Endava's engineering-led entry into the Wiz Partner Alliance signals a shift in how cloud security gets delivered

Endava has joined the Wiz Partner Alliance, the global partner community built around Wiz's cloud and AI security platform, which is now part of Google Cloud. The group was already a Google Cloud Premier Partner and a Google Security Partner, and this third credential places it among only a handful of companies worldwide holding all three at once.

The collaboration, announced earlier this month, pairs Endava's cloud engineering and managed services with the Wiz platform, and it targets enterprises struggling to secure AI workloads that now run across a patchwork of cloud and SaaS environments.

The matter carries weight because the security stakes have risen faster than most enterprises can respond to. Google Cloud recently disclosed that the interval between an initial breach and the next stage of a cyberattack has compressed from eight hours to just 22 seconds, as the attack surface stretches well beyond the traditional network perimeter. For any organisation deploying autonomous agents that can reach into data repositories, systems and permissions, a slow or fragmented security response is no longer viable. That is the gap the partnership sets out to close, catching risks earlier in the AI lifecycle rather than after workloads go live.

Endava brings the engineers, not only the security analysts

What sets Endava apart within the Wiz community is that it does not come at the alliance from a purely security-first background. Andrew Rossiter, Google Cloud Unit - Global SVP at Endava, said most partners in the community are unable to act on what the platform surfaces. “Most Wiz partners today come from a security-first background, so they don't build or deploy software. This is where Endava stands out. Yes, we bring a security operations centre and security professionals, but also the engineers who build, deploy and manage that infrastructure. So, when Wiz flags an issue, we don't just raise the alert, but also fix it. And because we build software and infrastructure ourselves, we can design it security-first from day one. That matters enormously as AI adoption accelerates.”

The value flows in both directions. Rossiter described the platform as giving Endava a fresh perspective on infrastructure it was already managing. “Wiz, in turn, gives us a different lens on infrastructure. We have an example wherein after deploying it for a prominent regional client, it surfaced thousands of issues they were previous unaware of. That visibility is critical when your infrastructure is now up against things like frontier models.”

For customers already running both Endava's managed services and the Wiz platform separately, Rossiter said the combination collapses two workstreams into one. The engineering capability, he explained, “affords us the ability to actually remediate and fix what Wiz uncovers, and to build platforms that carry fewer issues in the first place. For customers engaging with both Endava and Wiz, that now means a single, more joined-up route to resolution.”

A co-delivery model rather than a referral arrangement

Rossiter said the two companies are building something far deeper than a lead-passing relationship. “It's much more than a referral arrangement. I think of it akin to a joint business venture with both partners investing, and both partners benefiting. So, it's a co-delivery model where we jointly going to market with a proposition that the client actually understands and needs, and one we can deliver together. That also means embedding Wiz into our managed services, our development pipelines and our AI workflows.”

The commercial architecture is still taking shape, partly because Wiz's own integration into Google Cloud remains in progress. Rossiter indicated that elements of the go-to-market would track the joint plans of Google Cloud and Wiz, while Endava layers its own bundling on top. That bundling centres on remediation and monitoring delivered together, and on multi-cloud coverage, an area where both companies see their strength lying beyond any single platform. He offered a concrete illustration of the consolidation on offer, noting that within an agentic software development lifecycle a client might otherwise need roughly 25 products, a figure that maps down to around seven when set against Wiz's capabilities, including Wiz itself.

Three partner tracks, held simultaneously by few

The alliance sits alongside Endava's existing status as a Google Cloud Premier Partner and a Google Security Partner, and Rossiter was careful to distinguish the three as separate commitments rather than a single escalating relationship. “They're actually three separate tracks; each is its own distinct partner programme within Google, with its own requirements, certifications and commitments. What makes it exciting is how few companies globally hold all three simultaneously — it's genuinely a handful worldwide. Being a Google Cloud Premier Partner, a Google Security Partner, and now part of the Wiz Partner Alliance, particularly alongside our AI deployment work, puts us in very select company. There are very few organisations anywhere that can bring all of that together in one package for a client.”

That scarcity is the crux of Endava's pitch. As multi-cloud estates grow more complex and agentic AI widens the systems and permissions that autonomous software can touch, the ability to consolidate advisory, engineering, security operations and platform visibility under a single provider becomes a real advantage. It also points to where enterprise cloud security is heading. The old model of scattered, one-off checks is giving way to continuous oversight across the AI lifecycle, where the partner that raises the alarm is now expected to fix the problem too.

Security as the foundation for AI adoption

Executives on both sides tied the collaboration to the idea that AI ambition cannot outrun security assurance. Nick Ross, VP of EMEA & LATAM Channels & Alliances at Wiz, said the appetite for cloud and AI innovation has to be matched by confidence in the resulting services. “Security is a foundational layer of the AI era,” Ross said. “Enterprises want to innovate with AI and cloud, but they also need confidence that the services they create are secure, resilient and trusted by their customers. The valuable experience Endava brings to the Wiz Partner Alliance will help more organisations turn cloud security visibility into action across the complex, multi-cloud environments they operate every day.”

Matt Cloke, CTO at Endava, placed the partnership within the governance challenges that agentic AI introduces. “As enterprises adopt agentic AI, autonomous agents can access data repositories, systems and permissions across interconnected environments,” Cloke said. “This expanding reach is increasing pressure on organisations to rethink how they strengthen data governance, identity controls and consistent security policies across their AI ecosystems. Wiz completes a critical part of that picture by giving customers the visibility, context and risk prioritisation needed to embed security into AI and cloud programmes from the start.

Combined with Endava's cloud engineering and managed services expertise, this partnership helps us provide organisations with a practical route to secure AI adoption across their multi-cloud environments. Endava, listed on the NYSE under the ticker DAVA, reported 11,255 employees as of 31 March 2026 across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, serving clients spanning payments, insurance, banking and capital markets, technology, media, telecommunications, healthcare, mobility, retail and consumer goods.