Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the letter W here :)
Wiz and Waze are both Israeli companies. Not that suspicious, I think it probably just sounds better in Hebrew.
Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
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Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#32As I mentioned at the time, the Wiz acquisition is the largest transfer of Israeli intelligence operatives into Big Tech in history.
Here's my full thread on it: https://x.com/paulbiggar/status/1902329587050148068
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#33For a second I thought it was Woz who was joining Google…
Maybe someone typod in an email "I want you to buy woz" the i and o are next to each other on the keyboard. ;)
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#34I don't understand Google's play here. Does it want Wiz to be a unique offer for GCP customers? or they will keep it cloud agnostic?
Wiz customer here, when fully implemented it provides an incredibly detailed and comprehensive view of your infrastructure. I'm curious how much of that information is going to pass between Wiz and Google Cloud product/sales. It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.
Is this like Darktrace?
Apparently the cybersec bigwigs at our company love it, but for me I have to write a detailed explaination why another 'incident report' the clueless cybersecurity guys keep bothering me with is actually nonsense.
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#35As I mentioned at the time, the Wiz acquisition is the largest transfer of Israeli intelligence operatives into Big Tech in history. Here's my full thread on it: https://x.com/paulbiggar/status/1902329587050148068
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Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#36Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the letter W here :)
Title should be: Wiz Waz
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#37Extra shade thrown at MoltBook (listed first) which was recently acq by Meta.
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#38Good time to remember that Wiz' VC was accused of paying bribes to CISOs to buy their portfolio's software (of which Wiz is one).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-b...
> Two security executives told Forbes they rejected overtures from Raanan’s team after hearing about the firm’s “menu” of compensation. “I was completely aghast. It was against my principles,” one said.
Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
#39I don't understand Google's play here. Does it want Wiz to be a unique offer for GCP customers? or they will keep it cloud agnostic?
Wiz customer here, when fully implemented it provides an incredibly detailed and comprehensive view of your infrastructure. I'm curious how much of that information is going to pass between Wiz and Google Cloud product/sales. It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.
>>It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.
I wonder if there are antitrust lawyers watching this closely. Would be really interesting to get their perspective on this.