Google Bought Wiz for $32B. Let’s Talk About What That Means

$32 billion is a lot of money.

It’s enough to get everyone’s attention — especially if you’re in the business of securing cloud infrastructure. 

With Google acquiring Wiz for one of the largest cybersecurity deals in history, a lot of security teams are asking the right question:

Do we really want one cloud provider auditing the security posture of all the others?

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Cloud Security Just Got More Complicated

Wiz made a name for itself by offering visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes. 

One platform, many clouds. 

But now that platform belongs to Google — and that’s a problem if you care about independence and objectivity in your security tooling.

Because when your cloud security tool is owned by a hyperscaler, you have to ask:

Who’s watching the watcher?

Imagine trying to explain to your CFO why your AWS security assessment is routed through Google’s infrastructure. 

Or why your compliance auditor is now looking at alerts generated by a company with a $32B reason to see things their way.

Cloud Security Should Be Vendor-Neutral, Inspectable, and In Your Control

That’s why we built Prowler — and why it’s getting a lot of attention from folks reevaluating their stack in light of the Wiz deal.

Prowler started in the open, where all good infrastructure tools begin. 

It was born as a CLI tool that helped AWS users quickly audit their environments for misconfigurations and compliance gaps. 

Fast-forward a few years, and it’s grown into a full-fledged, multi-cloud security platform with serious enterprise capabilities — still grounded in the open-source philosophy that made it trustworthy to begin with.

Cloud Security You Can See and Trust

Prowler is a direct answer to what teams are asking for: comprehensive visibility, open APIs, deep compliance coverage, and zero cloud allegiance.

Here’s what you get:

• ✅ Multi-cloud coverage for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes— no blind spots
• ✅ Hundreds of checks covering misconfigurations, IAM risks, and known CVEs
• ✅ Compliance frameworks like NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, and more
• ✅ Actionable remediation built into every finding
• ✅ API-first by design, so you can plug it into whatever pipeline or SIEM you already trust
• ✅ Open core architecture, backed by a commercial offering when you need scale and support
  

We don’t sell cloud. We sell clarity.

What Teams Are Telling Us

Security engineers don’t like surprises. Here’s why orgs are switching from Wiz to Prowler:

• Vendor neutrality: No cloud-provider agenda. Just straight-up security.
• Transparency: You can inspect what we’re doing, contribute to it, and build on top of it.
• Predictable pricing: Not influenced by Google’s quarterly earnings.
• Control of data: Your findings stay yours. Full stop.
• Feature parity: If you liked what Wiz did, you’ll find familiar capabilities — plus a few extras — in Prowler Cloud.
  

How to Migrate Without Breaking Things

Nobody wants to forklift their entire security stack overnight. Here’s how teams are making the transition smooth:

1. Start with Prowler Open Source: Kick the tires, run a few checks. See what you find.
   
2. Request a demo of Prowler: Let us walk you through the enterprise features.
   
3. Run side-by-side: Compare results with Wiz to validate coverage.
   
4. Plan your migration: We’ll help you scope timelines, data retention, and integrations.
   
5. Automate with APIs: You shouldn’t need to rebuild your workflows just to get objectivity.
   

Final Word: Security Shouldn’t Come with a Conflict of Interest

This isn’t about whether Wiz is good tech. It is. It’s about who owns it now, and what that means for your security strategy.

Security teams are already under pressure to do more with less, detect faster, and cover more ground. The last thing you need is a platform whose incentives are no longer aligned with yours.

If you want a tool that’s built to serve the security community — not the cloud vendor — Prowler is here.

Give it a try. Ask hard questions. Run it against your infra and see what it finds.

Cloud security isn’t about trusting vendors — it’s about trusting the process, the tools, and the results.

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