$32B investment in Wiz will change Google’s Multi-Cloud!
dependence on external vendors for multi-cloud security, mirroring Microsoft's approach with Defender for Cloud,…” The March 19, 2025 article entitled " How Google’s $32B Wiz Acquisition Will Reshape Cloud Defense” (https://tinyurl.com/4z649faf) included these comments from Gartner's Charlie Winckless:
Wiz emerged as the pure-play cloud security market leader because of its strong product architecture that integrates cloud security posture management, cloud detection and response, and application security. Like Palo Alto Networks' decision to move its cloud security unit under its security operations business, Winckless said Wiz's CSPM capabilities will be integrated into Google's broad security operations stack…
"There's a lot of synergy here," he said. "There is a lot of risk. The biggest risk is going to be perception. Now we are going to have to ask ourselves, 'If I'm an AWS-first and Azure-first or OCI-first shop, is there going as much investment in capabilities and control for those in Wiz as there will be for GCP?' I expect that will not change, certainly not in the short term. But that's something to continue to watch for over time."
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