Cyberattacks don’t give security teams much warning anymore. Google Cloud recently put a number to that reality: the gap between an initial breach and the next stage of an attack has shrunk from eight hours to 22 seconds flat. That’s the kind of statistic that changes how a room full of IT leaders thinks about security budgets. It’s also the backdrop for Endava’s decision to join the Wiz Partner Alliance, pairing up to help enterprises get ahead of cloud and AI security risks before damage compounds.
The deal combines Endava‘s cloud engineering and managed services work with Wiz’s security platform, which now operates inside Google Cloud. Enterprises running workloads across several cloud providers know the specific frustration this targets: security policies that hold up cleanly inside one platform tend to develop blind spots the moment data crosses into another. The gaps live at the seams, not in the center.
Endava’s CTO Matt Cloke flagged agentic AI as a particular pressure point worth watching. Autonomous AI agents now reach into data repositories, permissions, and systems in ways that existing security frameworks never accounted for. That reach demands tighter identity controls and governance covering the full AI ecosystem, not just the applications anyone thought to put on a list.
Through Wiz, security teams gain clearer visibility into risks across the development cycle, fixing problems before they ship rather than after customers notice them. Endava plans to support that with rapid cloud risk assessments, managed detection and response services, and embedding Wiz directly into development pipelines and AI workflows. The broader push is moving enterprises away from periodic reviews toward continuous monitoring throughout the AI lifecycle.
Nick Ross of Wiz framed the core tension plainly: enterprises want speed with AI and cloud, but customers need to trust what teams actually build. Those two things rarely feel compatible at the same time, and that’s the gap this partnership is sitting in.
