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

Wiz is not Google’s first multibillion-dollar cybersecurity acquisition. In 2022, the company spent $5.4 billion to acquire Mandiant, a major provider of cybersecurity services. Mandiant helped develop some of the automation capabilities in Google Security Operations, the product with which the search giant plans to combine Wiz.