Google's $32B Wiz Acquisition Closes: What Network Engineers Need to Know About Cloud Security in 2026
Google completed its $32 billion acquisition of cloud security company Wiz on March 11, 2026 — the largest cybersecurity acquisition in history. Wiz’s Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), which provides agentless security scanning across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud, is now part of Google Cloud. For network engineers managing multi-cloud environments, this deal signals that cloud security posture management is no longer a separate concern from network infrastructure — it’s converging into the hyperscaler platforms you already manage. ...