{"id":24216,"date":"2025-03-18T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24216"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:26:51","slug":"google-seals-32-billion-deal-for-cyber-start-up-wiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24216","title":{"rendered":"Google Seals $32 Billion Deal for Cyber Start-Up Wiz"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

The acquisition could make the Silicon Valley giant a bigger force in cybersecurity, and arrives months after an earlier round of talks collapsed.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

Google has agreed to buy Wiz, a fast-growing cybersecurity start-up, for $32 billion in the company\u2019s biggest push to strengthen its cloud-computing business and expand beyond the search engine and consumer internet services that made it a household name.<\/p>\n

The all-cash deal, announced on Tuesday<\/a>, would be Google\u2019s largest, easily surpassing its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2012.<\/p>\n

With the deal, Google would get a five-year-old company that most consumers are unfamiliar with but that a growing number of businesses rely on to protect their cloud applications. The Silicon Valley giant worked for months last year to forge a deal for<\/a> Wiz, which was most recently valued at $12 billion. In July, Wiz rejected Google\u2019s $23 billion takeover offer<\/a>, saying it wanted to pursue an initial public offering, but an I.P.O. never came.<\/p>\n

The splashy purchase would inject fresh momentum into Google Cloud, the division that sells computing services to other businesses. It would also be the tech giant\u2019s most aggressive effort to keep up with Microsoft, its longtime rival, in cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
\n
\n

\u201cToday, businesses and governments that run in the cloud are looking for even stronger security solutions, and greater choice in cloud computing providers,\u201d Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, said in a statement. \u201cTogether, Google Cloud and Wiz will turbocharge improved cloud security and the ability to use multiple clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n

But first, Alphabet, Google\u2019s parent company, would have to clear regulatory hurdles.<\/p>\n

The deal will test the company\u2019s ability to conduct major acquisitions during protracted antitrust battles with the U.S. government. The Justice Department has sued Google in two separate monopoly cases, one targeting its ubiquitous search engine and another seeking to break up its digital advertising-technology business. A federal judge ruled that the company had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search<\/a> and will decide on remedies to restore competition by August.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n

We are having trouble retrieving the article content.<\/p>\n

Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into<\/a>\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0for all of The Times.<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Thank you for your patience while we verify access.<\/p>\n

Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The acquisition could make the Silicon Valley giant a bigger force in cybersecurity, and arrives months after an earlier round of talks collapsed.Google has agreed to buy Wiz, a fast-growing cybersecurity start-up, for $32 billion in the company\u2019s biggest push to strengthen its cloud-computing business and expand beyond the search engine and consumer internet services that made it a household name.The all-cash deal, announced on Tuesday, would be Google\u2019s largest, easily surpassing its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2012.With the deal, Google would get a five-year-old company that most consumers are unfamiliar with but that a growing number of businesses rely on to protect their cloud applications. The Silicon Valley giant worked for months last year to forge a deal for Wiz, which was most recently valued at $12 billion. In July, Wiz rejected Google\u2019s $23 billion takeover offer, saying it wanted to pursue an initial public offering, but an I.P.O. never came.The splashy purchase would inject fresh momentum into Google Cloud, the division that sells computing services to other businesses. It would also be the tech giant\u2019s most aggressive effort to keep up with Microsoft, its longtime rival, in cybersecurity.\u201cToday, businesses and governments that run in the cloud are looking for even stronger security solutions, and greater choice in cloud computing providers,\u201d Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, said in a statement. \u201cTogether, Google Cloud and Wiz will turbocharge improved cloud security and the ability to use multiple clouds.\u201dBut first, Alphabet, Google\u2019s parent company, would have to clear regulatory hurdles.The deal will test the company\u2019s ability to conduct major acquisitions during protracted antitrust battles with the U.S. government. The Justice Department has sued Google in two separate monopoly cases, one targeting its ubiquitous search engine and another seeking to break up its digital advertising-technology business. A federal judge ruled that the company had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search and will decide on remedies to restore competition by August.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24218,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216\/revisions\/24218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}