Here are the biggest innovation plans Google and Wiz have in store for the security and AI markets, along with its go-to-market strategy, cloud partnerships and future together.
Google and Wiz are officially one company, with massive plans in store to win more global cybersecurity market share and take AI security innovation to the next level.
Google’s $456 billion annual revenue run rate and growing operating income, alongside Google Cloud’s enterprise momentum and $71 billion annual revenue run rate, aims to globally scale Wiz to new heights.
From a new AI-powered security platform and Wiz-Gemini integration already in the works, to keeping Wiz open to Google’s largest rivals AWS and Microsoft, CRN breaks down the biggest plans in store for customers, channel partners and product launches ahead.
Google-Wiz Unveil Plan For New ‘AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform’ To Give Customers ‘Superpowers’
“Together, we will offer an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that combines Google’s Threat Intelligence and Security Operations with Wiz’s Cloud and AI Security Platform to detect, prevent, and respond to threats across all environments,” said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in a blog post.
Google Cloud and Wiz are building a new unified security platform that improves the speed with which organizations can detect, prevent, and respond to threats.
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Google said the new platform will help customers stay ahead of the curve by detecting emerging threats created using AI models, protecting against threats to AI models, and using AI models to help security professionals hunt for threats more effectively.
Wiz CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport said the innovation between the two companies will give customers “new superpowers.”
“By integrating the most cutting-edge AI capabilities into the Wiz platform, we’ll continue to give security teams new superpowers,” he said.
The Takeaway: The merger of Google and Wiz aims to create a next-generation AI-powered security platform aiming to steal market share from the world’s largest security competitors.
Click through to read about five other major plans for the new Google-Wiz combined company.
Wiz Will Work On AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud And Others
A significant Google Cloud differentiator against its competitors AWS and Microsoft has always been the company’s commitment to openness.
Google has confirmed that Wiz products will continue to work and be available across all major clouds— including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud, and will be offered through various partner security solutions.
“We have always believed that security is an enterprise-wide problem, and customers can use our solutions to work across all the clouds they adopt—we remain committed to doing so, including continuing to have Wiz support multiple clouds,” said Kurian.
“In addition, we are committed to continuing to support packaged applications, SaaS applications, and workloads running on virtual and on-premises environments,” Kurian said. “We maintain our full, longstanding commitment to industry standards and the open-source community.”
Wiz CEO said its customers run on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. “Our goal is to protect their entire environment—every workload, every application, every major cloud,” he said.
The Takeaway: Google Cloud owns a 14 percent share of the global cloud infrastructure market, only trailing behind Microsoft at 21 percent share, then AWS at 28 percent share.
The move for Wiz to continue to support its two biggest competitors shows that Google is doubling down on its willingness to work with its rivals for its ever-growing enterprise customer base.
Wiz Is ‘Already Working With Gemini,’ Google To Leverage Wiz’s New AI Innovation
Google will leverage Wiz’s AI innovation for its own security purposes, while also integrating its flagship AI Gemini portfolio into the mix.
“In the coming days, we’ll share more about how we’re already working with Gemini,” said Wiz CEO Rappaport.
Over the past 12 months, Wiz has significantly expanded its platform to address the security challenges of the AI era, Google Cloud’s CEO Kurian said.
This includes new AI security capabilities that give organizations visibility into AI applications and usage, prevent AI-native risks, and protect AI workloads at runtime, alongside expanded exposure management and AI-powered security agents.
Wiz’s AI innovations help customers detect, investigate, and respond to threats fast and with a great amount of precision. These capabilities enable Wiz to validate risk, accelerate remediation, and improve security outcomes at scale.
“With Google Cloud—and leveraging advanced AI technologies such as Gemini—Wiz will continue to strengthen its ability to help customers secure modern cloud and AI environments,” said Kurian.
The Takeaway: It is interesting to know that Wiz’s team is already working on developing new innovations alongside Gemini. This means new offerings or tools could be released as early as later in 2026.
New ‘Detect-To-Remediate’ And ‘Proactive AI Defense’ Innovation Ahead, COO Says
Google Cloud’s Chief Operating Officer and President of Security Products, Francis deSouza, shed some light on more integrated innovation plans for 2026 and beyond.
“By integrating Wiz, we are enabling a ‘detect-to-remediate’ cycle that operates at the speed of the cloud, not a manual ticket,” said Google Cloud’s COO on LinkedIn this week.
In terms of new code-to-runtime protection innovation, deSouza said the combination of Wiz technology with Google’s threat intelligence, security operations tools and cybersecurity consulting will “close the loop between development and defense.”
Additionally, the now merged company will provide new “proactive AI defense” innovation, he said.
“As AI agents become extensions of your team, we are providing the tools to secure AI workloads and prevent new threats targeting AI models,” deSouza said.
“We are moving decisively to solve two critical challenges facing organizations: fragmented multicloud environments, and the speed and scale of AI-driven threats,” he said.
The Takeaway: The innovation engine and synergies between Google Cloud and Wiz seem to be already well underway. This should help speed up go-to-market and new product availability for partners.
Wiz CEO On Why The Company Was Bought By Google
Wiz CEO Rappaport said some of the main reasons why Wiz was acquired by Google is due to Google’s massive infrastructure, large security portfolio and ability to scale on a global basis.
“With Google’s infrastructure, Mandiant’s threat intelligence, and the broader Google Unified Security Platform and ecosystem, we can protect customers better—wherever they build,” said Rappaport.
He said by bringing together, “Wiz’s innovation and Google’s scale, we could meaningfully change what security looks like in the cloud.”
Additionally, Google Cloud’s generative AI innovation is key to the security market.
“Generative AI is no longer experimental; it’s becoming a core part of how modern organizations build, ship, and scale,” Rappaport said. “Joining Google Cloud allows us to scale our mission of protecting customers wherever they operate—at machine speed.”
He said joining Google Cloud “doesn’t narrow” Wiz’s focus and strategy, but “strengthens” it.
“Our mission remains as bold as ever: to protect everything organizations build and run. And we are still just getting started,” Rappaport said.
The Takeaway: Wiz was founded in 2020. The startup created remarkable security innovation and sales growth in just a few years. Rappaport decided to scale Wiz larger than it ever could by itself by leveraging Google Cloud parent company’s Alphabet’s massive technology footprint and $456 billion annual revenue run rate.
What Will Wiz Look Like Now? Channel Plans Ahead
The Wiz team officially joined Google Cloud this week.
Google has retained Wiz employees and executive team members, including CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport who will remain the leader of Wiz.
Wiz will retain its name and brand, continuing to operate as Wiz inside Google Cloud.
On the channel partner front, Kurian said Google and Wiz partners have nothing to fear.
“We will enable system integrators, resellers, and managed security service providers to offer broader solutions and services to our customers, as well as provide new integration opportunities for our technical partners,” said Kurian.
“We are thrilled to welcome the Wiz team to Google Cloud, and we look forward to building a more secure digital future together,” Kurian said.
The Takeaway: Overall, it appears Wiz and Google Cloud have been planning for nearly a year to hit the ground running as soon as the deal closed. It looks like the plan worked.
