Google partners with Wiz for multi-cloud security

Google Cloud and Wiz used Google Cloud Next on April 22 to lay out a shared security platform that works across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud and Google’s own cloud. (blog.google) Cloud security software works like a live map of a company’s internet systems: it tracks servers, apps, identities and code, then shows how an attacker could move between them. Google said Wiz builds that map across “all major clouds,” while Google brings threat intelligence and security operations tools that watch for attacks and coordinate response. (cloud.google.com) (blog.google) The timing is close behind Google’s $32 billion purchase of Wiz, which was announced on March 18, 2025 and completed on March 11, 2026. Google said after the close that Wiz would keep its brand and keep selling security tools across rival clouds, not just Google Cloud. (blog.google 1) (blog.google 2) At this week’s event, Google said the combined platform will merge Google Threat Intelligence, Google Security Operations and Wiz’s cloud and artificial intelligence security products. Sundar Pichai said the package includes “agentic” threat-detection tools, meaning software agents that can hunt for suspicious behavior and help analysts investigate it. (blog.google) (crn.com) Google also introduced three new security agents tied to that push: a Threat Hunting agent, a Detection Engineering agent and a Third-Party Context agent. CRN reported the first two are in preview, while the third is “coming soon” to preview; Google also said its Triage and Investigation agent cut one manual analysis task from about 30 minutes to one minute. (crn.com) Wiz’s side of the story is the “Security Graph,” the data model that links code, cloud resources, services and applications so defenders can see risky connections. Google described that graph last year as the thing that lets Wiz scan a customer’s environment quickly, identify attack paths and rank the most important risks before software is deployed. (cloud.google.com) That graph is now being stretched beyond basic cloud infrastructure into newer artificial intelligence tooling. Techzine reported that Wiz added support for Databricks and for “agent studios” including AWS AgentCore, Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Microsoft Azure Copilot Studio and Salesforce Agentforce. (techzine.eu) Wiz is also packaging security for artificial intelligence applications more directly. Google said Wiz’s new AI Application Protection Platform, or AI-APP, covers systems “from code to cloud to runtime” across multicloud, hybrid and AI environments; Techzine described it as an extension of cloud-native application protection for software that now includes AI components. (blog.google) (techzine.eu) The competitive point is straightforward: Google is trying to make security the control layer that sits above the cloud providers themselves. If customers keep running workloads across several clouds, the vendor that can enforce one set of policies, telemetry and response workflows across all of them gains leverage even when it does not host the underlying computing. (cloud.google.com) (techzine.eu) For now, Google’s promise is continuity as much as expansion: Wiz stays multicloud, Google adds its intelligence and operations stack, and both companies are betting that security buyers want one map of risk across every environment they run. (blog.google 1) (blog.google 2)