What Google bosses are telling staff about its big $32 billion Wiz deal

• Google agreed to buy cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion, the company's biggest-ever acquisition.
• Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian told staff that AI has changed cybersecurity.
• "We don't make deals like this every day," Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a note to employees.

Google's plan to acquire Wiz is a big deal, and Google bosses want employees to know it.

In emails sent to staff Tuesday, Google's top bosses explained why the search giant plans to spend $32 billion to acquire the cybersecurity startup, which marked the year's biggest deal so far — and the biggest deal of all time for Alphabet.

"We don't make deals like this every day, so I wanted to share a little more about why, and why now," Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in an email, before summarizing some of what was included in the company's public blog post about the deal on Tuesday.

Pichai also forwarded an email from Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Kurian wrote that the announcement comes at a "critical time" for Google and its partners as customers are "accelerating" their move of data to the cloud.

"Most deployments are now multicloud or hybrid — introducing complex management challenges," he wrote in the memo, which was seen by Business Insider.

Multicloud, where organizations use services from more than one cloud provider, has become increasingly important to Google's strategy in the artificial intelligence boom.

Kurian wrote to staff that "customers are broadening their use of software and need to integrate their cybersecurity tools with their software development tools to protect and remediate vulnerabilities."

He also added that "the growing adoption of AI has accelerated the threats both to and from AI models."

"Together, we believe Google Cloud and Wiz will vastly improve how security is designed, operated and automated in the future," Kurian wrote.

Matt Renner, Google's president of global revenue, also emailed staff acknowledging the "rising number" of cybersecurity breaches.

"We believe Wiz and Google Cloud together will accelerate organizations' ability to improve security, lower the cost to do so, and ultimately spur the adoption of multicloud and cloud computing for customers, partners, and the industry as a whole," he wrote.

This week's announcement followed a second run-up at the deal, after Google and Wiz entered talks last year for a $23 billion acquisition that ultimately fizzled out. Wiz, which builds technology that scans data companies put onto the cloud and identifies security risks, would continue to be available through other cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, the companies announced on Tuesday.

In a note this week, Bernstein analysts wrote that acquiring Wiz "plugs a need for an Enterprise-credible cloud security platform," which Google "currently lacks" compared to rivals Amazon and Microsoft.

The deal is still subject to regulatory approval and will be a big test for President Donald Trump's antitrust policy.

In a briefing held Tuesday, Google CFO Anat Ashkenazi said the company expects the Wiz acquisition to close in 2026, pending regulatory scrutiny.

"Until the acquisition closes, Google Cloud and Wiz remain independent companies in all respects and it is crucial that our teams are aware of and follow this guidance," Renner wrote in his memo.

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