. Its customers have historically included large enterprises and fast-growing cloud-native companies that need continuous visibility into configuration drift, identity risk, and software supply-chain exposure without maintaining a separate agent fleet per workload.
Company background
Wiz was founded in 2020 and headquartered in the United States with significant engineering roots in Israel. The founding team’s prior exit to Microsoft shaped Wiz’s API-first, agentless design philosophy. Before the Google transaction, Wiz raised multiple venture rounds documented in its own announcements and covered in financial press. Google announced an agreement to acquire Wiz on March 18, 2025, and confirmed the deal closed on March 11, 2026.
Product and AI capabilities
Wiz uses graph analytics and machine learning to correlate cloud configuration signals and prioritize remediation. Rather than presenting thousands of isolated misconfigurations, the platform emphasizes attack paths and compound risk. Wiz has extended this model to scan infrastructure-as-code, application artifacts, and AI-related cloud assets where customers deploy models or expose AI services. The approach sits in the CNAPP category alongside vendors such as Orca Security, but Wiz’s scale and subsequent Google ownership distinguish its go-to-market trajectory.
Key developments
2020: Wiz founded by the Adallom alumni team. 2021–2024: Rapid customer adoption and venture funding rounds publicly announced by Wiz. March 18, 2025: Google Cloud announced a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz for approximately $32 billion in cash. March 11, 2026: Google and Wiz announced regulatory clearance and deal close, with Wiz continuing as a brand within Google Cloud. Google’s public statements emphasized continued multicloud support after close.
Why it matters
Wiz matters because it made agentless, graph-based cloud risk prioritization a mainstream buyer conversation — shifting budgets toward platforms that explain why a specific cloud exposure is urgent. The Google acquisition also raises practical questions for security leaders: how independent product roadmaps evolve inside a hyperscaler, and whether multicloud commitments made at close are maintained as integration deepens. Neither question has a settled industry answer yet, which is why ownership status belongs in the profile rather than in marketing language.
Sector context
Wiz belongs in Brel’s AI in cybersecurity coverage as a cloud security platform using machine learning for risk correlation and prioritization. Related profiles include Orca Security, CrowdStrike, and SentinelOne for contrasting deployment models across endpoint and cloud.
Sources and references
Google acquisition announcement (March 2025), Google Cloud close announcement (March 2026), and Wiz official about page. See source list in profile metadata.