Wiz is an Israeli-American cloud security company founded in January 2020. In March 2025, Google announced an all-cash acquisition of Wiz for $32 billion—the largest cybersecurity acquisition of all time. The company’s agentless platform provides comprehensive security visibility across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes environments.

Platform Overview

Wiz Security Platform connects via cloud APIs to provide:

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

  • Continuous configuration assessment against CIS benchmarks and custom policies
  • Compliance monitoring for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and more
  • Drift detection and remediation workflows

Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP)

  • Agentless vulnerability scanning for VMs, containers, and serverless
  • Malware and secrets detection without deploying agents
  • Runtime threat detection via cloud-native telemetry

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)

  • Identity and access analysis across cloud accounts
  • Least privilege recommendations
  • Cross-account access path visualization

Attack Path Analysis

  • Graphical visualization of exploitable attack paths
  • Risk prioritization based on actual exposure
  • Correlation of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identities

Funding History

Before the Google acquisition, Wiz raised over $1.9 billion:

  • Series E (May 2024): $1 billion at $12 billion valuation
  • Series D (2022): $300 million at $10 billion valuation
  • Series C (2021): $250 million at $6 billion valuation

Investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Thrive Capital, and Greenoaks.

Leadership

  • Assaf Rappaport, CEO and Co-Founder (former Microsoft Cloud Security GM)
  • Yinon Costica, VP Product and Co-Founder
  • Roy Reznik, VP R&D and Co-Founder
  • Ami Luttwak, CTO and Co-Founder

All four co-founders previously founded Adallom, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2015.

Market Position

Wiz is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP). The company reports over 45% of Fortune 100 companies as customers and achieved over $500M ARR by mid-2024.