wizcli mit Homebrew Cask installieren

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Befehle und Aliase

• wizcli

Projektgeschichte

The CLI is best understood as part of Wiz's rapid move from cloud-security startup to major cloud-security platform. Wiz launched in 2020 under co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport, reported reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue in August 2022, and signed a $32 billion all-cash acquisition agreement with Google on March 18, 2025. Google announced completion of the acquisition on March 11, 2026, with Wiz joining Google Cloud while maintaining the Wiz brand and multicloud commitment.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Wiz's platform adoption gives the CLI its enterprise relevance. Google's acquisition release said Wiz was trusted by 50% of the Fortune 100 and named customers including Shell, BMW, LVMH, Morgan Stanley, Mars, Salesforce, Takeda, Colgate-Palmolive, and Aon. The CLI is one route by which that platform reaches engineers directly, aligning security checks with pull requests, local development, and release pipelines.

Wie es verwendet wird

Teams use Wiz CLI to scan local code for misconfigurations, secrets, and vulnerabilities before merging; enforce CI/CD policies that block insecure infrastructure or images; scan VM and container artifacts; and generate SBOMs across build pipelines. Wiz's own product page frames this as a shared language between engineering and security teams, surfacing the same risk context developers would otherwise wait for security teams to triage.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package and build engineers, Wiz CLI is significant because it moves cloud-security context into the same pipeline steps that build, package, and publish artifacts. It overlaps with the modern package-security stack of IaC scanning, image scanning, vulnerability management, secrets detection, SBOM generation, and policy-as-code enforcement.

Zeitleiste

• 2020: Wiz launched as a cloud security company.
• 2022-08-10: Wiz announced $100 million ARR, saying it scaled from $1 million to $100 million ARR in 18 months.
• 2025-03-18: Google announced a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz for $32 billion.
• 2026-03-11: Google announced the acquisition had completed and that Wiz would join Google Cloud.

Quellen

• https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/google-agreement-acquire-wiz/
• https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2026-03-11-Google-Completes-Acquisition-of-Wiz
• https://www.wiz.io/authors/assaf-rappaport
• https://www.wiz.io/blog/100m-arr-in-18-months-wiz-becomes-the-fastest-growing-software-company-ever
• https://www.wiz.io/lp/wiz-cli