The real story: Speed and Security at DevOps scale
The real story behind Google acquiring Wiz is how badly the need for speed dominates every enterprise’s DevOps cycles building apps, models and platforms without sacrificing security.
By acquiring Wiz, Google gets an AI-infused Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) designed to eliminate DevSecOps bottlenecks, prevent attacks by and on models in development, prevent cloud breaches and scale multi-cloud security in real time. The Wiz CNAPP platform has earned a global reputation by using AI to enhance its threat detection, predictive analytics, automated remediation, and reduction of false positives.
Wiz will integrate Google’s risk detection, threat intelligence and automated remediation, which all are table stakes for protecting every stage of cloud-based app and model development. That’s a solid contribution to Wiz’s graph-based security engine designed to find and contain attack paths instantly, prioritize actual risks and help security teams identify and fix vulnerabilities before they’re exploited.
Google paying $32 billion in cash signals just how urgent the need for speed is across DevOps cycles that have been asking for an AI-driven CNAPP platform that can flex and scale to keep up with more complex DevOps cycles.
“While Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has been investing in built-in CNAPP capabilities for their own platform’s native security with success, these tools have predominantly focused only on protecting GCP endpoints/assets,” says Andras Cser, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester.
Cser added, “after Microsoft’s 2021 early acquisition of CloudKnox and development of Defender for Cloud, Google is feeling the pressure to offer a true, multicloud-capable CNAPP tool given that so many organizations are multi-cloud today. Forrester expects that, post-acquisition, most current CNAPP capabilities in GCP (CSPM, CIEM, agentless CWP) will be replaced by Wiz’s offering and remain with multi-cloud support.”…
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By Louis Columbus
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