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Why is Google spending $32 billion to acquire Wiz?

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Google is looking to bolster the security of its Google Cloud product by buying cloud security startup Wiz.

Google wanted to buy Wiz last year and was ready to buy the five-year-old startup for $23 billion .

Google might still see some pushback from Trump ’s FTC over the acquisition.

Finally, Wiz is also known for finding a few key vulnerabilities associated with Azure infrastructure, like ChaosDB. Similarly, Wiz identified issues in Oracle and IBM clouds. More recently, Wiz found a massive DeepSeek security issue, a database containing user data that anyone could access, suggesting the Chinese AI’s first major hack might have already happened. To put things in perspective, Wiz already works with 40% of the Fortune 100 companies. That’s enough to explain why Google would spend tens of billions on a relatively new security player. Wiz was founded in early 2020 ..