Wiz Cofounder: 'Vibe Security' Crucial for AI-Native Cyber Era
The co-founder of Wiz, a cloud security firm recently acquired by Google for $32 billion, has emphasized the critical need for “vibe security” to counter the emerging trend of “vibe coding.” This perspective highlights a significant shift in the cybersecurity landscape, driven by the rapid adoption of AI in software development.
Wiz, an Israeli-American company founded in January 2020, quickly established itself as a leader in cloud security, achieving $100 million in annual recurring revenue within 18 months and reaching $350 million in ARR by February 2024. Its platform offers agentless visibility and risk prioritization across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Kubernetes. This rapid growth and innovative approach made Wiz an attractive target for Google, which finalized its $32 billion all-cash acquisition in March 2025. This acquisition, Google’s largest in its history, is set to integrate Wiz into Google Cloud, significantly bolstering its cybersecurity capabilities amidst the increasing influence of artificial intelligence.
The concept of “vibe coding” has gained traction in 2025 software development, characterized by a fast-paced, instinctual approach, often heavily reliant on AI assistance. This methodology allows developers to bypass extensive design phases, quickly prototyping and generating code with AI prompts. While “vibe coding” offers speed and spontaneity, accelerating innovation and lowering barriers to entry for non-experts, it also introduces substantial cybersecurity risks. The emphasis on speed can lead to critical oversights, especially when combined with AI tooling and less stringent process discipline.
To counteract these risks, the call for “vibe security” arises. This new approach to security aims to address the vulnerabilities inherent in rapid, AI-driven development. While the term “vibe security” itself might be a nascent concept in the broader cybersecurity discourse, existing technologies like Verifiable Identity-Based Encryption (VIBE) offer a glimpse into the kind of robust, identity-centric security that could be crucial. VIBE, for example, is a certificate-less, asymmetric encryption and authentication scheme designed to provide absolute security and simplify key sharing. It focuses on verifying users, devices, and data as authentic, preventing data alteration or identity theft, and is suited for securing IoT, blockchain, fintech systems, and other connected solutions.
For cloud security firms like Wiz, the challenge now is to contend with an “AI-native generation of cyber firms.” Wiz has already demonstrated its foresight by launching AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), which identifies AI services, technologies, and libraries in use, and enforces AI configuration baselines to prevent misconfigurations that could expose sensitive data. This proactive stance, coupled with Google’s significant investment, positions Wiz to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud security in an AI-first world. The integration of Wiz’s agentless, AI-native threat detection is expected to redefine multi-cloud trust, allowing Google to offer a more autonomous and preemptive security model.